This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast.

So after the Ram Seahawks game that was a legitimately great game between teams that are rare in that sport in that we know they're good.

We knew both of those teams are good.

We don't have any questions about how good they are.

You can have your quibbles with Denver, with the Patriots, because of the schedule they've played.

But I think all of us watching Rams Seahawks know that both of those teams are good football teams.

And I was talking about imperfect measurement systems after that game, because the point of

the games is to get to the television dollars and get everyone paid. It's not actually to measure the

best team. We all understand that part, right? That's not cynicism. The point is not to have the

best measurement system. Sure, it is. Cynicism. You can look at it the way that most sports fans look at it, which is, you know, I want my team to win a championship.

That's what they really play for.

Right.

But history will remember whoever wins the Super Bowl forever as the best team, but the Denver Broncos played 17 games to get this much of a home field advantage

and then are playing without their starting quarterback and lose by three points.

Maybe the Patriots are the better team.

That game doesn't prove it.

They just won because, at least in part, the Broncos didn't have their starting quarterback

and the game had to be played,

correct?

You're on like a weird sports nilus kick, though.

That's the breaks in that sport.

Like tons of fans will be like, ah, our season was undone by injuries.

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