Originally Posted by Mutt

I love the NFL, i hate that it's only 16 games a year BUT that's what makes each week, each game so important. That the entire schedule minus one game takes place on Sunday has made every Sunday from September to February into a national holiday for tens of millions of people.

The sport itself if you understand it enough is brutal and violent and artistic and graceful at once. The strategy is complex and fascinating - it's chess, it's a war game. I've been watching it my entire life and I still don't understand a lot of it and I don't want to - I don't want to be dissecting each play and each position, takes the fun out of it. I don't want to be a coach, I'm happy being a fan.

The NFL is also smart enough to tweak the rules so that there's an emphasis on offense, some old school football fans don't like that but 10-3 games don't cut it for the average fans. We want offense, we want touchdowns.

And then there's parity amongst teams which inspired the famous quote 'on any given Sunday' - every year there are surprise teams that rise up and good teams that unravel into mediocrity and worse.