"You can take your World Series and push it up your tush. The NFL delivers excitement similar to that of the high stakes, edge-of-your-seat extra inning baseball the Blue Jays and Dodgers gave us last week. But to see the heroics of Shohei Ohtani or Yoshinobu Yamamoto or even Miguel Rojas, you have to stay up late or risk missing out something incredible (with Ray Ratto deservedly putting salt on your wound)."
"I get it doesn't have everything the World Series might. The game was not played in a world city like Los Angeles or Toronto. It was not even played in Chicago, a city best known for the time that the Dave Matthews Band tour bus dropped a bunch of feces on tourists attempting to take a photo of the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album cover. But Cincinnati was a filming location for the 1993 film Airborne,"
The NFL provided easily accessible, high-impact excitement comparable to late-night, extra-inning baseball heroics. Major-league baseball moments often require staying up late to see stars like Shohei Ohtani or Yoshinobu Yamamoto, while NFL heroics from Caleb Williams or Joe Flacco can arrive on a free Sunday afternoon. The Bears defeated the Bengals 47-42 in a game that felt over multiple times but remained alive until a failed Hail Mary with no time left. Cincinnati hosted the game despite not being a major media market. The matchup paired a young, rising Bears quarterback against a 40-year-old veteran Bengals signal-caller.
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