Saturday’s Army-Navy game presented CBS with a serious dilemma.

With no overt all-about-me showboating during the game, CBS could not enact its usual: slow-motion replays of players performing post-play demonstrations of excessive self-regard.

Egads! CBS was stuck! It had to concentrate on football!

Earlier, on ESPN, undefeated Duke was being beaten at Boston College, although the graphics showed the Blue Devils to be the team in blue — they were in Nike black — and BC as the team in maroon — it wore Under Armour gray, as both schools abandoned their colors on outside money orders.

While ESPN spends hours promoting basketball, showing the games to the nation with context-applied sense has regularly escaped it over the last 25 years.

As the game — a close one — drew to a close, ESPN again did all it could to place viewers in the eyewitness protection program. With the ball in play and under 1:30 left, we saw the benches, cheerleaders, the crowd, close-ups of players — everything except the game.

Again, when it was paramount to stay on the court, to stay on the game, TV treated us to the indiscriminate, habit-formed sights of people watching it.

The play that sealed it for BC — a foul away from the ball — was shrouded behind a too-large, misplaced logo in the bottom middle of the screen, that is, over the floor.

But ESPN continues to wreck every sport it touches.

Its Thursday night college football awards show from Atlanta, judging by the chosen action clips of the candidates, indicated eligibility was predicated on post-play ain’t-I-great me-dancing as opposed to skilled football.

Of course, there was no mention the student-athletes gathered in Atlanta were missing two or three more days of classes, but that national con is now a given.

Much the same, Saturday, when ESPN/ABC presented “The Herbies,” Kirk Herbstreit’s annual top college players show starring the All About Me Dancers.

Herbstreit even complimented one player for learning “to play with swag,” now the dubious substitute for determination. He did not mention that swag has increasingly led to games being lost to misconduct penalties.

But Army-Navy threw TV a changeup, got it off its game. The focus was forced to become hard-played, team-first, team-only, mutual-respect football. Scandalous.

Common sense work from FOX, Sunday, first anticipating a big crowd response to Eli Manning taking the field in Cowboys-Giants, then from play-by-player Kevin Burkhardt, who allowed the applause to be heard, no explanation needed.

But the self-evident soon came attached to speeches. After Dallas WR Dez Bryant dropped a first-quarter pass, then Manning missed an open receiver, analyst Charles Davis, trying too hard to please, began to deliver dissertations on how such happenstances are not in their teams’ best interests.

And how did the first half conclude without any focus — by FOX and the Cowboys — on Dallas’s normally irrepressible TE Jason Witten? First time he was mentioned was with 7:01 left in the third, when called for holding.

But these are times when the unneeded is addressed, the needed ignored. And little seen is so self-evident that it shouldn’t be escorted by silly words.

In the first quarter of Thursday night’s NBC/NFLN Saints-Falcons, Atlanta WR Julio Jones caught a pass then began to run toward the goal line, angling toward the left sideline to avoid defenders — as Mike Tirico hollered that Jones is “running with purpose!”

Then again, with Cris Collinsworth making a speech after every play, perhaps this was the only time Tirico figured he’d be heard.

Good to the last drop: Given that no one knows “Cash” — Yankees’ GM Brian Cashman — as well as Mike Francesa, one or two might have believed Sitting Bull when he dismissed a caller, Friday, for suggesting the Yanks make a deal for Giancarlo Stanton.

Francesa, despite a career larded with I-know-better declarations that quickly turn out to be colossally wrong — sensational errors of self-inflated, even delusional arrogance he ignores or revises in pathetic, dishonest transparencies — said Stanton-to-Yanks is just expected foolish fan talk; it won’t happen because “it makes no sense.”

Of course, as Francesa dismissed the mere suggestion the Yanks are interested in Stanton, the Yanks were finalizing their deal to land Stanton.

And, as reader/Packer fan Mark Dantonio emailed Sunday at 9:27 a.m., he figured Green Bay was doomed when Francesa “guaranteed they’d beat the 0-12 Browns.” He finally got one right. And it was never in doubt. The Browns lost in OT.

Sunday’s column about NFL ticket and PSL-holders being treated as taken-for-granted, money-burning saps — bad teams get good starting times, good teams get the most onerous, worsening-weather, sunless, late and later starts — led reader David Schor to note the Steelers’ TV money-centric schedule, all outdoor games except the first, since late October:

Oct. 29, at Detroit, 8:30 p.m.
Nov. 16, home vs. Tennessee, 8:30 p.m.
Nov. 26, home vs. Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 4, at Cincinnati, 8:30 p.m.
Last night, home vs. Baltimore, 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 17, home vs. New England, 4:30 p.m.
Dec. 25, at Houston, 4:30 p.m.
Nov. 12’s Steelers at 3-7 Colts began at 1 p.m. and their regular season will conclude with a patrons-friendly 1 p.m. game in Pittsburgh — against the now 0-13 Browns.

Oh, the Steelers are another PSL team.

Here’s to the men and women of horse racing network TVG, who have joined horsemen and women at Southern California’s Del Mar racetrack in helping to evacuate, clothe and feed predominantly poor backstretch workers, victims of the wildfires.

Manhattan College played three games in three days in Florida just before Thanksgiving break. Then, as seen on CBSSN, it played two games in successive days in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This Saturday it plays at Tulsa. Basketball must be somewhere in the school charter.

Saturday at the buzzer of BC’s home win against Duke, thousands stormed the court. A clear, present and now obligatorily dangerous scene was exacerbated as the arena lights dimmed to near darkness. Perhaps this was done for better flash-photography among those audience participants taking selfies.

Given that Aaron Boone worked at ESPN, he surely noticed that ESPN regularly compiled and presented Giancarlo Stanton’s home-run posing. Two seasons ago, the Marlins fell from a playoff race when Stanton was injured trying to reach second; he got a late start after presumptive languishing near home.

We’ve reached the point where NFL game voices don’t hide the fact that players have been suspended — Ezekiel Elliott’s twice was addressed on FOX, Sunday — but no mention of why. That would be impolite.