I enjoy the speculation all the fan blogs and channels are doing on the Washington Commanders.
But there won't be tangible evidence of really ANYTHING until the NFL regular season kicks off. I think they maybe, the Commanders, can lead the league in rushing and field a Top Ten defense but that is all I can imagine at this point without seeing them in the line of fire.
From a football futurology standpoint, there are interesting things to consider.
Such as the following: Will the NFL still be in business in 2050? Is College Football going to end up KEEPING players the entirety of their football-playing careers? Is AI going to eject humans from the game of football? Or is AI Robotics going to inject humans of all shapes and sizes into the game based on motion capture, robot avatars, and Madden 2050?
By Madden 2050, there should be tech in place allowing a four-foot four hundred pound video game master to insert his cybernetic ectoplasm into a robot avatar and play any position in football. And excel at it.
Avatars made of titanium chassies rendering Team Doctors Unemployed. Humans participating only as pit crew members replacing parts, rebooting wi-fi, coaches calling plays. Hell, AI calling plays.
And talk about nostalgia. All the greats could have avatars constructed of themselves and return to the gridiron. Play against each other once again. Easy enough right? Load the 2D tape of the classic games. Use the 2D to transfer to 3D Holograms. Use the 3D Holograms as motion capture. Load it into a Bot. Et voila! Super Bowl 22 relived in titanium crunching three dimensions!
People talk about football immortality. What about our heroes choosing to live forever in their newly constructed football avatar bodies?
All of this because of 3D QB and Jayden Daniels? Is Jayden Daniels going to load the NFL into the Matrix? And if they go, do we all go?
I mean, I don't believe the NFL can compete with College Football. College Ball can promise full employment figures. The NFL's elitist structure surgically removes the "bums" and only employs 50 people a team.
College Ball has bigger rosters and can offer lifetime involvement in football with career tracks that last beyond playing into coaching and lecturing with things like tenured football professors and football experts emeritus.
The NFL just isn't all that interested in full employment. It is interested in making money. They should have 90-man rosters but instead offer these American Football Has Talent Shows every year that breaks hundreds of hearts and dashes dreams as a matter of course.
They are crass and College Ball is not.
A Med School model which is what College Ball is looking like it is using would work way better than the NFL works. You get paid in Med School. You become a surgeon. You lose your skills. You lecture.
They you play golf in the Carribean.
What's more is the football will probably be BETTER in the new College Model than what you see in the NFL where after five years they basically kick you to the curb.
The NFL is not ready for that kind of competition. They are a monopoly and their self-satisfaction has ruined them as far as competitive environments is concerned.
The NFL can be replaced. We're seeing some candidates forming.
Question is. Does the NFL see it?
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