"It is to our sorrow that even though the magnificent and manic Timberwolves-Nuggets hoop orgy started later and had a 50-point(!) overtime to sustain its value as post-holiday entertainment, the news of the day was earlier, far more mundane, and could not even cover you through peak family burden time. In that way, at least, the NBA regained the upper hand on Christmas from the ever-rapacious NFL."
"This probably isn't sustainable, to be fair, because the NFL is a remake of The Blob, swallowing and smothering every part of every broadcast and streaming day-a far more terrifying version of Stranger Things: The Musical. But the league tripled down on Christmas this year with its tentpole not being the ever-tedious Dallas Cowboys but everyone's preseason darlings, the Detroit Lions."
"And that's giving them all the best of it. They were genuinely awful, as befits a team with only one signature victory all year, a Week 2 blowout of the not-yet-fully-formed Chicago Bears. They were unable to take control of a game in which the other team was quarterbacked by a guy named Max who guided an offense that totaled 161 yards. And when we say "unable to control," we of course mean "gave the ball away six times and did nothing on the Vikings' side of the field.""
On Christmas the Timberwolves and Nuggets produced a late, manic game that included a 50-point overtime and sustained post-holiday entertainment. The NFL expanded its Christmas schedule around the Detroit Lions but suffered a poor showcase. The Lions lost to the Minnesota Vikings 23-10 and showed lengthy offensive dysfunction. The Lions had only one signature win all season, struggled to gain yards against an offense that totaled 161 yards, and turned the ball over six times. The Lions' only touchdown came on a 19-play drive that required 13 plays from inside the Viking 45. The performance erased prior goodwill.
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