NFL, MSM, JCPenney,Newspapers, Target... It’s a mystery alright...
Except for a few quarterbacks, the players are largely interchangeable and anonymous...
This article has NO credibility with that line right there.
And if you dont watch football, please dont reply.
It is the SINGLE MOST STUPID line I’ve read in a long time.
Even with the 11 percent downturn, they’re up 27 percent over, I think, the past five years.
The modern version of the NFL is a sport where the cool players can’t or won’t self police the jerkwad players. So the NFL had to come up with lame rules to stop the worst of the swishy celebratory prancing and chest slapping displays.
I doubt if anything happens to the anthem protestors from their fellow players.
Freegards
We used to watch the NFL to escape politics. To witness battle whose outcome is based on skill and preparation.
Now players are free to make political statements, along with thuggish behavior while playing a game that is detrimental to their health.
Then the fans have bid up the price of this entertainment.
Time to push back.
The ratings are down by at least one person because of the National Anthem stunts. I’m not watching.
Those were the days when the Minnesota Vikings had an elite defensive unit known as the Purple People Eaters, while the defense of the Los Angeles Rams--my team--was led by the Fearsome Foursome. Coaches could have radically different recruiting strategies. The Rams' George Allen built his team with trades, while the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry built his with drafts. Superbowl half time shows featured marching bands, not rap, disco and strippers.
And I contend that the AFL was more exciting to watch before it merged with the NFL. I'll never forget the Heidi Game of 1968, in which the Oakland Raiders, led by quarterback "Mad Bomber" Daryle La Monica beat the New York Jets led by "Broadway Joe" Namath by scoring two back-to-back touchdowns in nine seconds of playing time.
I haven’t watched one minute of one game. And it’s going to stay that way. The NFL is irredeemable. Gone with the wind like the GOPe. IMHO. My personal “boycotts” are always permanent.
Mmmm, why do I think this is a good sign for Trump?
Lookit how scummy it got after that!
Totally. How long before they get Target’s public relations team to blame it on things like the weather?
How about Mathematics ? ... the ultimate in escapism !
With the incredible television screens and clarity, what do the networks do? Put scores, advertisement and a crawling updates, on the bottom 10% of the screen, a huge scoreboard with down and distance at that top. How about letting fans SEE the entire beautiful field and players as the play unfolds? Why have TV timeouts? Let the announcers sell products with their voices as the game rolls on, it has worked on radio for a century for baseball, and for football when it was broadcast generally.
3rd link, tap sheets, seems broke...no info or it quickly and quietly found the memory hole...
Bingo. The game is unwatchable. Big time college football is almost as bad. Football is a fine game when teams go out and play. But extended breaks every few downs kill any sense of rhythm. Get rid of the commercial breaks. That would mean a lot less money, of course, but if the fans want a decent product, the fans should simply turn off the television until the game changes.
The politicization is secondary but not unimportant. Football was always a red, white and blue all-American game. The change began years ago when the colleges sold out to television and the big bucks, and lowered standards to accommodate the recruitment of the thugs. Now thug culture is doing to the NFL what it did long ago to the NBA. It's becoming another ghetto game.
I think your dismissal of the Rasmussen poll on why people are watching less NFL TV broadcasts is wrong, though.
While the Presidential election is a factor, you are completely dismissing the fact voters--already bombarded with political news (and increasingly political advertising!) 24/7 now--just want to watch an NFL game where such partisan politics are put aside for a few hours. For such partisan politics to be so evident during an NFL game is a HUGE turnoff to TV viewers, and that's why viewership is way down.
Also, I think your view is seriously skewed by where you have lived ever since you graduated from Eastern Washington University. Look at where you lived for long periods: Las Vegas, strongly influenced by liberal Los Angeles; Tampa, FL, the place where many people from liberal-leaning New York City retire there or have second homes there; Portland, OR, a major bastion of liberalism; West Hartford, CT, strongly influenced by liberal-leaning New York City and Boston; and now living in liberal-leaning Los Angeles itself. In short, your world view is mostly Left-leaning to start with. One wonders would your world view be not so far Left if you had worked in a city in the center of the country like Kansas City, MO or in Texas earlier in your broadcasting career?
A large number of Americans are tiring of being looked down on by the people living on the East Coast and West Coast--that's why the candidacy of Donald Trump has gotten HUGE political traction. Trump has become a political "rock star" just like Barack Obama was in 2008. Indeed, if Trump does win, it will finally show the gigantic rift between the "elites" who live on the coasts and the middle class that have been left behind in the rest of the country.
The NFL combines two of America’s greatest problems
: Violence and staff meetings. (anon)