It was the return of a lost love.

Did you savor the slingshot passes Patrick Mahomes hurled across the field for Kansas City?

How was it to watch Tom Brady taking command of the “Tompa Bay” Buccaneers?

Did it give you the joy you needed in these uncertain times?

Or did you feel something else?

The return of a lost love comes with risk. The N.F.L. is back. Aside from a doubleheader on Monday night, its first fraught and long-awaited week is in the books. But did the league’s sudden, large-scale embrace of Black Lives Matter have the gloss of a put-on? Maybe the prerecorded crowd noise sounded flat and fake.

When fans were allowed in the stands, 16,000 went to Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to cheer Mahomes and the Chiefs. Were they in a fog of denial?

Source: New York Times

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