The amatuer status would cry for ringers to insure winning
Posted on 09/14/2017 4:34:09 AM PDT by C19fan
Week 1 of the NFL season had plenty of important stories worth following, but maybe the most entertaining was the mostly empty stadiums in Los Angeles and Santa Clara. Both the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers had sparse crowds for their home openers, and that has not gone unnoticed by the NFL.
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The NFL and ESPN need a celebrity athlete to become the face of both organizations; someone who can really connect with the fan base. Maybe Caitlyn Jenner? Michael Sam?
An inter city amateur foot ball league would be awesome. Just guys who love to play!
The politicization is ridiculous, particularly given the amount of money and privilege the players have relative to the rest of the world. I would stop televising the players during the national anthem, and quit giving them exposure. If this persists, I would not bring the players onto the field until after the national anthem.
Beyond that, I agree with you about the games becoming boring. I would like to see a body fat percentage limit (no more linemen with their guts hanging over their belts). Automatic 2 year suspension for being caught using performance enhancing substances that increase body mass and strength (suspended for life for second offense). I would also reduce the time allowed between plays to 30 seconds from whistle to snap. For starters. If they really want to speed things up, reduce the number of downs to 3.
The players salaries are about $5.3 billion/year, stadium receipts are about $2 billion.
https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/how-much-do-the-nfl-and-tv-partners-make-a-year-030117/
The link above has a break down of TV revenue. From the article the only ones making money are the owners and the players. Also ESPN loses $1.7 billion/year on the NFL.
$100 for an average seat for The Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals, not the Patriots. Nuts
The amatuer status would cry for ringers to insure winning
The NFL decided to take the side of a bunch of racists that sign the backs of checks and ignore the middle-aged whiteys that sign the front of the checks.....You can survive a players’ strike, but you won’t survive a fan strike.
Along with many of the other good reasons mentioned in this thread, let’s not forget the bitter tasted of taxpayer funded stadiums for these billionaire kids to play in.
The notion that every taxpayer benefits from having a major league team playing in their city is bullsh.t.
I agree. The penalties are a killer and just feed the announcers with time to go on an on. I can solve the announcer problem with the mute button but the rest...
I also miss the days of watching them play in the mud and snow. Heck thats what we did as kids.
And there is parking and the fun drive. :)
Average seat price for the whole NFL is over $170.
Bengals are cheapest ticket. Patriot tickets are THREE TIMES as much as Bengals tickets.
When the whitest team in the NFL doesn’t even allow 50% of players to be white, something is very wrong. And most teams are only 20%. It amazes me not enough care about blatant racial favoritism and racial imbalance in the sport. And the whitest team generally wins the super bowl! Of course the feeder system is the biggest problem (NCAA). THAT is where the quotas begin.
Much wisdom in your post. You make a good point that the curtain has been raised on what NFL players really think of their fans... and it ain’t good.
Eff them and the cretins they ride in on.
Other entertainment options. LA was never a good football city and the Coliseum was never sold out even for the Raiders. San Francisco built their new stadium in Santa Clara and their fans don’t want to travel that far especially to watch a mediocre product. The social justice crap just adds to their problems.
The other problem is the time of year. Sports fans have 3 options, NFL, MLB, and College football. By October MLB is over so they will see a slight increase in paying fans but even then the California and Florida teams won’t sellout because there are still too many other weekend options in the fun and sun.
1. PC
2. Prices too high
3. Televisions too good by comparison
4. But there is also something wrong with the game itself. There are way too many commercials. This is not the same as saying that the game is too long. It is that the game is too long in the wrong places. The NFL reacts by making the time run really fast in the most exciting part of the game - the end, with the clock running on first downs and being stingy about out what is considered down out of bounds. The ends of close college games are a lot more fun. Where the NFL needs to shorten games is not by running the clock at the end, it’s by reducing commercial and replay timeouts.
5. The college rules appear to be more simple and the refs can run the games with fewer bizarre calls and wearisome zebra conferences.
6. I would reduce the play clock when there is no change of possession. The current system leads to mass substitutions on every play. I would rather see few substitutions and the game keep moving.
7. How about real steroid and hormone control so the linemen are a more normal size? Would that reduce injuries and keep the game moving?
8. A lot of the stadiums are horrible. The Giants / Jets stadium is in a swamp in the middle of nowhere. The owners who have built good stadiums that are attractions even without a game that day (Jerry’s World and Patriot Place are two) fill them up with no issues.
9. Millionaires whining about racism to an audience that will never ever enjoy the lifestyle the players do is a turnoff. As is a gangsta culture. As mixing politics and entertainment.
“Golly, I wonder what the problem might be ...”
Well, if they ask one of them PR nerds, you know, the kind of nerds that tell corporations to use gay men in ads, here’s the what they’ll be told:
“The problem steps from the fact that the days are now getting shorter and that depresses people. Before global warming, the skies were much cloudier, so people didn’t notice the shortening days. But now they do.”
So it’s Climate Change.
It started with players wearing pink for breast cancer. It’s football, not oprah or the view!
Even when I wasn’t upset with getting someone’s politics rammed into my face, the price of everything associated with the NFL is too, too expensive. I spend my entertainment dollars elsewhere.
Screw the NFL.
20 days until the Pittsburgh Penguins raise their Stanley Cup banner!
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