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   nfl-fans/   
      
   One-stop shopping. Five minutes and out.   
      
   That’s all one needs to know about Roger Goodell’s “It’s all about our   
   fans” claim. Sunday afternoon on CBS, for example. The man is   
   relentlessly, shamelessly full of it. Good work — for a reported $63   
   million per — if you can get it.   
      
   Sunday, in a must-win, can’t-lose, can’t-tie game between the Steelers and   
   Ravens, the last minutes of overtime were lost to viewers in several   
   cities, including the nation’s largest TV market — that’s us! — after   
   audiences had invested 3 hours and 20 minutes in it.   
      
   Similar incidents have happened and for many years, yet this one was   
   different, begging for cutting viewers a break, as sticking with the usual   
   plan benefitted no one.   
      
   Most everyone could see this coming, as games including Jets-Bills and   
   Patriots-Dolphins were soon to start. Surely, the NFL, this being the   
   final week of the season within a league known for last-minute TV schedule   
   flexing, would on this day be flexible.   
      
   Or, if not, CBS would defy illogical broadcasting rules to allow its   
   audience to witness the final three minutes in a big game and, as   
   advertised, perhaps the last game played by Ben Roethlisberger.   
      
   Whatever, I’d have chosen common sense over abuse of an audience that had   
   already invested more than three hours in watching a game’s outcome to   
   throw in a few more minutes to complete its mission and tacit promise.   
      
   What was Goodell going to do, publicly complain that CBS treated its   
   viewers right by best serving all audiences? Punish CBS by not cashing its   
   checks?   
      
   Here, en route to the kickoff of Jets-Bills, viewers who had the Steelers-   
   Ravens yanked from beneath them, next had to watch three commercials — two   
   of them for NFL-certified gambling operations, further establishing those   
   who’d been watching Steelers-Ravens as Goodell Era suckers.   
      
   And just before CBS was forced to leave that OT game, Mike Tomlin’s   
   Steelers again risked losing — or not winning — a game to a player who had   
   no better idea of what was going on other than his bloated sense of self.   
      
   With 3:27 left in OT, Pittsburgh receiver Diontae Johnson, after being   
   shoved out of bounds by safety Geno Stone, tried to start a sideline   
   fight! The game? Didn’t matter to him!   
      
   For what it’s worth, that sideline carried Goodell’s latest social   
   messaging reminding viewers, for a second straight season, that those who   
   watch NFL games are mostly presumed to be uncivilized bigots.   
      
   The day before, Goodell’s “It’s All About Our Fans” also was on display.   
   Two games were played, Chiefs at Broncos at 4:30, Cowboys at Eagles at   
   8:20. Both, logically, on behalf of “Our Fans,” should have started   
   several hours earlier — especially before a Saturday, mostly at home,   
   winter audience.   
      
   The Eagles, condemned by the NFL and ESPN to play a late-night winter game   
   instead of an afternoon game on a wide-open Saturday, are among those   
   Goodell “good investments” PSL teams.   
      
   This playoff weekend, more “It’s All About Our Fans”:   
      
   The best eligible climate in which to play an outdoor January night game,   
   Tampa, will host Eagles-Buccaneers on Sunday — at 1 p.m. Huh?   
      
   The worst climate to play an outdoor January night game, Buffalo, will   
   host Patriots-Bills on Saturday — at 8:15 p.m., when it’s expected to be   
   no warmer than 10 degrees. Brilliant, Roger, brilliant!   
      
   At more than $60 million per year to reach such decisions, if Goodell were   
   any better to NFL fans, he’d buy back their “good investments” PSLs at 3   
   cents on the dollar.   
      
   Who’s Rex to Judge anyone?   
   ESPN’s Rex Ryan this week ripped Joe Judge for a lack of class. That’s   
   rich.   
      
   Ryan’s class included the episode that happened after he became head coach   
   of the Bills following his seasons with the Jets. After Jets QB Geno   
   Smith’s jaw was broken by a sucker punch from teammate IK Enemkpali,   
   Ryan’s Bills signed the defensive end.   
      
   Ryan then sent Enemkpali, a two-seasons NFL sub, to serve as a coin-toss   
   captain for the Bills before a game against the Jets — a classless,   
   unprofessional, childish move.   
      
   Post-play preening has become so obligatory that Saturday, after his team   
   retained the ball on a roughing-the-kicker call, Broncos punter Sam Martin   
   rose to perform a first-down gesture. Wonder if he’d have done the same   
   while being wheeled off on a gurney?   
      
   Naturally, this NIL (name, image, likeness) ruling — anything that   
   involves money — has driven college sports lower, more seedy. NIL has   
   allegedly already been misapplied by colleges as free-agent pools for high   
   school recruits. It’s a new form of payola that will further render   
   college athletics a scam.   
      
   I wonder how many NBA broadcasters — TV and radio, local and national —   
   recognize that the NBA is sinking under the weight of 3-point bombings,   
   that they’ve replaced strategic basketball, but are unable to say so. Put   
   it this way: How does one classify a game with 80-90 3s a good, well-   
   played game?   
      
   CBS is still posting color-coded, vertically boxed graphics giving viewers   
   about 12 seconds to read a list of a QB’s previous 10 passes and whether   
   they were complete (and for how far) or incomplete. Apparently, saying,   
   “He’s eight-for-his-past-10” would be too easy.   
      
   With Dobie gone, it won’t be the same down at the Gillis Grocery Store.   
   Think I’ll go downtown with Maynard and watch ’em tear down the old   
   Endicott Building.   
      
   Too many useless analysts, too few good ones   
      
   Our Man of the Week is Fox’s understated and steady Chris Myers. During   
   Washington-Giants, he risked further employment by eschewing the   
   opportunity to say that Antonio Gibson “is running downhill” to go with   
   “straight ahead.” Imagine!   
      
   Myers also took a needed late-game swipe at Giants WR Kenny Golladay for   
   stepping out of bounds after catching a pass with no one near him. Myers’   
   booth mate, Daryl “Moose” Johnston, who hadn’t stopped speaking all game —   
   often noting that the Giants have no offense — had chosen silence after   
   Golladay’s premature surrender.   
      
   That brings us to ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, a former plain-talker who has   
   transitioned to genuine pigskin gibberish. Saturday during Chiefs-Broncos,   
   he substituted 2-yard and 3-yard “gains” with the long-form vague, “made   
   positive yardage.”   
      
   He first explained Patrick Mahomes, the 2018 NFL MVP: “[Coach] Andy Reid   
   has developed this offense around Patrick Mahomes’ versatility.” Who knew?   
      
   After the game, ESPN analyst Randy Moss noted the Chiefs’ go-ahead   
   touchdown was “a game-changer.”   
      
   Two nights later, during the Georgia-Alabama CFP championship, Herbstreit   
   chose to talk the entire game, rendering anything that might have been   
   worth hearing lost to his own devices.   
      
      
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