what the fuck nfl

dear nfl:

so here i am, 4pm on a sunday watching football, when the end of the browns/ravens game (which is tied with 2 mins left) is cut off. let's face it, the nfl fucking sucks this year and is about as boring as the nba (holy shit that's bad) unless you're a patriots fan or a packers fan (luckily, i'm a patriots fan). but the problem is, all of the other games fucking suck. they're either not close, or they just have the most pitiful teams playing and the game is only close because both teams really really suck.

now i couldn't give a shit about either the browns or the ravens, but the game was tied at 27 with just a little time left. then i check espn.com to find out that the ravens took the lead, then the browns tied it up right at the end, and then won in overtime. cbs tells us that "due to nfl rules" we can't watch the end of the game. and i understand contracts and broadcasting rights and blah blah fuckity blah, but honestly. when your league is THIS bad and is just going down the shitter (see: pacman jones, tank johnson, and then the inexplicable reinstatement of ricky williams (this i don't understand, cuz if goodell is being such a toughass commish why the hell is he reinstating someone who just tested positive for drugs in april)), a good idea is generally to make your product more marketable, not less. to me, it seems the smart idea would be to allow people who still probably don't give a shit about the teams (read: probably everyone) to at least watch a good finish.

but no, instead i had a choice between watching over-concussed, senile ex-players irrelevantly ramble about how everyone should be sucking LT's dick even though he sucks more cock than tom cruise, and watching the first minutes of the cowboys/redskins game (wake me up when i give a shit about that either). i live in an afc territory. so fuck the first 3 mins of a shitty, non-local nfc game and show me the exciting conclusion of the game between 2 inconsequential midwestern afc teams.