There’s a really important sportsball game on Saturday between these two teams in the Midwest. Lots of people are talking about it. And that’s in the literal sense, not like the “It’s really me who said this but I’m trying to make it sound like this is a widely held opinion” sense. We’re not “just asking questions” about the hype around this game. We’re not asking questions at all actually. But even if we were, they wouldn’t carry the implication that we’re weakly obfuscating bad faith rhetoric under the guise of “asking questions.” We like to think that we possess a pretty keen sense of where the public’s collective attention is directed, so we’re confident that we’re making the right call here about this game’s importance. It’s no exaggeration to call this a “Big Game” or even “THE Big Game.”

Sure, you could say the upcoming sportsball game between Mexico and Argentina (the one where the players kick the ball for most of the game) is quantifiably important to more sportsball fans than the one that those colleges are playing this afternoon (the one where the players kick the ball only a few times), as it’s playing out in front of a global audience. But we put “Midwest” in the headline. We made it abundantly clear we’re referring to that particular really big sportsball game.

The bottom line is that this game is really big in the Midwest and medium big elsewhere. We’re not sure what time it starts – or “kicks off” in sportsball jargon – or which television channel is broadcasting it. We encourage readers to check their local listings for that information.