Now That Football is Over .......

Now that football season is over, what do we have to look forward to on Sundays? Theres PBA bowling, NBA basketball and soon MLB baseball. Sounds so exciting. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who is going to miss football.

The NFL was a better soap opera this year than the spanish soaps that are on during the day. Peyton Manning played zero games and the Colts suffered horrendously; the Packers almost went undefeated after winning the Super Bowl last season; two brothers almost faced off in the Super Bowl for the first time in NFL history as head coaches; the Houston Texans made they're first playoff appearance in franchise history; the "Dream Team" Philadelphia Eagles flopped miserably; and America's team, the Dallas Cowboys, choked in the last game of the regular season to the wildcard Super Bowl Champion, New York football Giants, who went on to face the New England Patriots in a rematch of Super Bowl XLII.  

With many of juicy stories left out, the NFL has many stories intertwined with hard hitting and fast running super humans. Is America's game filled with so much drama for a specific reason? Do they just make things up to keep people interested? Without the soap opera stories, I would certainly still watch football. But that is because I bleed football, better yet I bleed sports. 

But for those who aren't interested at all; do they add the humanistic drama to these super-beings to keep the non sport lovers involved? The NFL is one of the most publicized and dramatic leagues that exists. What if the NFL hired soap opera writers every summer to sit around a huge round table to come up with dramatic stories to help script the season? 

At times, the NFL does seem scripted to me. Two wild card teams make it to the Super Bowl in back-to-back years and win. The NBA isn't even this dramatic and NBA players are more dramatic than TNT (We know drama). The most dramatic thing that goes on in the NBA is how terribly LeBron James keeps failing. The MLB is so boring that I don't even think drama can save it. The NHL doesn't even need drama because its just football on ice.

But this was just a crazy thought of mine. The government is trying to control so much as it is, why not try to control one of the most entertaining and highest grossing sports in the country.

My media writing professor made a great point that simply the best story always wins.