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NFL Football is nothing but time wasted in front of a television. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's unimportant in the scheme of things. There are plenty of other ways to spend your time.
Sounds like you're waxing philosophical
....I'm into my sixth decade. As I've lived I've come to grips with some basic facts of life particular to me. I have an addictive personality. I drank alcohol in various amounts until I was in my forties. I used marijuana when I was in college at BU and kept it up until I was 30 or so. I used coke and alcohol socially the entire '80's along with just about everybody in my wide social circle. That includes the people I worked with, cops, lawyers, politicians, most of my music friends, my artist friends...hell, it was as normal as lighting up a 'Boro in the a.m.(something else I was addicted to).
Fortunately, and I am a firm believer in this, I reached that point in MY life where I had an epiphany in my mid 40's. I quit drinking recreationally and rarely have even a taste, perhaps on a special occasion, a beer. I cold turkeyed the butts and haven't smoked anything of any origin in 15 years.
I played basketball through college and into state leagues into my thirties. I was a rabid NBA fan. Kicked that habit when Detroit and the Nasty Boys arrived. I still follow the Sox but I'm not hooked on them like I was when I was a green kid. I liked women with bad habits and high maintenance issues. I have a cat now.
Throughout all these travails, the one thing I have been completely and utterly owned by is my passion for the NFL. Since 1960 I have been the exact same nut you all have come to know here the past decade and a half. It's the only addiction I have never come to face....until now. The truth is, I do not want to stop being a fan. I want to die a hopeless screaming basket case homer for MY Patriots...but Deus...you are 100% right. I could and should be devoting my time helping others less fortunate than I, helping others that need some support in this raging river we call life. I look at this league and these people who stand behind it today and I think...looks like time to finally cold turkey THIS addiction too.
I'll give it another season (spoken like any true junkie) but if these corporate criminals keep on this path and these "gates" and the other farcical devices dreamt up by these corporate boobs continue unchanged, I'm out.