“I thought the NFL is the most popular pro sport by far, and looking at the current culture this isn’t surprising. Are ratings dropping?”
There was a story about how week one ratings were down, and it seems to be part of a trend. I don’t know the details, because I don’t really care. Part of my lack of caring is my bias, the Browns are so pathetic, and so reliably, consistently pathetic, I’m predisposed to be down on the NFL.
Trying to put that aside, the NFL has 2 major problems, in my opinion.
First, it’s the urban, thug culture.
Second, it’s the necessary over officiating. It’s a violent game, played by huge, fast people. They have to protect the players, but in doing so, they’ve almost turned it into glorified flag football. College football is much more fun to watch.
The Browns, currently in their eleventh rebuilding season!
I think there is no way to get rid of the jerkwads in pro-football without doing something about the super popular free farm system for the NFL. There is so much money in college football and it is so popular that jerkwads with any talent are allowed to keep being entitled jerkwads and aren’t weeded out. I don’t see it changing.
Also, the parts about on field NFL that make me cringe, the swishy celebrations and posturing, are seemingly one of the most popular things among most NFL fans. It appeals to the lowest common denominator in my opinion, but I don’t see it changing.
Head injury through the course of a football career is pretty serious for the NFL. Not even catastrophic concussions, but just repeated light blows and jarring to the brain. I don’t know what the solution is to that. That and HGH are the two subjects that the NFL really doesn’t like to come up.
Freegards