The NFL is eating its seed corn.
The game is a halting, convoluted exercise in overofficious legal proceedings, overlong ad breaks and a rule book about 10x too thick.
The vast majority of NFL teams are at best mediocre and the majority of those are flat out awful.
We are told that NFL QB is the toughest position in sports and it probably is...but if only 10 people on the planet can do it is the problem with the aspiring QBs or is it with vainglorious control freak coaches who are married to their hypercomplex playbooks and offenses?
Young people are turned off by all the downtime, officials’ meetings and silliness and I can’t blame them. Older people are annoyed by the SJW nonsense and the staggering cost of attending games.
I have come to that conclusion watching the mediocre offensive playing of my Patriots. Still they have lost only one game, thanks to their defensive effort.
They can afford now to lose a few games as long as they are healthy for the playoffs and Belichick can squeeze an extra effort out of them. - Tom
I was a Steelers fan. Was watching a game on TV a few years ago (long before the kneelers drove the last stake in) when it hit me: this was no longer fun. Between the 5 minutes of commercials for every minute of actual action, the numerous penalties seemingly called at whim when the same thing happened on every other play, and the grandstanding happening after every play by some guy that just did his job, I suddenly realized that I was no longer enjoying the game. So I stopped watching and even stopped following - don't know what the Steelers' record is, didn't even realize that Roethlisberger was hurt until the incident with the backup made the news. My Sundays have been freed up for more interesting pursuits. Not going back.