Posted on 11/01/2026 6:40:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump has never been shy about sharing his opinions on the NFL. But at a campaign rally on Sunday, he took things a step further, questioning why anyone would want to watch football at all.
Speaking in Iowa ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump went on yet another rant about the NFL’s kickoff rule. He called the sport “boring as h***” and even claimed that he skips the start of games to avoid watching kickoffs.
The NFL introduced its “dynamic kickoff” ahead of the 2024 season in an effort to reduce injuries and encourage more returns. Under the format, players on the kicking team line up much closer to the receiving team, cutting down on high-speed collisions.
The rule worked well enough that the league made it permanent. But Trump has repeatedly complained about it, going back to September 2024, when he called it the “beginning of the end” for the league.
Trump was in Iowa on Sunday to campaign for Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, with the midterm elections just two days away. But as he often does, he went off on a number of tangents, including the state of football.
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A 1 hour game that takes 3 hours.
Nothing is as boring as golf. But maybe Trump has confused American football with soccer.
I gradually started losing interest in the NFL 30 years ago and gave up on it entirely by about 25 years ago. I haven’t watched since....and I grew up as a big NFL fan in the 1980s.
Unlimited free agency, the pussification rules, Leftist politics being pushed, etc etc. They ruined what had once been great.
Wrapping that game in a 3+ hour series of television commercials will go down as one of the biggest cons in the history of human civilization.
I never could comprehend the idea of an adult sitting and watching someone else play a game. we play games as children. So too as adults. But WATCHING someone else play? It’s a poor substitute for, say, Spartans vs. Persians in real time with real risks. Otherwise I’ll just stay in Athens and discuss politics.
The stadiums look like NASCAR fire/driver suits.
It is all about the money, not the sport. It is disgusting.
NFL: Negros, Felons, and Liberals.
Plays “Black National Anthem”.
Total unsportsmanlike conduct, Chimpouts on every play.
More fights and ejections in a single season than in the entire history of the NFL.
It’s rigged too, just look at the scores, tie scores to make every game a dead heat to the end.
Also, more amateur penalties like holding and offsides that High School players would laugh at them. Supposed pros that can’t play by the rules.
I gotta agree with the President on this one. We do not watch football, and yes, it’s boring as hell.
At my last job I told the co-workers I didn’t watch football when they tried to discuss a couple games with me. So the idiots said they’d pick a team for me to watch.
Funny that. Years ago the football team I followed would routinely blow games in the last two minutes. I wanted to start a website called “Last2minutes.com” Why waste my whole afternoon. It applies to many sports actually. Basketball being one.
I havent watched any sports in a long time.......especially football. Where I live it is the best weather of the year so I get out in it and DO something.
I have started watching only sports where to you have to win to get paid (not counting indorsements but those too are driven by winners). Golf, rodeo and some other individual sports. Don’t make the cut in golf and finish in the top 10 you don’t get a big payday.
(Grown Men in Stretchy shorts
Patting Each Other....)
NEVER tune in for
The Democratic National Convention...
Just guessing...
NFL football is boring and slow moving due to all the commercial $$$ interruptions and timeouts. I understand are there no timeouts into professional soccer.
Proves that I haven’t watched football in quite a while - I had no idea of what a “dynamic kickoff” is - had to look it up.
Trump is right. The only thing more boring than football is the NBA. The Lesbian NBA is worse than that.
Dynamic kickoff is goofy. I understand why they’re doing it. Just place the ball at the 20 yardline.
I’ve felt that way about football and all sports for decades, ever since I was a little kid.
Except for water breaks. But yes, that was my experience when I was watching the World Cup.
Lol. Every mlb team spends million on analytics, and Milwaukee is one of the king of analytics
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