It’s remarkable that just a few years ago, amid the league’s ratings slump and the rise of American sports-political tumult, we were talking about football fatigue. Perhaps the lay fan was exhausted by the idea of a Sunday marathon only to be followed by a late-night Monday football game and chased by a punchless Thursday matchup featuring a pair of teams dreading the physical toll on their already achy bones.
And now, upon the players ratifying the CBA in a narrow “Yes” vote last night, we have been gifted the very thing we seemed to be saying we didn’t want—or at the least were not sure about.