13. It’s football season?
12. An entire football game = 3 to 4 hours. Highlight shows = 30 minutes.
11.  Some cooking shows these days are really engaging
10. We were watching some commercials and a football game came on
9.  Don’t need to watch the game, just need our fantasy numbers
8.  Footballed-out from college football on Saturday
7.  Madden 17
6. Binge watch entire series of zombies, nerds and superheroes
5. Not buying the NFL Ticket
4. Not going out somewhere to watch the game and spend money
3. The games totally interrupt our social media time
2. Not sitting at home to watch the regional broadcast of my terrible regional team
1.  Life

10.  At least for a few hours, can be certain where both candidates will be
9.   Always a great endorsement for a multi-party system
8.   Can learn new and improved ways of not actually answering any direct question
7.   Fairly certain the moderator will soon have his/her own political talk show (if they don’t already)
6.   Learn very quickly the statement, “Your time is up” doesn’t actually mean that
5.   Memorizing lines isn’t as difficult as we all thought
4.   The other 147 cable channels available finally get a click-through viewing
3.   Proof the fear we had of that public speaking class was totally unfounded
2.   No commercial interruptions
1.    The other 324 million of us don’t seem so bad