Posted on 09/17/2017 12:43:43 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Last year I usually watched two or three NFL games a week. This year, zero NFL games a week. It was easy to walk away.
(But I will admit to going to sports sites occasionally, and checking the game scores.)
But pulling out the "hurricane" excuse?
Seriously? The board is going to buy that for his contractual NFL drain on the company?
If a bunch of disrespectful big black dudes want to act like a$$hole they have the right to do so. The White dudes also have the right not to watch the NFL. Now the tricky part is who pays the bills? Advertisement, tickets, and memorabilia, no White dudes none of the above.
ESPN reportedly pays $1.9 billion per year for the rights to “Monday Night Football,” a 73 percent increase over the previous contract. “””
I’m no exec but I think I’ve spotted a problem...
Last year it was the election. Way to insult your customers, tell people that they can’t follow a news event and an NFL game at the same time.
There are other causes as well.
The games nowadays take 3 1/2 hours to play. There are far more commercials on the games now than years ago.
We live in a culture in which people seem to have shorter attention spans. How many sit down to watch a 3 1/2 hour TV show of any kind?
Nowadays, all TVs have remote controls, which make it easy to change channels, and click away from the game during the interminable commercial breaks. With more channels than ever before, some people may find something of interest and not get back to the game.
It’s tedious to watch some games, what with continual commercial time outs, so many penalties called, which stops the game, time consuming replay reviews.
Are they still in business?
> Hehe. I’d rather watch Polynesian slap-fighting. <
Just for kicks, I checked. That is evidently a real sport! I’m looking forward to having it replace the NFL. For the uniformed, here’s a brief video of one contest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9leZ_6WUI
GO, RUGBY!! Infinity Park, CO. Glendale CO is known as “Rugbytown, USA!” No commercials, no padding, no stopping the game every time the ball touches the ground. WOOOOT!!!
This NFL boycott is kind of nice. There are a lot of other things to do on a Sunday.
And, when and if, this boycott ends, I am not so sure I will go back to watching it as much. It’s just not that important to me anymore.
> I like the Russian version <
Agreed. If Hitler had seen one such match, he probably wouldn’t have invaded Russia (same goes for Napoleon).
Watched a couple of hours of Red Zone today. All the games sucked.
I lost all interest in the Browns and the NFL in its entirety after their stupid unpatriotic behavior. The Browns can go to holy hell along with the NFL. And I’ve been a diehard Browns fan for my 70 year life.
Dublin beat Mayo in the All-Ireland Final to make it three in a row.
Gaelic Football is the best!
Because Flag-burning, gun-grabbing, America-hating babykillers like Roger Goodell run the league.
I watched college football yesterday but no NFL today.
And I don’t miss it.
“How about Chinese Tree Catching?”
HAHA! The guy has really bad form. Easy to tell he was not trained by a Professional Tree Catcher.
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