As if Travis Kelce has been shorted media attention, Sunday it was steadily and transparently apparent that as a matter of pre-determination, he was going to steal TV’s attention at every opportunity.

And Fox was eager to comply, as it ignored a close game to replay Kelce’s unhinged, beast-unchained behavior after every play in which he had a role. Not even by Kelce’s usual post-play antics were these seen or believed as matters of what the NFL excuses as “natural enthusiasm.”

Years ago, without any constitutional amendments, FCC rulings or free-speech ACLU legal filings, TV folks arrived, all by themselves, at a sensible, all-in solution: Rather than encourage drunk-and-on-a-dare fools who’d run out on the field during ball games, they’d simply discourage them by not showing them.

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