> However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football. I'm sure there are plenty of HN reader

> However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football. I'm sure there are plenty of HN readers who are football fans, you just don't see many sports stories because they're generally considered off-topic. From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This all-22 discussion is probably on-topic for HN because it has more to do with the pros and cons of exerting control over exactly how people consume your product than with the specifics of the sport.