Welcome to the third week of the NFL. While it’s not yet clear if your favorite team is great, it’s definitely clear whether or not your favorite team is fun. And I would argue that it’s better to be fun than great. When you become great, you just become a Chiefs fan, ignoring your budding young family to argue with internet trolls about the favorability of officiating in your games. Or like Patriots fans, not spending time with aging grandparents as they research the ideal gas law to disprove a deflation scenario.
Fun is being a Colts fan right now and knowing that, at any moment, Anthony Richardson could do something you’ve never seen before. It’s like living on a planet where comets narrowly swing by humanity on a regular basis. Fun is being a Packers fan and watching Malik Willis do what the genetic gods put him on Earth to do. Fun is being a Vikings fan, winning games with Josh Dobbs last year and Sam Darnold this year, watching quarterbacks walk off the field completely blank after getting a look at Brian Flores’s defense.
