The NFL season is long. No one is going to feel bad for those of us with a dream job to cover the league professionally but around this time every year, the weekly content churn turns into a slog. A handful of teams turn unwatchable, some just hellaciously dull. Some storylines become tedious to the point of madness. We can’t cast those pests out to see for another month-plus. They continue to impose their presence upon us.
However, what keeps us engaged and hungry for each morsel of a game the NFL world has to offer is the pure joy the game brings.