Bashing the Super Bowl

Bud Shaw thinks it sucks, and laments the state of the NFL in the process. This past NFL season was probably the best season of Shaw's PD writing career -- he was critical, but thankfully he was accurate. But this column is one of those which was written in a vacuum of the columnists creation. He might want to consider why, if the NFL and it's championship game is in a sorry state, the league is so popular. There are pros and cons to the situation that Shaw can't/won't consider in his admittedly short space. I'd like to hear what Shaw's wide-lens view of the NFL is. I would bet it involves undoing a few things that, or better or worse, have made the NFL so popular.