It's a very sad day when one can not find an NFL team media guide. I figured that this sad day was coming as each year more and more teams are making available a media guide that can be downloaded. It seems that sad day is here. So sad. Football Media Guides are awesome. So much information in a perfectly-sized, information-packed book. Once just the tool of the newspaperman. They have been enjoyed by fans for decades. Player and coaches profiles. Even administrators. Stats of every sort. Team and league records. Past game results. Past drafts. Team and individual honors. If you have a question about you team. Your media guide usually has the answers. Media guides are the best.
It will be a sad day when one has to watch an NFL game without a published team media guide within easy reach. That sad day will likely be the first game of the 2014 season. That's next week. The good news is that media guides are still available. The sad news is that they aren't available in the wonderful, bound information-dynamo that everyone should love. I was able to find the Minnesota Vikings 2013 Media Guide last year. This year's version is nowhere to be found. NFL teams are producing their media guides as PDF files. The Vikings seem to be making only this sad replacement for the real thing available. You can download them. Print them. Look at them online. Whatever. I hate reading a book, any book, especially my beloved media guides on a computer. It's not convenient. It's really not convenient in the heat of a football game. I'm likely in the minority. If I was in the majority, this sad trend wouldn't be trending. Not all supposed advancements are improvements. In my book, media guides in any format other than a book-book is a disaster. They are perfect little jewels of information. It will be a sad day when media guides are no longer available as media guides and that sad day seems to be here.
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