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Football did have a golden age there for a while. They had to legislate a lot out of the game for safety reasons and it’s opened up a lot of the passing game, and much of it in a boring way.
The game is worse imo from an entertainment standpoint than that aughts period, but I still love football because it’s all about strategy still, but I miss how football used to be, sue me. But points aren’t inherently more exciting unless scoring is really low (like I love soccer but I get how people don’t like a sport unless they truly understand it if there isn’t more scores). Football has 9 or 10 scores a game.
The NBA suffers the same imo. I liked the game a lot more in the 90s and honestly thought the product was awful until the Warriors came along.
The product on the field the past few years has been so lame, in part to the refs being inconsistent and the new rules