There is at least a decade-long running joke among NBA fans that, especially in the Big-3 and superteam/LeBron-is-shadow-commissioner era we’re in now, basketball fans love the offseason more than they enjoy watching the actual games.
NFL fans, by contrast, usually aren’t quite as bad about acting like if you don’t sign all the players and trade for KD in the offseason, you may as well not even bother showing up for Week 1, but there’s still a notable percentage of every fanbase that acts like winning the Super Bowl is as simple as collecting the best Pokémon.