I watched about 5 min if the last Falcons game, I was channel surfing, and dozed off. I just don't care for the NFL.
Nor the NBA. I do get pretty excited by real sports like wrestle mania.
The NFL is beginning show several unfortunate parallels to the NBA.
First, the NFL’s regular season games are noticeably more unwatchable this season, recalling the NBA’s past decade (plus) of lower quality regular season games. And among other reasons, such as the truncated pre-season, NFL players are starting to take after NBA stars and pine for “load-management.”
Second, NBA headlines are driven not by actual game play but by all the off-court drama to the point that when the NBA is discussed on sports radio or ESPN editorial shows its only discussed in terms of its endless sideshows. Kyrie Irving’s bizarre views, Kevin Durant’s burner accounts on twitter, Draymond Green fighting in practice, the Celtics suspending their coach, Dwayne Wade parenting a non-binary child. The public relates to the NBA the same way they do Kanye West in the sense that though many people listen to Kanye’s music, the greater public probably hears more about Kanye’s controversies. Similarly, though many watch the NBA, we hear far more about the NBA’s ongoing player drama.
And unfortunately I’m starting to see this with the NFL as well, where the overarching NFL coverage is shifting from discussing the on-field product (admittedly dull this year) to filling the airwaves with too much Antonio Brown or Tom Brady’s divorce or Aaron Rodgers’ Ayahuasca retreats.
Thankfully we still have college football as a real sport. No NFL game has come close to the entertainment of last month’s Alabama-Tennessee, and I can’t wait to watch Tennessee-Georgia tomorrow.
