Instead of a sport that took our souls and ate up four hours of our life, degenerate gamblers across America had a moment of pure entertainment. First with the Seahawks last-second clipping-penalty-turned-safety MUT 24 Coins, then with Jim Harbaugh's amazing decision to turn down the points, kneel, and keep the Niners from covering the spread.

In the case of this post, you've probably heard about this particular sequence already, but it bears mentioning that this is precisely what creates the addictive nature of gambling, and in turn keep us hooked on playing Madden NFL 24. It's not even necessary to gamble as much.

A simple picks pool can make you addicted. It turns the worst, most ineffective areas of football into memorable or bad memories that will last 10 times longer any other highlights. Nobody will remember how the 49ers scored their go-ahead touchdown on Thursday but we'll be able to remember the way they (almost) stole a cover in the process, and how Harbaugh did something that was inexplicably wrong to Niners bettors all over the world*. Some version of this story saves a bad game every week.

Have a look around the league now What percentage of these games would actually be worth cheap Madden Coins watching in the absence of fantasies or gambling desires? Maybe 20 percent? If 80 percent of the teams are equally good which means that everyone's equally average and, more or lesser, unwatchable.