Week 1 in the sim is a second league with worse weather

Opening Sunday is when the licensed football game stops being a summer demo and starts being a parallel slate. Same teams. Same week. Cleaner uniforms. No weather that actually ruins a throw. The appeal is control. The limit is the same every year: the product is a broadcast without the thing that makes a broadcast matter, which is that nobody knows the ending.

Play it between windows if the slate has a gap. Do not confuse the sim with coverage. One is a toy that rented a league. The other is the league, with commercials.

Fine as a toy during a window you are not watching. A poor substitute for the broadcast you already paid for.