The following might read as sarcastic, because I too was looking forward to watching a Monday Night Football game featuring two teams whose play could speak enough volumes to drowned out Jason Witten's failed attempts at using the idiosyncrasies of the English language, but seeing those pictures made me smile. Not because I want any member of the Rams or Chiefs stepping foot on a field that currently isn't fit to host a BBQ, never mind a primetime professional football game between two of the most explosive offenses in the league. But rather, because I enjoyed the reminder that Roger Goodell and Co. are just as likely to blindly run face-first into "the shield" like it's a spotless sliding glass door as they are to actually protect it. We all make fun of the NFL for being successful despite itself, but it's monumental missteps like this that give us no reservations in doing so. I mean, a multi-billion dollar entity scheduled what's only become a more and more enticing event with each passing week and then just...forgot...I guess...to keep tabs on the status of the venue in which it was being held. Much like someone losing track of the calendar during the lead-up to a holiday party they are hosting, the NFL has forced itself into full-blown clean-up mode days ahead of an undeniably intriguing nationally broadcasted game in another country, except their guests number in the the tens of thousands and had to arrange international travel plans well in advance to get there. Aside for the confusion it's causing, you just really have to appreciate how on-brand it is for a league that leans so heavily on its product in making up for its amateurish management to leave the door wide open for them to get caught with their own pants down.
UPDATE: Anticlimactic. Entirely necessary, but anticlimactic...
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