Creeping insecurity comes with job longevity. This week, an email from Isaac Rosen: “I never miss any of your columns.”

Hmmm. When did he quit reading them?

It’s a see-saw ride. I don’t see what professionals, assigned to show and tell us what we see and just saw, say they see and saw.

Late in Saturday’s Yale-Harvard game, the 50th anniversary of the game in which Harvard scored 16 points in the last 42 seconds to create the headline, “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29,” Crimson quarterback Tom Stewart was spread out, injured, apparently seriously, on the field.

Both teams gathered to show their concern when ESPN play-by-play man Jason Benetti gave us his version of that “this puts everything in perspective” deal. Benetti solemnly said, “There is significant mutual respect among these players.”

That was odd. Moments earlier he described the teams as “hated” rivals. And before that, and throughout the game, the reasonable anticipation that a Yale-Harvard game would be played with any more dignity, class and “significant mutual respect” than the usual Saturday big-time college football version had been destroyed.

This game was a disgrace, including several penalties for late hits and off-the-play incivility. There was an ejection for targeting — Harvard defensive back Wesley Ogsbury made no attempt to tackle, but to send his opponent to Mass General, then was unaware he’d been flagged as he was busy in self-celebration of his excessive brutality.

And Harvard running back Devin Darrington, en route to scoring a touchdown, was so respectful that at the 3-yard line he paused to taunt defenders, the TD wiped out.

Yale-Harvard, for crying out loud! Seems no one is immune from acceding to all the go-even-lower prompts that have removed the sport from our sports. And who can return to a place they’ve never been?

Sunday against the Buccaneers, during Fox’s Michigan-Ohio State in-game infomercial, the Giants broke an NFL record for most post-play, check-me-out showboating by members of a 2-7 team.

Fox also broke a record: Most slow-motion replays of individuals on a 2-7 team in immodest, smug self-affection.

Saturday against Rutgers on BTN, freshman Penn State tight end Pat Freiermuth demonstrated that he’s TV-trained obnoxious. Twice he caught TD passes, turned his back on teammates, folded his arms in front of him and gave the crowd that tired, self-satisfied Mussolini-from-the-balcony pose.

Naturally, BTN showed both in replays. After the second, analyst Shaun O’Hara, former Rutgers and Giants center, said, “He’s posing, right there — like he should be.”

I fully suspect that what O’Hara told us he liked he actually disliked, maybe even actually detested. It’s OK, though. It’s called pandering. Most everyone on TV does it.

Why have such sorry, immodest post-play images become the preferred promotional and in-game scenes of the sport? There can’t be a good reason, right?

Sunday, Fox analyst Chris Spielman — favored for his ability to speak applicable, plain-English football — must’ve been slipped a Mike Mayock Mickey. He three times said Saquon Barkley must run “north and south.” North and south? Impossible — unless he’s bi-polar.

Spielman even described a self-evident jumping catch as a case of “high-pointing the football.”

Spielman’s partner, Thom Brennaman, at 31-21 Giants, said the Bucs’ defense is, “a maligned group, indeed. They’ve given up 31 points today.” But Giants linebacker Alec Ogletree had scored on an interception; Brennaman made the call.

Saturday on ESPN, Maryland had the ball, down 52-45 to Ohio State in overtime. That’s when ESPN placed that distracting field-goal target line across the screen. Not only was it 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage, did ESPN anticipate a field-goal try down by seven in OT?

Despite Mike Francesa’s “guarantee” that Monday night’s Chiefs-Rams in Los Angeles would remain in Mexico City, our options were limited.

We could choose the insufferable and untreated ESPN NUTs — the Noise Unlimited Trio — or tune to the national radio coverage to hear “Hollerin’ ” Kevin Harlan scream all night.

I stuck with ESPN long enough to hear Jason Witten interrupt himself to explain, at 13-0, Rams, “This isn’t the start Kansas City wanted. You never want to play from behind.”

So tell me I’m wrong, even crazy. But is what we now regularly get what we deserve or even want? Or as Moe told Curly, “When I nod my head, you hit it.”

Life is filled with tough financial decisions. Should we purchase Mike Francesa’s app or Friday’s Tiger Woods versus Phil Mickelson $19.95 pay-per-view fiasco — tell-tale cheap for a “big event” PPV. Besides, it will soon be on TBS or TNT.

Both are for dopes, though the latter provides 2018 legal sports-gambling propositions.

Given that Mickelson is a problem gambler so invested that he agreed to pay back nearly $1 million he earned on an illegal stock tip he received to help him pay back a gambling debt, I wouldn’t trust him in a game of solitaire. (Mickelson wasn’t accused of wrongdoing.)

Not that Woods lives by a high moral code.

Mickelson has never been found to have bet on his own play, but this makes me wonder: How do we know he hasn’t had bundles spread around on Woods? And with an audience to hold, would either be eager to close out the other early?

This thing carries the stench of standard up-front greed — an alleged $9 million match — plus the added odor of wink-and-nod suspicion, a Game of Throwns?

Out of 10, I would rate it a fore!

Roger Goodell’s NFL doesn’t care about its customers, its players or the quality of its games. It cares about TV money and PSL shakedowns.

The Bears, a big TV market team with a winning record, played Sunday night at home on NBC — a game switched from an early afternoon start — then Thursday played the early game, thus a three-day “rest.” On Dec. 9, the Bears will be at home against the Rams, again for an NBC Sunday nighter.

Reader James Johnson: “My uncle Jerry is a lifetime Bears season-ticket holder. While he’s happy the Bears are winning, he’s cursing up a storm. Something about winter weather at night on Lake Michigan.”

And, for what it’s worth, I don’t think Thanksgiving Day should be about all-day, three-network pro football any more than Christmas Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be about all-day pro basketball.

Is Geno Auriemma experiencing softening of the arteries or did that NCAA semifinals overtime loss to Notre Dame awaken him to the importance of a game-tested bench?

Sunday in UConn’s 80-42 home win against Vanderbilt, seen on SNY, Auriemma played five subs at least six minutes and two of those women for 15 minutes.

As Auriemma blowouts go, this one was both sufferable and sensible.