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You NEVER see it. NFL commentary will have you thinking football is the greatest thing to ever exist. Mainstream basketball commentary is largely based around "basketball sucks". It's so stupid.
NFL commentators have just as much to complain about has NBA commentators. The NFL game is "softer" than it was 20-30 years ago, defenses can't jam receivers at the line of scrimmage the way they used to, teams rarely run the ball, the introduction of targeting and all the rules to protect the QB, etc.
You just don't see NFL commentators harp on it nearly as much as NBA commentators do. There are some guys who are worse than others but just about every major broadcast I watch I feel like there is a "you couldn't get away with that 20 years ago" speech.
I'm like "dawg, just called the game! I'm here to watch basketball because I enjoy it and I don't want to hear you talk trash about it!"