Posted on 12/26/2017 10:14:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Football used to be about football. Strategies, plays, athleticism & good sportsmanship.
Now most replays are of penalties and the celebration faces & dances.
You are correct. I just noted these reasons I heard, because it seems that the NFL and TV network guys are seeking any reason they can find, for decline in interest in the NFL. It’s as if they can’t believe the world doesn’t revolve around NFL football.
Id be stunned if any single factor contributed more than 2 percent to the ratings decline,
The more the NFL "plots" and tries to "finesse" this shameful issue—and the less sober-minded reflection on the actual facts—the worse things are going to get for these idiots.
Nothing short of an abject and heartfelt mea culpa—by the players, the team owners, and the league management—will save the NFL at this point.
The NFL is apparently too conceited to understand what's going on—that anything can happen in America. The current and former fans could drop the league in a heartbeat, like some rotten hot potato, if given the opportunity of consuming a superior entertainment product.
Hey NFL: you don't own the fans—the fans own you. You live and die according to our whims. You got that, bitch?
America is the land of unlimited possibilities. Eventually, some shrewd entrepreneurs will come along, seize this golden opportunity, and completely change the course of football history.
With the avowed goal of getting back to actually playing the game of football—and conducting the business of entertaining fans—instead of spitting on them and insulting their country—someone, somewhere is going to take advantage of this situation and—by doing do—Make Football Great Again...
If McMahon can be persuaded to drop the reviving the XFL idea. (particularly drop the rule changes for now dangerous play!) Revive something like the USFL he probably could immediately walk off with 25% to 30% of the fan base.
I get two days a week to do my own thing, and now I use both of them.
Instead of giving one up to watch grown men get dirty rich playing with a ball with other grown men, and paying more for your pizza and beer for that priveledge.
Yep. Its about the National Anthem. And Im not boycotting the NFL. I watched the horrible Steelers-Texans game yesterday. Lets face it, NFL. Its not you, its me. Im just not that in to you anymore.
“Form a Negro Football League “
At close to 70% black composition in the NFL isn’t that what we already have?
“...analyzing precisely what caused all of this...”
De-professsionalize the game:
Get average players who love the game.
Bring good-sportsmanship back.
Discourage injuries.
Stress team play instead of star players.
Give the game back to the fans.
I’ll second your list ...and add one more demand.
Fire the kneelers.
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My nephew works at the NFL. I had dinner with him yesterday. He said the league is pretty confident season ticket holders will continue to buy their tickets so as not to lose their expensive PSLs.
Maybe if they would play naked like the Roman gladiators did? Pass out swords and spikes too.
Me too. A few years need to pass until this current crop of knuckleheads cycle out and a new, hopefully more patriotic group fills in.
Let the whole thing collapse.
Figuring out the decline is pretty simple. Find out what the attendance is for collage teams vs. the NFL and see what’s different. Really surprised collage athletes aren’t taking knees considering where they are at.
The NFL is useful if you are home on a Sunday afternoon and you want to take a nap, especially when you get stuck with the worst early game and the least interesting play-by-play crew. Around here, we always get stuck with those games, so naps are easy.
>>Refs called more ticky-tacky penalties<<
What is a “ticky-tacky” penalty? One that goes against YOUR team?
The term, by the way, for what the officials call is fouls. Penalty is what they get for committing the foul.
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