Then there's the rest. LOTS of the rest - like 90% of the league. Why do they exist? To give the good teams somebody to play. And when those 90% play each other? It interests the fans in those cities, maybe because those fans think that their teams are important or something. And the analysis - oh, lawd, the analysis. We have to have something to talk about and 100s of hours of ESPN programming, with commentators and telestrators and in-studio mock fields where puffy men in suits give us their best interpretive dance about how a washed-up QB for a sub-500 team found a way to escape the blitz on two plays against another sub-500 team. And who's watching this #badword#? Bookies? Gamblers? Are they putting this all into an Excel sheet and running the numbers? Is this entertainment? Are the trifle dramas of #badword#ty teams all that people have going on in their lives?

If you're a fan of the big 3, enjoy your childhood and remember to brush your teeth. Or maybe you're one of the tiny few who have a legitimate claim based on where you grew up, or parents had tickets, etc. Great. Rare breed, you are. And if you're a fan of any team besides the big-3, you'll GET interested about once every 15 seasons when your hapless loser team dumb lucks its way to a 5-3 start and SUPER BOWL HERE WE COME BABY!!!!!! bring the vaseline and tissues and hungryman frozen dinner out to the living room and get thee to ESPN. they're waiting for you, ready to discuss the finer points of the 3-4 defense and probably they'll take another crack joking about INdy's #badword#ed up trick play or even deflate gate. Do we really know what happened? No, but we need to. And there's no way except to ANALYZE THAT #badword#. thanks ESPNFL.