re: Anybody else losing interest in football as a sport?

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I'm losing interest in sports in general outside of the NHL

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This is a smart sports fan.

Switch to hockey. Less bullshite there than any other professional sport.

No

NFL has sucked for many years, college is still somewhat watchable.

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Switch to hockey. Less bullshite there than any other professional sport.

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We don’t all live where they play hockey… actually this is Tigerdroppings. Almost none of us do

I’m enjoying college

I’ve found I’m barely interested in the NFL this season

Friend,

I quit following football about a decade ago, having reached the melancholy conclusion that I had only so many Sabbaths allotted to me and ought not squander them upon a spectacle increasingly indistinguishable from Mammon in shoulder pads. I remember sitting in our sitting room one autumn Sunday, Bible and BOCP beside me, while the television blared its usual liturgy of touchdowns, beer, liquor, and men behaving with the moral development of fraternity pledges. College football had already become rather grotesque when coaches began earning seven figures some 25 years ago, while the universities continued to mouth their old cant about character and education. Big Alcohol had long since consecrated the stadium; Big Gambling has now become its undertaker. And after decades of parading women as decoration, the same institutions discovered a sudden solicitude for women. Even the flag was enlisted in the pageant. Eventually I found the whole enterprise spiritually enervating: too much money, too little virtue, and an astonishing quantity of sanctimony. So I turned off the television. The kingdom did not fall. Weekends are better than ever without football in my life.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

Friend,

I like the cut of your jib, too. To clarify, the only Book of Common Prayer I own, and the only one I use, is the true standard: the 1928. Mine is not merely a prayer book but a small family relic. During the war, when Grandfather was in Europe, he helped save the lives of a crew of RAF men. Out of gratitude, one of the chaps gave Grandfather his pocket Book of Common Prayer.

Grandfather kept it for half a century and on Christmas morning in 1992 he gave it to me. I have carried that gift ever since, and scarcely leave the house without it in my pocket. Its pages have become soft with use, its corners worn by years of being carried from one place to another. There is something wonderfully Anglican about it all and if you ever come across a tall sport who says he is I yet is not toting in his pocket an English man’s 1928 BOCP, the truth is not in him.

Yours,
TulaneLSU