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Originally Posted by 87112
Not me, I enjoyed the NFL more when the Patriots ruled the league and it was every year who can stop Tom Brady and Company. Now I just see a ton of 8-8, 8-7, 9-7 teams that I can't keep track of. So many middle of the road teams. I want to see someone take down Goliath when it comes to Football.
The best games were the Superbowl when Eli took down the Pats. Thats entertainment at its best.
As a long suffering Jets fan I have only the Jets taking down the Colts to cling to.
But I agree about the choreographed dance routines and don't understand why the NFL considers a runner strutting unmolested into the end zone untouched pointing at a pursuer to be guilty of taunting and a dance routine in the end zone not to be?
I know my age is starting to show as an official old fart but it just seems to me the NFL is becoming more of an entertainment distraction than a football game.
Football (or any sport) is (and always has been) an entertainment distraction.
Football (or any sport) is (and always has been) an entertainment distraction.
True, I would just like to see less of Taylor Swift by the network during every other play and if they are going to put marquee games on a Saturday of a holiday weekend I don’t want to have to subscribe to Peacock in order to watch it.
From what I understand they made the fourth quarter free of commercials but filled it with fluff from the sportscasters.
NFL is different that it used to be, but still wouldn’t compare it to the WWF. Looking back, think of the 1985 Chicago Bears defense. They could go in and just physically dominate a football game, without getting flagged for simply bumping into the quaterback.
Today, there are many flagrant penalties(especially pass interference) that aren’t called, or there are penalties that should not have been called. Officiating is a lot worse today.
Yep, you're (like me) growing old. It's always been entertainment - and business. Nothing more. Maybe 80 years ago. Not in recent times. The goal here is to get as much media revenue as possible. TV, stream, print, whatever. Clickbait. That's the goal. The most money possible. Because - it's a business.
Many of the things you mention are certainly highly annoying to the purists among us - but that's because you - yourself - did not celebrate like a nut as a child, and so you didn't grow up to do so either. Now? Rather it's NFL or finding a parking place at the mall, folks feel a need to celebrate and share in unprecedented ways (read: social media). Ain't never going back to the way it was. Nearly everything you've commented on is an attempt to wrangle more revenue. E.g, Taylor Swift focus: Is it possible that the NFL owner in question senses an opportunity to lure some of the Swifties into watching a show (football) they care nothing about - except a chance for a 100 million of them to MAYBE catch a glimpse of her? Now, who is NOT watching the game AT ALL because of this? Um, no one. Net gain, NFL. Profit. One motive only.
True, I would just like to see less of Taylor Swift by the network during every other play and if they are going to put marquee games on a Saturday of a holiday weekend I don’t want to have to subscribe to Peacock in order to watch it.
I don’t watch KC games, so I haven’t seen any Taylor Swift; however, obviously, you’re exaggerating re: every other play. As far as the Bills vs. Chargers game on Peacock, it was available for each local market anyway; else, we’re talking five or six bucks (for a game that wasn’t ‘marquee’ or noteworthy outside of the aforementioned).
That said, I don’t see how either thing evokes a comparison to WWF, per your thread.
I don’t watch KC games, so I haven’t seen any Taylor Swift; however, obviously, you’re exaggerating re: every other play. As far as the Bills vs. Chargers game on Peacock, it was available for each local market anyway; else, we’re talking five or six bucks (for a game that wasn’t ‘marquee’ or noteworthy outside of the aforementioned).
That said, I don’t see how either thing translates to a comparison to WWF, per your thread.
True I embellished the every other play, as far as the Bills game my take (which certainly doesn’t matter) is if you are only going to have one game at each of the time slots you would think everyone could watch it rather it be a streaming option.
You are right though it’s only a few bucks. From what I see the NFL has given a wildcard game to Peacock to exclusively stream. Sign of the times I guess.
Maybe not every play during a past game but definitely a Swifty takeover.
Maybe not every play during a past game but definitely a Swifty takeover.
She may have taken over Kansas City, but that’s different than stating she’s the focus of the NFL. That said, given the way the Chiefs are playing this season, it’s likely a welcome distraction for some of their fans (as any high-profile celebrity would be, particularly relative to a romantic relationship with a key player).
Commercials are the big problem for me. They're too long and too often. I don't know what to do other than have a decent movie on Showtime to keep going back to.
The thread title made me think of another annoyance: Some of the stadium announcers now sound like the "let's get ready to rumble" guy. That's hard enough to take in the background on TV. I can't imagine sitting through 3.5 hours of it in person.
And NFL-isms. Don't tell me a player had the "opportunity to catch the ball" when you really mean they actually caught it.
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