I don’t watch the NBA or MLB very often anymore, but one thing that I do like to do is keep track of the big deals that happen around the trade deadline in those leagues. The trade deadline is perhaps the most exciting single day in either sport -- which native Supersonics fans could forget the day that Gary Payton was dealt for Ray Allen? Or the moment that the Seattle Mariners actually traded for none other than Heathcliff Slocumb?
Goodbye forever, Derek Lowe! We won’t regret this!
That moment does not exist in the NFL. Teams rarely make trades that aren’t draft pick for draft pick, and even when they do, they don’t usually happen in the middle of a season.