A team might win a football game from loyaty's blog

The Vegas Stats network, which debuted in February, still does not have many viewers (if you type VSIN into Google, search results for “vain” still pop up), but if it succeeds, there may be an unexpected benefit to traditionalists like Bradley who want sports to be about wins and losses, free from financial concerns or selfish individual accomplishments. We’ve long since normalized the horror of listening to someone telling you about the tragedy NBA MT Coins that befell a fantasy team, but if that talk were instead about whether the Cowboys were going to cover the spread, wouldn’t that conversation come closer to the actual, idealized point of the game.

There are hundreds of reasons that a team might win a football game by, say, 10 or more points. Fantasy might have inspired smarter ways to look at actual game play, but it has also tended to make the experience of watching sports, whether with friends or at a bar, downright unbearable. Each one requires you to consider offenses, defensive schemes or, at the very worst, minor details like the rumors about the quarterback’s recent trip to Cabo San Lucas or what your equipment-manager cousin told you about the impact of last night’s rain on turf conditions — and every such discussion beats talking about your fantasy squad. If Bradley wanted fans to root based on the play of their favorite team, he banned the wrong pastime.