There are losses, and then there are existential losses — the kind that don’t just beat you on the scoreboard, but sit you down afterward and ask uncomfortable questions about your relationship with professional football.
This was one of those.
In “Nix Picks Nixed,” Chris and Dave come off the Broncos loss sounding less like angry fans and more like two men slowly realizing they’ve spent decades emotionally investing in a sport explicitly designed to betray them. The Packers didn’t just lose to Denver — they unraveled. A game that felt controlled, winnable, even promising, collapsed under the weight of interceptions, injuries, dropped opportunities, and that familiar sinking realization: oh… this again.