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For A Marginally Improved Outlook: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
Today’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 NFL
This 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 NFL
There 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!...
The Abyss Also Gazes Into You: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL Playoffs
After Saturday’s top-notch, electrifying games, you are probably champing at the bit for more hot football action today. Fans of true underdogs got a real treat Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night was a checkdown-passing aficionado’s dream come true. I mean who could possibly look away after such...
Woe To The Land: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL Playoffs
Big choices today, folks. On the one hand, you could do something fun and enriching and squeeze a little enjoyment out of your weekend; on the other hand, you could subject yourself to the misery of what might be the worst playoff quarterback matchup in NFL history. Tough call!...
Stick To The Plan: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
The challenge of looking away from the NFL has two parts....
Scott Tolzien In Primetime: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
All the attention soaked up by the presidential election was one of the possible reasons for the NFL’s season-long ratings malaise, but a few weeks later, nationally broadcast games still aren’t where they used to be....
Clean Football Is Still Football: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
This week was an interesting test case for the NFL in this era of increased scrutiny and public skepticism. The league news was mostly clear of the kinds of self-inflicted embarrassments and setbacks that have become so routine during the Roger Goodell era. For the first time in what seems like a lo...
Keep It In The Toilet: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
It’s like the NFL has a checklist of possible fuck-ups and self-inflicted public-relations disasters, and they make a point of marking as many items as possible each week. This pattern makes disliking the NFL easy and fun, if you’re interested in giving it a shot....
Man In Charge: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
The NFL will probably never fire Roger Goodell. If you’re waiting for that day to come, don’t waste your time. Some day, years from now, Goodell is going to retire as commissioner, and there will be an unbearable period of exaggerated, rose-colored reflection on the passing of a heroic, legendary f...
A Sinking Ship: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
Maybe you’ve heard, but the NFL’s television ratings are sinking like a stone....
Moral Ineptitude: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
The extent of the NFL’s failure to learn any meaningful lessons from the several years’ worth of ass-kickings it’s absorbed over its handling of domestic violence is really something. ...
Spare Your Eyeballs: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
NFL uniforms are fucking hideous now. Look at this shit:...
The Already-Enormous Body Count: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
Ah yes, Week 4—the first week of NFL byes and something like the quarter mark of the NFL regular season. Always a fine time to check in on player health around the league. After all, bye weeks are when teams get a week off to rest up and heal. How’s everyone doing?...
Don't Be A Mark: Your Guide To Ignoring The NFL Today
Man. Personal seat licenses are quite the racket....