My wife's family are into sports to a ridiculous level. Players could rape kids on the field and they'd still watch the games. Some people have no sense, at all.
Sad to say that’s my wife. If she had a sister, I’d guess we are BILs.
Nothing short of WW III is going to make her give up sports and ESPN.
Walk up to one of them (the smallest one :-) ).
Give them the middle finger.
As they start to get angry with you, say—hey, that’s what the NFL players are doing to you—about time you got angry with them!
Your wife’s family describes many sports wackos I know.
If it’s a ballplayer, an automatic pass no matter what.