There truly is no spectacle in professional sports quite like NFL training camp. That sentence looks like a compliment, but it is not. Literally every spectacle in professional sports—a touchback in a St. Louis Rams game in Week 4, say, or an eggplant-shaped pitching coach waddling to the mound in the sixth inning to kill time for the bullpen to warm up—is more exciting than NFL training camp. Players stand around, hot and bored, hydrating themselves and periodically doing skeleton drills. There might be music, or there might not. If you crane your neck just right, you might be able to watch the offensive coordinator chew gum with no expression on his face. It's a football practice.So naturally, hundreds of fans show up every day, dressed in their Sports Pajamas, to watch football practice. The Vine above depicts the first day of New England Patriots camp, which began this year as every year with the traditional Running Of The Caucasians Brought To You By Dunkin' Donuts. This majestic pageant—which historians agree began in the 18th century, when the Puritans who colonized Massachusetts introduced the tradition of sprinting to watch each other stand around—today takes the form of adults in Steve Grogan jerseys and cargo shorts absolutely busting ass towards a football practice.They are running because the sooner they get there, the closer they're likely to get to Bill Belichick, who will be watching that football practice while wearing the facial expression usually seen only on men who are actively receiving a colonoscopy. They are running because Rob Gronkowski is there, which makes at least a little bit of sense. Mostly, they are running because it is their tradition, their culture, and their nature to run in that direction. We might as well wish them the best.