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For A Marginally Improved Outlook: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFLToday’s counterprogramming schedule is light on sports, with club soccer taking a break this weekend, but the NBA preseason is ramping up, there’s playoff baseball, a Star Wars marathon, a fair amount of pre-Halloween programming, and, hey, Blade Runner 2049 is really, really, really fucking good. T...

A Lovely And Sports-Filled Fall Sunday: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFLThis is a really good time of the year for non-football fans. The weather is lovely, and the sports are good: European soccer is still sorting itself out, so you’ve got circumstances like Real Madrid starting their La Liga campaign like a bunch of busters, and Real Betis looking awesome; the golf se...

Boycotters, Welcome: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFLThere may never have been a better time in the modern history of the NFL to be a competing network. NFL ratings appear to be down, although no one is exactly clear on why, or for how long it might last. But a segment of sports fans you might otherwise consider among the NFL’s base—dumbasses, basical...

Better Sports Options: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL

We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15...

Sunday Counterprogramming: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL

At last, the NFL season is upon us, in all its screaming lunacy. Many people are fans of the NFL, and football, but a great and growing number of people have lost their appetite for the NFL’s special brew of grating self-importance, brazen pandering, and grueling self-destruction. These roundups—a l...

You Will Fail: Today's Guide To Ignoring The Super Bowl

You there. Yes, you. Guess what you will not be doing tonight. You will not be skipping the Super Bowl. Sorry....

No One Needs The Pro Bowl: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL

Any faithful list of activities preferable to watching the NFL Pro Bowl must include pastimes like slamming your head in a car door, eating hair, and broiling your dick....

The Stadium Squeeze: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL

If you thought watching Stan Kroenke, Dean Spanos, and Mark Davis agitate, bitch, and bully their way through stadium and relocation negotiations was nauseating, just wait until Dan Snyder kicks his new stadium plans into gear. It’s coming!...