I have been reading a newspaper every morning before leaving home for over 50 years. I can hardly imagine doing without one. Oh, wait, I am doing without one! The Plain Dealer became Plain and there are no real news to read.  Just sports, national, international, local, high school, retirement home tournaments, kindergarten challenges, and bedroom arguments. Who won? What happened? Let's dissect a meaningless game and devote 20 pages to it, since the TV news only spend 80% of available bandwidth to broadcast pretty much the same stories you find in the Plain.

The Plain

In fact, I  noticed that the online version of the paper has small TV screen-like windows where two individuals, a lady and her male partner in crime tell you what you already heard on TV the day before. The reality is simple, we don't have a football team, just the side effects of it. In random order these are: a concussed quarterback, a tax to pay for the stadium, an additional disbursement to pay for improvements of various types (a TV screen, you bet, the biggest in town, so you can watch TV at the stadium instead of from home).
How does this belong to culture in NEO? It does, for this is the culture of NEO for a lot of people. It does, since the Browns produce a humorous Monday, the notoriously hardest day of the week.
There is nothing wrong with sports or with a newspaper devoting tons of space to sporting news. In a country where I previously lived there is a daily full-length paper that only deals with sports. Let's call this paper The Dealer, it deals in sports and it does so with grace, the paper edition being in hard-to-miss pink!

The Dealer