The NFL is becoming the NBA... The hip-hop, thug, “you gotta respect me” culture is beginning to show itself in the NFL...
This with the rule changes will make the NFL unwatchable within 5 years...
I don’t know who was being a thug or not, but the reason there is all this gyrating self-aggrandizing capering and jerky chest thumping in the NBA and NFL is because it is hard to have self-policing from players per the rules. Much greater risk of affecting the outcome of the game with the penalty system, modern officiating and all the reviewable camera shots. Football is especially bad because of the limited number of games per season, can’t risk any retaliation for someone being a jerk and get a penalty if every game is so important.
“If he played baseball would get a high and tight fastball.”
—Justin Verlander via twitter
That’s why nobody breaks out the self-congratulatory dance moves and pointing after a routine single in MLB.
Freegards
Yep.
The NFL is in dire need of a change in leadership at the very top. Even Paul Tagliabue would be a major improvement over the extremely useless Goodell.