[hinckley buzzard]

The silent threat to the NFL is the aging of the baby boom. The NFL was born and bred on the fanatical loyalty of the boomers to "NFL Today," a Sunday afternoon institution of unprecedented intensity in television. The addition of Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Dandy Don Meredith cemented the loyalty of a generation. Once in the seventies while traveling in the South, I stopped at a gas station, bought a pack of cigarettes, and picked up a book of matches with the cover logo "Church of Monday Night Football."

Those days have gone and will not return. Times change, and the NFL will never regain the primacy it once held. The Kaepernick stupidity is merely the latest function to fail.

[DoughtyOne]

I think there’s some truth in that Hinckley Buzzard.

Interests are different today. The media spent a lot of effort trying to destroy the game. They’ve pretty much succeeded.

My personal beef was the sideline bimbo that had never even been to a football game before, doing play by play or interviewing the players on the field.

That really turned me off. It was obvious they were trying to feminize a game that women would never love as much as men, with some exceptions of course.

So you had the new rulings to make it safe. You can the bimbos. It just wasn’t the same as listening to men who had spend a decade or more on the field.

Al lot of days are gone now. This new world isn’t any better for it either.

Thanks for your comments.