Posted on 11/26/2018 11:00:11 AM PST by blam
With only five more weeks of regular season play, the NFL is still the object of scorn on social media as fans wonder why stadiums from coast to coast have loads of empty seats.
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The media’s idea of improving NASCAR ratings will be to add some bull-dykes, twinks and trannies as drivers.
Two points:
The latest rumor on Boston Sports Radio is that Bellichick is leaving at the end of this season to go to Cleveland. That he really was trying to draft Baker Mayfield at the beginning of this season and did not want to keep Jimmy G.
The Patriots Monday night football game against the Bills had a higher Boston area TV audience than all but ONE of the World Series Red Sox games. So, I am not sure I agree with your hierarchy designation. I would rank in audience support Pats, Sox, Celtics, Bruins, Revolution(soccer , Ha Ha).
You certainly jumped to the ugliest possible conclusion with apparent glee there, bigdaddy45. Now why would you want to do that to a fellow FReeper? It's well-known in NASCAR circles that Brian France and NASCAR seriously jumped the shark on the PC, to the point of actually telling their legendarily loyal fanbase that they didn't want or need a bunch of redneck fans. That's a great way to kill the franchise and that's precisely what they did. Lavish minority outreach was just a symptom, it wasn't the disease. But, constantly singing the praises of Danica Patrick was certainly the source of much mockery and merriment. She just wasn't that great of a driver despite vagina.
Oh, for the days of Earnhardt, Sr.
(sigh...)
I haven’t watched a single NFL game since 2016.
And no other sporting events either.
I do like and watch Nascar races though.
Those multicolor painted bleachers almost look like people in those empty speedway stands, don’t they?
The NFL has ordered the networks covering games with open seats not to pan the crowd, or lack thereof.
OT...parking a car to see the chargers cost’s $100 smackers. At least they are playing well.
Were there any kneelers at the Patriots/Jets game yesterday?
I hope they are destroyed. Completely.
An NCAAF star getting a contract from the NFL might be a lot like a newly-graduated automotive engineer getting a job offer from General Motors’ Chevy Volt Division
I quite watching and going to the 5 races we did every year after Earnhardt passed away.
That and getting mugged more and more each year for tickets, hotels, gas and food etc.etc.
Just wasnt worth it anymore.
Not that I heard about.
That fad has thankfully passed.
And it’s over -exposed. Driving around in a circle for 3 hours is not interesting enough to support 30 iterations. All while using the same car and the same motor...if I had to come up with a definition of boring from scratch...that would get me 90% there.
People have finally figured this out.
The “Beauty Contest” aspect is good for college football, because it gets people talking about it. It’s what sets it apart from the other sports. You want to limit the number of games, because of the possibility of injuries, and you’d want a weaker conference champion, like from the Pac-12 to have to work a lot harder to get the title, than the SEC Champion.
Now what I would like to see, is tougher schedules for all the teams in order to get a better gauge of who the best teams are. I proposed having two randomly-chosen outside-conference opponents of relatively equal strength, to replace the usual cream puff games teams play.
Ticket prices are high. Traffic is bad. Food and drink at the stadium is of poor quality and expensive.
Put on top of that the ability to see just about any game on TV with either NFL Sunday Ticket or visiting a bar with NFL Sunday Ticket, and who the heck wants to go to a game?
NASCAR went into the toilet when they started changing the rules.
The first was: you cannot pit on the first lap of a caution if you are not on the lead lap.
From that point forward, if you went a lap down, you were done and might as well save your equipment, go back to the garage and get a head start on the next event.
I tuned out shortly after and haven’t been back to a NASCAR event in 25 years and have not watched on TV in at least that long.
NFL...former Buffalo Bills fan. Couldn’t get it done, and it’s been 20 years since they made the playoffs.
That won't be the case for much longer.
In addition to the fans’ alienation from the players (kneeling, arrests, anti-white racism, etc...), there are a host of factors hurting the NFL:
1. Alternatives including staying home and watching on a 70” screen in high def.
2. Crazy times for games - how many Giants fans want to be in the middle of nowhere at a game ending at midnight on a work night.
3. Bad locations for stadiums. For example - the Meadowlands.
4. Ticket prices and overall cost of going to a game.
5. Youth’s inability to sit still for 4 hours (would rather have the “Red Zone” channel jumping from game to game while they sit on couch staring at their phones).
6. Wussification of America - they probably identify more with soccer players.
7. NFL rules being unnecessarily more complicated than NCAA and consequently games that rush through the exciting part (last few minutes) while taking forever on the earlier, less exciting part.
8. Free agency.
9. Baseball mentality of statistics and “fantasy football”
10. Unnatural sizes of linemen that do not occur naturally absent the use of steroids, resulting in unnecessary injuries.
I forgot another factor: the classless behavior of so many fans rendering the games unfriendly to families. I have been to games of the Giants, Jets, Bills, Eagles and probably some others and it is impossible to spend a day with the family without being exposed to a lot of complete and utter lowlifes.
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