Flipping out over stupidity

SO CHIEFS’ WR Tyreek Hill brakes at the 1 to perform a back flip into the end zone. It’s stupid, not just as a matter of rank, repetitive showboating but as a risk for losing the ball and a TD, needlessly sustaining a spinal injury and, now — and perhaps worst of all — for altering the game as a Roger Goodellsanctioned gambling proposition.

There can’t be one intelligent TV contributor who watched this and thought it made good sense and good football. But from James Brown in CBS’s studio to the “Monday Night Football” crew during a next-night replay, Hill’s move was highlighted as fabulous!

Now, had he lost the ball or been hurt — “Our thoughts and prayers” — but TV talkers would rather not invite the scorn of drooling dopes, so they pander to them and treat you as the dopes.

➤ Leave it to TV’s sense of quality control: The artificial COVID crowd noise in ESPN’s Michigan St.-Duke, Tuesday, then the next night on NBC’s Ravens-Steelers, was so loud, one strained to hear the game announcers.

No offense — pun intended — but if St. John’s was going to shoot 3s at 4-for-21 in a six-point loss against BYU on ESPN2, Wednesday, this was the best plan a seven-man coaching staff could design?

Why is it that what used to be rare — Jets and Giants playing head-tohead on CBS and Fox at 1 p.m. — is now more common? What else, TV money. The 4:15 starts are far more valuable to TV, thus losing teams increasingly play 1 p.m. games. Just like owning Goodell double-dip PSLs — the better your team the tougher it is to attend its games.

The day after the New York Times reported Nike is among the major companies and business groups lobbying Congress to weaken a bill that would ban imported goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, China arrested three pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Silence from LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick.

In a scoreless first quarter, the Eagles and Seahawks tied an ESPN “Monday Night Football” record for fewest points scored in a quarter.

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Reader Jim Smith from Bayshore: “These gambling ‘experts’ on WFAN would be more credible if they just said, ‘I like their uniforms.’ ”