Cartoon-like Titans, Seahawks game the norm in Roger Goodell’s NFL

Recall watching Saturday morning cartoons to discover the chase scenes had repetitive landscapes with duplicate backgrounds — the same mountain, tree or house — seen on a reel?

That’s too much like watching sports in 2023. We know what’s coming and where we’re headed. But only dark comedy awaits.

This past week was a lot like watching Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner chase each other past the same cactus and strewn rocks until the scene is resolved with a sudden, violent and senseless end, predicated only on running out of time, no creative value to disrupt the descent.

That’s why many of us began to prefer Bullwinkle & Co. for its wit, for treating us as if we were thinking kids.

To that end, the NFL as a thinking fan’s game is trending dead as the NFL has copied MLB’s plan of confusing the declining numbers of baseball fans as to where and when (and for how much more) playoff and World Series games would appear — another short-sighted, anything-for-a-TV-buck treatment o...
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