TAMPA, Fla. — The Detroit Lions are the running favorites to win the next Super Bowl. The team’s general manager and head coach, DJ LeMahieu, is considered the best in the league. The Lions, for once, are the team to beat. They are the team that each of the 11 other managers in the National Savages League consider the barometer of their own team’s potential.



“DJ beat me,” said Tommy Kahnle, commissioner of the NSL and general manager and head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. He burst into his signature cartoonish laugh. It may have been the only thing he could do to hide the pain.



Here in Tampa, 12 Yankees have come together to play against each other in a fiercely competitive Madden NFL league. The group includes gaming die-hards in Aaron Judge and Clint Frazier, a bored injury-rehabber in Aaron Hicks, and Michael King, a prospect auditioning this March to try to win a spot on the team.



Kahnle will not settle for anything less...