I know Tumblr isn't a sports place. I am a universal translator for various social circles because if you are in certain parts of the Midwest, you have to know sports to just talk to people. I'm not Jon Bois or anything, but here's a funny observation.
The 2023 NFL football season was mostly what was expected in the most WEIRD and STUPID way possible. The Chiefs and the 49ers met in the Super Bowl like they were supposed to. Doing that, one of the most dude players in the NFL who was so giddy about trying to see Taylor Swift at Arrowhead Stadium and was disappointed when he wasn't able to trying to give her a friendship bracelet out of NOWHERE is dating Taylor Swift. On the 49ers end, they had to come back and get lucky against the NFL's walking punchline, the Detroit Lions whose best player of all time retired extremely early instead of getting beat up playing for the them again, to get here. The Chiefs won their scripted Super Bowl championship to get Joe Biden re-elected by a botched punt return where every 49er was doing their job, and the ball was simply directed by the Hand of God. That last sentence was 100% true.
I did a 30-minute rant elsewhere, but I realize it could all be summed up by one thing. One GIF.
Backstory: Aaron Rodgers is the NFL quarterback who talked to Jake from State Farm before Patrick Mahomes took over all advertising (Including local HyVee spots. Hi, Iowa Mentioned!). He's also a premadonna, an anti-vaxxer, and the person Iowa State receiver Allen Lazard's career relies on most (Hi, Iowa Mentioned!). He made his free agency THE official show for sports programming to an extremely annoying level. He eventually chose the Jets, a team most late night talk show hosts use to get an instant laugh, and this meant MORE media coverage. This was going to backfire. HARD. What we didn't know is it would backfire IMMEDIATELY. This is Aaron Rodgers after injuring his Achilles tendon for the entire season after the FIRST play he involved with in the FIRST game.
This has been the 2023 NFL season. What the hell was that?
I'm going to be low energy for the near future. My work for the next month is doing extra for a co-worker going through surgery, and the rest of my energy is going places other than social media. Here're the cats rarely united in happiness because my laptop's been returned... even after I moved it because they kept rolling on on the keyboard.