Posted on 09/05/2017 10:10:10 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Is there anything more boring than NFL Pre-Season.
Also in the exhibition game years, there was a runner-up game for what would later be called the Super Bowl. The teams with the third and fourth best records played each other. Imagine how boring THAT was.
Before that, in the early days of pro football, there would be an annual game between a team of college all-stars and an NFL team. Needless to say, the scores were so lop-sided in favor of the pro players, the series was quietly dropped.
I think they still play that game each year in Canton, Ohio during Hall of Fame inductee week
It will go down. NFL won’t be on in my house til the scumbags stop taking a knee.
Cancelled our Direct TV NFL package today... It was free the black gal kept asking why I was cancelling since it was free.....
That being said, I am eagerly waiting for the regular season. But I do have one question: do these ratings numbers take into account mediums other than TVs? Like watching the games online or via the NFL App?
...the [1975] Steelers rolled up a 240 lead. With 1:22 left in the third quarter, the all-stars had the ball on the pros 34. As third-string quarterback Jeb Blount called out a playthe Tulsa grad having been called upon only after the Steelers wiped out QB1 and QB2a heavy northern wind blew in, bringing a sweeping rain and forcing Parseghian to call a timeout. As the conditions worsened, in a sequence that presaged Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, spectators stormed the field, treating the artificial turf at Soldier Field like one big Slip N Slide. They were body surfing! Greene recalls.
Fearing for the players safety, referee Cal Lepore sent the players to their dressing rooms in hope that the skies would calm and security would intervene. But after fans ripped down the goalposts, the game was called at 11:01 p.m. No MVP was named.
And with that the College All-Star Football Classic met an ignoble end. (The college boys final record: 9-31-2.) While the games spectacle-making legacy endures, the war stories and the respect that Slater earned are what mean the most to him today. Shortly after that game he flew out to L.A. to meet with Rams general manager Don Klosterman.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/09/college-all-star-football-classic-jackie-slater-joe-greene
One local Giants' season ticket holder always donated the pre-season tickets to fundraising dance our parish held in late summer. So he could write off the cost as charitable. But then the church moved the ball to early September.
The fact that anybody watches pre-season at all is evidence of the frightening power the NFL has. I normally watch the Hall of Fame game for the speech excerpts, but they put the game on before the speeches this year so I didn’t.
Six showing an increase is six too many. It's time to watch college games or none at all. Bye bye NFL, with all those overpaid crybabies whining during the Anthem.
what a pain in the butt that is, to pay regular season prices for an exhibition game. And that it’s required.
You wonder how many people would go to an exhibition game, if they didn’t already have the tickets as part of the season ticket package. How many would buy a single game ticket, at that price, to go see an exhibition game?
Watch them also...ACC since its home but love the SEC...
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