I have not talked sports in a long time. It is going to be tough trying to keep 100 days of blogs about writing going while also talking about sports but here’s my angle: Narrative. I’ve been following a lot of the narratives around the NFL trades and watching the story sorcerers do their work. What I find most interesting about these stories is how they coalesce. This is not a collaborative process. Instead various sports writers try to find an angle that works and once it does all the others try to copy that story until it becomes canon. Today the Browns traded Baker Mayfield to the Panthers. It is no coincidence that the Panthers kick off the season playing the Browns. This was clearly scripted once the narrative dropped that they were looking for a trade partner.
So, the story unfolds as it should.