Ethan Strauss

I want to be respectful.

I want to use just proper nomenclature here.

But I think the point that was about to be made,

Well, they give us the quarterback, and they make us follow the ball.

Would you just let me rationalize my stupid bias that was formed on the basis of watching one sport growing up versus the other sport?

Would you just allow me to do that?

No, these are all fair points, but I think the centering, if you will, of the quarterback anchors us in a way.

Now, the crazy thing about American football is

is that it is actually shown to us in this incomplete fashion that theoretically is bad, but as Chuck Klosterman has argued, is actually good.

Apparently we want that.

We should be watching NFL games with a Madden angle where we can see everything.

But we don't want that.

We want this other crazy thing where we follow the ball in the air and we have no idea what's going on.

And it's like that game show, Is It Cake?

Are you aware of Is It Cake?

Is this something that you know about?

Yeah.

Most long passes in the NFL, it's just a miniature episode of Is It Cake?

The ball is in the air.

Is it an interception?