The game as a clip

The highlight package is the multimedia form of the decade: a play, a song, a caption, a loop. Late August is when football clips start colonizing every other video. You can know the score of a game you did not watch and feel informed. You are not informed. You saw a sentence.

As a review of the form: it is good at appetite and bad at a meal. The cut is clean. The context is gone. If this is how a week of sports arrives, the week will feel shorter than it was. Score it as a headline service. Do not confuse it with having been there, even from a couch.

Useful as a headline. Useless as a sport. Watch the play in its actual hour at least once.