This is like the steroid era in baseball. Every record smashed, fans excited about high scoring affairs(boycotters not, of course). Eventually, like the steriod era of baseball, it will crash. Likely the NFL will come to be viewed like arena football (or even better, the NBA when zone defenses were illegal and superstars of the 1990s were guaranteed a one-on-one match up with everyone else being used solely to draw away all the other defenders); This will be because the chess-like strategic interplay between offense and defense has been legislated out, as well as the smash mouth, hard hitting aspect that made it exciting to watch a goal line stand or a critical fourth down. Bombs away football will ultimately become kind of boring once the novelty wears off because it’s not really football.
Best football game I had seen in some time:
Last Saturday’s DI-FCS playoff game where Duquesne went down to Baltimore and beat a heavily favored Towson State team in a monsoon. At that level the game still means something to the players.
Last year’s Army-Navy game in the snow was outstanding too.
“Chicks dig the long ball”