Will boomer writers please give millennials a break?

For a few years now, I’ve been bookmarking stories that make it clear that we millennials are doing everything wrong, destroying this great nation that was built by the baby boomers. According to these stories, millennials are ruining pro football, killing the housing market, subverting tried-and-true dating rituals, and overconsuming even while we are underconsuming.

Here are some of my favorite front-line dispatches from the War Between the Generations.

Full disclosure: I’m a 24-year-old millennial, raised by boomer parents.

1. “Millennial Generation Could Kill the N.F.L.,” by Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 19, 2012.

This article argues that it is boomers who made the N.F.L. great and millennials who are destroying it. “The emergence of the millennial generation poses an existential threat to the future of the National Football League,” it says. “Many protective mothers and fathers of millennials aren’t allowing their kids to play tackle football because of health risks. These attitudes could close the N.F.L.'s pipeline to many talented players.” O.K., but here’s what I don’t understand. If we millennials are killing pro football, how come the average football player in the United States is a 250-pound, 26-year-old millennial?