Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Football?

Andrew: Hello and welcome to Scramble for the Ball, where this week your humble Scramblenauts are stung by the cruelty of life. Last Sunday, likely the longest day of the football calendar, neither of us was in much of a position to watch the games. While the more hardworking of your Scramble team was evoking the spirit of Joey Tribbiani, lurking in a corner at a funeral and sneaking subtle peeks at his smartphone, this foreign layabout was finally earning his keep, hauling and packing as I'm forced to move house in the middle of the football season. There are only two days in the season that NFL football is played in the afternoon, my time. It's just typical that both of those are the two Sundays of the year that I am not available in the afternoon to watch it.

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