As the camera angles have changed to show less and less of the field over the last 25 years, football has become less and less watchable for me. It’s an 11-on-11 game, but if you’re watching a modern NFL broadcast, you might guess there are no more than 4-5 players on the field for either team. It has dumbed-down the average football fan’s knowledge of the game.
My least favorite shot is of the ball spiraling on a punt and we get a close-up of it rather than the pattern of the blockers and coverage teams on the field.