I think I’ve decided that what I like about the NFL is the league’s ability to make it feel like a new season of your favorite show without any of the wayward, Season 2 of The Wire divergences that upset a sizable number of viewers (I happened to love the docks and Frank Sobotka, but know that I am in the minority). Through some kind of mass syndrome, teams trick themselves into different stages of the same disease—Going all in with a rookie quarterback! Spending top dollar to pretend players still want to come here! Trading all the good players for draft picks! Trading all the draft picks for good players!—which means the actual content only passes from locale to locale like a kind of fog.
We all like something different. I happen to enjoy people getting their hopes up.
