I am still licking my wounds from the Packers’ early exit from the postseason. And as I do – and as I try to satisfy the sports fan in me with other sports as the NFL’s sun gradually sets – I find myself thinking that we’d be better off if football were like other sports.
If football were golf, for example, then the Packers’ one bad round would not have eliminated them. They’d still be in the lead heading into Sunday.
Likewise, if football were NASCAR. I don’t pretend to know much about NASCAR and how it works, but I gather that there is some formula involving both wins and points. So, if football were NASCAR, Green Bay’s combination of wins and points would certainly still have them in the lead for the cup at the end.
Likewise, if football were the Tour de France – we’d still be in the lead heading into Super Bowl Sunday.
If football were boxing, and the season represented a single boxing match, then the Packers would win the Super Bowl by split decision.
If football were baseball or basketball, then the playoffs would be comprised of five- or seven-game series. And I challenge you to identify which of the original eleven other playoff teams would take a series from this year’s Packers.
And so I console myself that, if football were like other sports, the 2011 Packers would walk away with the Lombardi Trophy again. But if football were like other sports, I wouldn’t watch and I wouldn’t care. Football is football. And we lost.
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