A
column in today’s Tribune sports quoted NFL Network producer Mike Muriano, who
said, “Fans are starving for more football content.” Muriano is amazed that fans will turn on
their televisions to watch college players perform at the annual scouting
combine before the draft. Me, too. It’s like dogs and ponies got together and
fooled humans into doing demeaning tricks.
The
NFL is like cancer, or a mall, always growing, until….Baseball and football
used to be able to share the calendar: spring, summer and the first three weeks
of autumn for baseball, fall and winter for football. No more.
The NFL has nurtured an insatiable fan base that will watch all the
time. I just wonder what will happen if
fans stop encouraging their own sons from playing the game for fear of
concussions. Who’ll show up at the
combine? Maybe the NFL will have
developed the necessary androids by then.
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