As a watcher of live sporting events, I prefer the miracle finish to the long slog that precedes it

John Sutter : I prefer the miracle finish to the long slog that precedes the finish.

He says he is less than assiduous when it comes to watching the monotonous, game-long back-and-forth of nearly any athletic endeavor.

Sutter says his apathy can be attributed in part to his lack of rooting interest in the championship participants.

But the sum total of all this activity is at least as exciting as that FloridaHouston game and for roughly the same reason: As Americans , we have been lulled into watching a long, slow, plodding game for most of our lives, but in the final period, we have finally been given something worth watching. Now if only the incomparable Ian Eagle would cover trade wars rather than buzzer-beaters..