This NFL season a new controversy has emerged among pro football fans: a growing resentment over the content the NFL and the networks won’t share with the television audience. Call it the great All 22 Controversy of 2011. Media as varied as the Wall Street Journal, major sports blogs like Deadspin, even social commentary sites like the Good Men Project, and untold numbers of bloggers and commenters have all weighed in on this issue. But whether the NFL should or shouldn’t allow fans to see certain footage is secondary to why they aren’t showing it and what this says about us. So, what is All 22?
