Amazon pays $1billion per season for this. The Colts-Broncos hobo ho-down cost Jeff Bezos about $60 million. Life is high priced and you get what you pay for.
Baseball, basketball, and hockey have long seasons. Even though a team is good, there are nights in July and February when winter sports don't get much attention. There is a constant rhythm to it all, whether they are in Cincinnati, Portland, orOttawa. The regular season enters a valley of indifference. That is sort of the point of the games. There will be a lot of information about getting through it. It beats the players down when they do it all again the next night. Fans can't beat the amount of games. The end of the season is when everyone wakes up. There are a few games where players, fans, and everyone else is asking themselves, "What are we doing here?"
Football should be the opposite of that. Only 17 of these things exist. Fans of the Broncos and Colts were waiting for four days after last night's sad event. They might still admit they are Broncos and Colts fans. There are the same intense meetings, the same intricate planning, and the same weaknesses on both sides. The press conferences, the meeting with the broadcast, the production of Amazon hyping this game are just some of the things that happened. Football games are supposed to be fun. If you don't plan around it, you stop your day for it. In the National Football League, there is no rainy Wednesday night or cold night in Buffalo, Atlanta or Jacksonville. Every game is meant to be a statement of something. For the centering of the week, fans tailgate, travel, and wave their towels.
You get that, then.
You have a festival of incompetence and silliness on your hands because of all that planning and ceremony. It is not supposed to be on the football schedule. The players are getting ready to play 17 games in a row in order to be in the right state to play. They engage in a car crash almost every play, their career hanging by a thread, only to see Matt Ryan throw a ball into a Broncos meeting. The Broncos lost the game because they gave Russell Wilson the chance to throw two in the end zone.
The tackle from the Colts was called for 48 holdings. He did the warm up and stretching before the game, but only after studying all week and lifting all those weights. Fans paid a lot of money to watch him do it.
Somewhere late in the second quarter or early in the third, after these teams have been violently throwing themselves at each other to literally go nowhere, where the veil falls off and we realize that football can be as bad and boring as any other sport. Everyone is trying to make this great, but they can't. None of the schemes, routes, and pressures shown to the players by the coaches go where they are supposed to. You can see a drag on the steps of the receiver after this point. When the quarterback walks up to the line after breaking the huddle, he looks over at the defense and knows he is about to have some large men sit on his head again.
The game deflates into a beer fart on a frat house couch because of all the things that have been turned up to 11 in and around the game. The intensity on all parts of the field becomes meaningless. The thing collapses on itself.
It isn't possible to match it. It is a sport that consumes itself as a result. If you're not a Bears fan, you only get this bad a few times a year. You have to take in all that it has to offer. It has magic in it.
MLS was on one Wednesday night. The goofiest patch of play you will see in any soccer game is from the Charlotte FC- Columbus Crew game.
Is Lucas Zelarayan going to try this free kick if he hadn't watched Ben Bender try it? I think Zalarayan was playing a game of horse that nobody knew about.
Then in Miami.
There is something in the water. Maybe they should have shared with someone else.
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