Question #48: Where are Brett, Eli?
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- August
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The Giants beat the Patriots again. The Jets beat the Eagles in Philly. Well, those weren’t really the Giants, Patriots, Jets or Eagles, were they?
They were imposters, many of whom will be released free agents, or assigned to practice squads, before next week’s for-real openers.
So here’s the question: Why do they bother playing a fourth preseason game?
Of course you know the answer. Because it’s another 80,000 tickets each team can sell as part of the extortion of its season-ticket holders, who have to buy two preseason games if they want to see the eight regular-season games. So, no, it’s never going to change. If anything, the preseason has a better chance of becoming longer, even if the games are played in houses half full, or less.
But coaches have made it pretty clear that the fourth preseason game is an exercise in nothing. The only thing that can happen in the fourth preseason game is that somebody can get hurt. So important players don’t play. Yet some have to play, because rosters are already pared down by now, and thus injuries are risked just to sell more tickets. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.