I cannot watch the current ‘product’ produced by the NFL...from the broadcast booth to the playing field...I find it smarmy in-crowd smugfest full of pampered players and owners. It reeks!
FWIW, if I were chained to a chair and forced to watch either the NBA or the NFL on TV, I would choose the NFL without even having to think about it. If I could get the chains unlocked on the condition that I had to attend an NBA game, I would choose to stay chained to that chair.
Everything is jargon, they bury you in graphics (many, if not most, of which are inane), they condone the most classless behavior (as Mushnick notes.) It’s utterly upside down.
I think you are on to something. The NFL may have jumped the sharked a while ago.