By now, perhaps you've reached a strange kind of peace with it all: the quickening pace of the game, the tactics that get recalibrated after every play changes the odds like each card dealt at a blackjack table. The set of best practices shouted by fans in every stadium or repeated on every broadcast like a preflight safety briefing, about when to step out of bounds, when it's OK to work the middle of the field, when to spike the ball.
The cautious glances at the stadium scoreboard or corner-of-the-screen graphic displaying the game clock and timeouts remaining.