Welcome back to the Weekend Watchlist, where the games change ever week but the Jason Kelce-Kylie Kelce NFL Sunday Ticket commerical remains eternal.
If you have watched football at any point this season, you know the one. Kylie is understandably concerned about having what appears to be 200 people over to their house on Sunday because everyone wants to watch a different game, and she would like to be a good host who cares about the needs and wants of her guests. Jason, meanwhile, reassures his increasingly concerned wife that everything will be fine because they have YouTube TV and NFL Sunday Ticket. This commercial has now entered the official canon of the Weekend Watchlist, partially because I have seen it approximately 100,000,000,000 times and expect to see it 100,000,000,000 more before the season ends, but mostly because I cannot stop thinking about the ludicrousness of Jason’s solution.
How is this party actually going to work? There are 20 people in that living room. Even with multiview, you need at least four televisions before we can begin discussing whether everybody’s needs have been accommodated, and Jason does not appear remotely concerned about this logistical nightmare. Kylie is trying to make sure their friends feel welcomed and cared for, while her husband seems completely satisfied that he has purchased access to every football game and therefore completed his responsibilities as host. Buddy, the problem was never whether you could watch Jaguars-Patriots. The problem is that somebody in your living room wants Jaguars-Patriots while six other people want Chargers-Bills, another group wants something else entirely and you appear to own one television. How? You’re a millionaire!
Maybe this is why I feel such kinship with Kylie Kelce. The entire purpose of the Weekend Watchlist is solving the problem Jason refuses to acknowledge. You have one television, maybe two if you are sufficiently committed to the cause, and an unreasonable number of football games competing for your attention. Somebody has to make the difficult decisions around here.
Apparently it will not be Jason.
