Part 1 can be found here. Remember FOOTBALL? Yes, I know football never goes away, even during the offseason. We’ve spent months talking about conference realignment and NIL and division structures and NIL and the transfer portal and NIL and coaching salaries and recruiting rankings and ticket prices and NIL. But that’s football. I’m talking about FOOTBALL. [Fuller] One does not discuss FOOTBALL. FOOTBALL is not an active, purposeful decision. It is an involuntary reaction. An irresistible response to a stimulus planted deep in one’s soul. Those of us who are afflicted are the sleeper agents of chaos. Manchurian Candidates of loud noises. And from January through August we wait. FOOTBALL is the thing that makes you yell stupid, obvious things like “FUMBLE” and “THAT’S A HOLD” and “GET HIM.” It causes you to sing Mr. Brightside from the diaphragm to no one in particular. It causes a full body-and-soul reaction when you see a wheel route developing and you realize O