How the NFL Threatens Us With the Schedule

People care WAY more about the official NFL schedule releases than they should, but I kind of get it. And I kind of get it because it’s NOT just a list of who plays who, because the NFL schedule is loaded with minefields, and the NFL loves nothing more than threatening all of us with all of their nonsense. And they have SO MUCH NONSENSE to threaten us with.

Baseball can’t really do this as they simply need to cram all 162 games into the time frame allotted, with only the Fourth of July and Memorial Day standing out as holidays to work with or around. While basketball has Christmas Day, they also have so many games that there’s a limit to how much nonsense they can inject into the scheduling…