this year after week 2 of the nfl I was watching espn late and they were doing a full-on deep dive on what chances teams statistically have of making the playoffs after going 0-2!!! like week 3 and you are like “shit, can’t lose next week…”

what is fascinating to me as a european living in the US is that NFL is absolute garbage of a sport and it is insane that other sports are not more popular. NFL games are 3 hours of which 2 hours and 50 minutes not a damn fucking thing is happening. the TV broadcast people make more money than all but handful of players on each team (understandably so, they have to entertain you for 2 hours and 50 minutes of nothingness), there is just commercial after commercial… like absolute madness the sport is actually popular to watch. I thought maybe fantasy and gambling are main reasons but you can do both without watching the games