Searching For A Fix For Football's TV Fumble

.tvnewscheck.com ^ | Oct 21, 2016 | Harry A. Jessell

[GOPJ]

Interesting, but what’s an ‘NFL’?

[Stentor]

With help from useful idiots like other players and Roger Goodell.

You forgot radio and TV sports broadcasters who are as big a bunch of cowards and left wing delusional fools as exist.

[Gene Eric]

>> ####

I prefer the single hash. More legible when writing the present participle, or for that matter as an adjective such as #ing beautiful.

[Stentor]

Backfired on them big time.

Also, why screw with the segment of your audience that doesn't have to fraudulently convert food stamps to get spending cash.

[stig]

5. Girl sideline reporters who don’t know much, if anything about football, who add nothing by their commentary.

Yeah I used to think it was a big deal but then I realized they are scripting every one. There are very few announcers that can carry on an intelligent off the cuff discussion of football. What the woman have unmasked is how fake all the banter is. Americans like sincere and genuine. I remember Phyllis George when I was a kid she was beautiful and could talk football. Her interviews didn't grate on me like the present day crop of Phyllis George wannabes

[Varsity Flight]

It’s not about the GAME, anymore, and this is going right on down to the college level, fast and is accelerating.

Artificial turf = unNatural

Women reporters on men’s sports = unNatural

Women reporters in men’s lockers/dressing rooms = unNatural

Arenas with jumbo-trons = unNatural

Commercial TIME instead of Game TIME = Lying

300 lb. = UnNatural

Dome stadiums = Counterfeit, UnNatural for real football.

Replay Time, constant every play vs. Game TIME, up-close huddle, live player interactions between plays. = Counterfeit

Announcers vs. viewer freedom of thought. = UnNatural = harassment, intrusion law.

Destruction of Property Rights = Renting (mortgages) of vehicles advertisements = Mortgage = Mort=Death, Gage=Grip = exploitation.

Forced cable pay for viewing of tax supported college/university sports + professional stadiums. = illegal

Affordability ticket prices = Exploitation

The ECONOMY, affordability time available due to BodyMortgage Care Act.

=Anti-Game, lying

[Boomer One]

You neglected to mention the one that made me the maddest:

8. Not allowing the Dallas Cowboys to honor the five slain policemen.

[notdownwidems]

Love your list! I would only add the ridiculous rules changes they have made in recent years, the fact that they won’t show cheerleaders but for a few seconds, and the endless, mindless commercials.
God bless you and thank you for your service!

[Miguk]

I have been a fan of the 49ers since the year before Joe Montana came out of Notre Dame (I was 11 years old). I was with the team, cheering them on, through the good years, the Championship years, and the bad years.

As an old football dog, I miss the legacy ‘9ers, but still wish my team the best, no matter who is at the helm. Until this year. That has-been Suck-a-d**k, has ruined my ‘9ers, as well as snowflake head coach, front office, and NFL commissioner. For the first time as a football fan, this year, I have not watched one ‘9ers game, nor will I watch any NFL games.

I will not hold my breath that Goodell and/or the 49ers front office, will suddenly realize that the reason this year, more than other years, that so many of us are tuning out the NFL, is precisely because of these ‘protests’.

Not the 3+ hour games, not the over-priced tickets or merchandise, not the laughable reporting (in the booth or on the sidelines), not the horrible officiating and spastic/arbitrary/confusing league punishments of players (and not punishing players), not the Pink, and not even the thuggery of the League. As a fan, while I decried bad calls, bad reporting, thugs, I still watched, for victory, for entertainment, and for escape.

But this is the first year I can remember (and perhaps because it is a presidential election year, and we are more sensitive than ever to ‘politics’ in everything), that I am angry and disappointed that rank politics, racial divisiveness, and moral cowardice both of the 49ers and the NFL in general, have interfered with my football, and have tainted my beloved ‘9ers, perhaps forever.

[onona]

Agreed. I haven’t watched or listened to a single down this year.

[central_va]

It is amazing how out of touch the Establishment is with reality.

[bert]

simple..... Nigball don’t sell

[trisham]

I hear you.

[King Moonracer]

Good. I hope there ratings continue to suck as they disrespect this country. I hope there are some pay cuts coming too.

[trisham]

Well said.

[King Moonracer]

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[SoCal Pubbie]

I think the author may have been referencing those changes in ticket prices over the decades as illustrating how the NFL has embraced the elite, and abandoned the middle and lower classes that support professional sports via TV watching more so than any other segments of society by sheer numbers alone.

[SamAdams76]

I agree. In fact, the only time I've been to NFL games the past 20 years is through corporate tickets. Usually in a luxury box. Even with my generous salary, I cannot easily afford to purchase NFL tickets for myself, even in the "cheap seats", so I will only go on the company's dime.

So for years, I had a tradition of hosting NFL games at my home on the large screen, where the beers are much cheaper and the food options much better! When I ditched cable a few years back, I'd spend Sunday afternoons at Buffalo Wild Wings or some other sports bar, downing pounds of chicken wings and gallons of beer surrounded by big screens. I actually got to like that routine.

But this year, I have not seen a second of NFL football. The protests against the national anthem have definitely been a large part of the reason why but also I'm sick of other facets of NFL football. The suspension of Tom Brady this year for that silly "under inflation of footballs" controversy is another factor. Another factor is the increasing number of thugs, some felons, that are represented on teams these days. It's quickly going the way of NBA basketball, which I stopped watching entirely back in the 1990s.

[truth_seeker]

I believe it is the cumulative impact, of just too much “black.”

Too much Obama, too much blacks in cabinet posts, too much black criminals blaming cops, too much Colon K.

So people have “blacked out” their screens.

[Lysandru]

When I watch ESPN, the on-air personalities are all in complete denial that the national anthem protests have anything to do with the declining ratings.

I have an open mind and won't yet blame all of the ratings decline on BLM. But the utter refusal by ESPN toadies and Roger Goodell to even admit the possibility that some correlation exists tells me that they are full of crap.