This week, Washington Post columnist John Kelly has been sharing stories of people with interesting life goals — like today’s piece about a guy who has visited every county in the United States.

Seems like a good opportunity to at least partially take care of a blog topic that my brother can attest I’ve been meaning to tackle for more than a year.

My crazy goal — which would require winning the lottery for both free time and funds — is to see every Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball Association team play a home game…all in the same year (or a 12-month period).  Plus see the championship-clinching game for each league and their respective all-star game.

I think this would be the greatest year a person could possibly have.  I’d be going to games all the time, traveling to every major city in the country and gaining at least 700 pounds from eating delicious stadium food.  Logistically, obviously it would be quite a challenge, but in a way I think it would be really fun to figure out how to get all the games in.

Certain sports would be easy.  Baseball teams play the most games and also have a block of the year all to themselves.  Plus with the way they play on back-to-back days, and at different times of the day, it’s not hard to imagine seeing the Mets play on a Saturday night, the Yankees at 1 p.m. Sunday and then the Phillies at 8 p.m. Sunday.  That’s a good chunk of the league in just 24 hours.

Football is the real challenge.  Without taking the risk of trying to guess which teams I think would end up hosting a playoff game, geography would be my biggest friend in safely hitting my goal in the regular season.  I envision trying to hit 1 p.m. games nearest the city where the Sunday night game is being played — or at least in a city where there is an easy flight to that site.  But the NFL also seems to be making the schedule even easier, adding more Thursday night games and continuing to have Saturday games later in the year.  It’s like they know I’m coming.

When my Mega Millions numbers hit, this is happening.

[Some time I’ll actually do the long-awaited sports bucket list post featuring what I’d like to see at those games.]