Abomber22Devil's advocate you're good at.
Understanding the American love of football, not so much
Every season the NFL is full of horrible terrible games of terribleness. Borderline unwatchable games even for the most diehard fans of the teams involved... Games where all you can do is just fucking laugh at how bad it is.
What's the difference between the Chargers and Raiders deliberately shanking field goals for straight up laughs for the whole game, and what happened when Heinz Field was turned into a giant mud pit and the game nearly ended 0-0... or better yet, a game where one team runs up a cricket score on the other and it's over by halftime?
In our scenario... two teams shake hands to play for a tie... and both teams have to
TRY to not score... while making it
LOOK like they are trying to win... That adds up a whole new kind of interesting... because what if ONE guy decides to take it for a touchdown, and now the other team feels like the pact has been broken, then we could see war declared in REAL TIME. We get to see what's effectively a cold war the whole game... where just one rogue general pushing the button on the nuclear missile could open the floodgates to mutually assured destruction...
How fuckin cool is that? Seeing the tactics and the teams fighting with teammates to maintain discipline in a whole new way... my god, it would be the most beautiful dance I've ever seen.
and seeing as this is a spectator sport, and the athletes are out there at the end of the day to dance for their dollar, seeing a hilarious mockery of the game where two teams have to try to mud-bowl it up? Absolutely glorious...
it would be...
THE GREATEST GAME
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1026153/November-26--2007--Miami-Dolphins-vs--Pittsburgh-Steelers----The-Greatest-Game