If your sporting life revolves around the NFL, then you must be more excited than the fat kid who just found out the McRib is back. This upcoming weekend of football deliciousness has been eighteen long weeks in the making and I hope you appreciate it because weekends like this one only come around once a year. Here’s a breakdown of what are historically the best weekends in American sports.
I can pretty much fix the things that are wrong with football. It just takes a little tough love and enforcing a few rules, using some common sense. Football is just like life and sometimes you get into a rut and continue to do lame things out of force of habit or because everybody else does it or because change is too hard. It’s not too hard, in fact, when I clap my hands all the fixes outlined below will magically happen.
Did you catch the game that the NFL televised almost completely using the SkyCam? Companies like the NFL do these kinds of things from time to time in the name of progress. They experiment with their product, in essence, change the recipe, hoping that a handful of people who wouldn’t normally be interested might buy or watch. When the NFL decides to change the way it televises games, when Coke decides to change the ingredients in its cola, what they’re really saying is “getting new customers is more important than satisfying my existing customers.” That’s a miscalculation.