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Here is my take for what itâ€™s worth. I wanted to see two good games yesterday, just wanted to watch two good games. I saw a Texas team that should not have been in the game, and the big goose egg when the final whistle blew made my point.
I was then hoping for one good game, and I got a major cluster arrangement, not real good football, fans that threw stuff at an injured player being carted off the field. I saw a coach that should have removed a volatile player before the 3rd quarter and stupid juvenile coaches and players all the way through.

Because I am a sunny optimist, I am hoping for two good games today.

Having the perspective of someone who, years ago, did follow professional football as a "fan," but who no longer does, I would suggest that you will be seeing more and more of this sort of thing. While the athletic talent of the players may, overall, be better than it ever has been, the number of ill-disciplined, utterly self-absorbed, and (not to put too fine a point on it) low-IQ players that are to found on professional rosters is increasing. At the same time, the coaches themselves seem to be exhibiting these same characteristics.

Ironically, it may well be that the NFL itself has never been more popular. But, to my eye, the actual product on the field has been deteriorating for some time now. Players, coaches, front office management, ownership, you name it: like so much else in our popular culture, the rot has set in.