Chuck Klosterman

And then there's this time when you can think about what you saw, what you will see next.

What was the meaning of that?

Maybe the analyst will describe what we actually saw in a way that we couldn't comprehend.

Or maybe I'll hate the analyst and think he's an idiot.

Sure.

Either way, I win.

Or...

You can think about something else.

You can talk to somebody about something that's not involved with the actual football game, or you can talk about the football game.

This experience, which seems like it should be a mistake.

It should be a mistake that something that lasts that long has that little amount of action.

This is one of these things that like,

Like it's one of the many counterintuitive things about football and that the TV experience is great despite the fact that it would never get through a focus group.

The fact that somebody said the main view you will have in a football game most of the time will not show you all the players.

You will not be able to see the free safeties.

When the quarterback drops back and throws the ball, you will have a moment where you will have no idea if the guy is open or covered.

Like these things that seem like they should be problems.

actually create this sort of internal psychological tension that makes this experience so enriching.

I really believe that football, the reason that it is the best thing television kind of has ever sort of been built with, is because even a bad football game is weirdly watchable.

in a way that isn't true about other things.