But the quality of the games is not good. The first month of football is horrible because the union negotiated all the hard work in training camp away so September football is the new preseason. So a quarter of the season is about mistakes, penalties, bad tackling, just bad football generally. Then there are the game changing penalties on the most absurd things. Couldn't define a catch for a few years, not they can't define a sack. Basically in the Goodell era the quality of the game is really bad compared to 10 years ago but the NFL is making much bigger bucks. Is it the golden age because of popularity or was it the golden age when Elway and Montana and Marino and Kelly and Moss and Rice and other hall of famers were at their peak and the game was more about making plays than avoiding penalties?
Once again, a nice debate topic over some beers if you consider it from a theoretical perspective and ignore that kneeling aspects that automatically ruined football for thousands.
I vowed to boycott the NFL but man it’s tough! I have been a football junkie for 45 years. Can’t not watch when I catch a glimpse of a game on any level. A perfect spiral, a goal line stand, an acrobatic catch...football is a great spectator sport. A real round table discussion on the topic might be on the morality of its effect on the brains and skeletal systems of those who participate. I hear there’s a lot of ballers that couldn’t negotiate a flight of stairs while still in their late twenties. It is definitely tough on humans.