For 24 hours at least, Hull City could bask in the glory of sitting top of the Championship after Saturday's 2-1 win over Norwich City at the MKM Stadium.
Blackburn Rovers became the party poopers on Sunday by dislodging them from that perch, but for a day at least, it felt good.
Yes, we're only three games into this fledgling season and with 43 more matches to go, a tremendous amount of water will yet pass beneath the Humber Bridge before the dust settles on the 2022/23 campaign next May.
Nobody is getting carried away with league positions. City have already amassed seven points from their opening three games which is a stark improvement on last season's efforts when it took them until a 2-0 win over Middlesbrough on October 2 to reach that mark, but it's more than results alone that are changing minds and winning hearts.