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These are Walter’s Sunday Nuggets featuring:

• A compilation of recommended reading for the serious football fan/fantasy player

• A summary of important news from this week to be aware of

• A non-football thing to fixate on as the wait for the NFL season continues

📚 Recommended Reading 

🏈 The Newsroom

Could be something, could be nothing…

This far out from the season it can be difficult to parse what stories will have a meaningful impact on the NFL season. Here are some stories we are monitoring: 

• Travis Hunter has worked predominantly at WR in team activities, primarily because there is a steeper learning curve on that side of the ball. It sounds like JAX does not know how he will be used quite yet.

• Jordan Addison’s trial is set for July 15th - enough time for any (likely) suspension to be implemented before this season

• Keenan Allen is still a free agent. Sneaky landing spots for him could be the Chargers, Eagles, Bengals, Vikings, Jaguars, Falcons, Cardinals, Commanders, Rams

• Jaxson Dart has reportedly impressed early. Perhaps he could be starting sooner than expected…

• Colts beat reporters have speculated that Daniel Jones has a strong lead over Anthony Richardson for the starting job.

A Non-Football Something

This is section where I plan on highlighting something non-football related each week. It could be a movie, a podcast, a story from another sport, a book, a concept etc. Its an experiment really in an effort to add more personality to the piece and expand my repertoire as a writer (personally).

$4,785. That’s How Much It Costs to Be a Sports Fan Now.

Joon Lee’s name frequently appeared on my social media feeds as he toured local Boston television networks lambasting the Red Sox for their dysfunction following the Rafael Devers trade. But it was his opinion piece in the New York Times before this Red Sox barrage that has been on my mind all week.

Lee’s central thesis in this piece is that sports fandom is no longer being nurtured and instead being mined maximum profit, and that the result of this is declining impact of sport as a public/communal commodity. He lays out in detail how the landscape of sports consumption has changed and gotten more expensive in the last half century (particularly in recent years), and lists out potential regulatory solutions to these problems.

He does a terrific job zeroing in on what makes sports so special and anyone who has tried to watch an out of market NFL game in the past three years will probably be a radical supporter of some of his regulatory proposals.

Check it out if you are into this sort of thing. Sports always make me feel a little existential so this was right up my alley.