John--you misunderstand me. My critique is not that football is boring. My critique is that it is getting tougher and tougher to swallow the spit-shined image of football that is sold by its commentators and the league itself.
Underneath the surface, I suspect football is savage, dirty, filled with direputable characters and uncheckable egos. But it is sold as a noble contest, each victory the consequence of hard work, drinking your milk and going to school and all that suchnot. I think part of my disgust stems from the fact that football, nowadays, seems to full of itself (which I attribute to its dominance over other American sports in popularity). Did anyone see the hall of fame ceremony this summer, the induction of Steve Young and Dan Marino? What a self-indugent stroke-fest that was. Why, it could almost inspire the cancer right out of that bed-ridden child!
I'm saying that the attempts to elevate football into the heavens of cosmic significance are somewhat obscene, and that's why it's becoming tougher for me to watch. It's not boring (except for the Patriots), but pretentious.
