If you take tough out of football, then the game is gone. Might as well rename it PFL, the Pansy Football League. The guys in the 50's played out of love of the game. The QBs had to be as tough as the LBs, no special treatment because they are weak. Today's NFL is all about money and superstars and offense, and 10,000 rules. The everyone gets a trophy generation will destroy the NFL. Just sayin'.
Yeah. People watch it because tough. Not because watching a team that is an amazing zone blocking scheme with a generational talent at RB do world class things against defenses that can play either one or two gaps and sometimes stop a play on a dime or get gashed for 20.
Not for the chess match between coaches who belongs on the fields of Ancient Greece coming up with new strategy and tactics.
Not to see a 3 sigma athlete at TE go up for a pass in double coverage come down with a TE.
Not to watch a linebacker chase down and tackle an athletic QB inches from the goal line to win the game.
Not to see a kicker hit a 57 yard fg to win it in the wind.
Not to watch a player who came from nothing play well enough so that his extended family and offspring never have to worry about their next paycheck.
Nobody watches their favorite QB prove everyone wrong and win a game.
Yeah....they watch it because they like seeing players concusses on a blind side hit, and they like seeing them risk the remaining 30 years of their life to keep playing. Totally why I’m into the sport.