Who is good this season? Back in the days before the internet existed in a way that a kid growing up in Ohio could experience meaningfully answering that question meant getting the paper and opening it up. Find the sports section on Monday and find those two columns that told you, definitively, which team was the best. It didn’t matter that I’d never seen Virginia Tech play, the gathered wisdom of the Associated Press told me that they were better than Minnesota.
Things are different now. As I type this my son is using a mobile device to set his fantasy lineup for week 17.