Posted on 11/16/2014 8:10:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
There’s always hockey.
Seriously????
My Niners continue to teeter between greatness and mediocrity. 5 interceptions! Yay! One touchdown. Boo. Great at running up the yardage, terrible at getting the ball into the end zone.
Hockey gets the short end of the stick when it comes to television for several reasons. The biggest is where to insert the commercials. Like Soccer, hockey has no time out periods and the game is constant. So unless the networks can insert 50 thousand commercials into a 60 minute game it will always get the short end of the stick. Football - player down - commercial. Football thrown out of bounds - commercial. Ref drops his pants- oops commercial. Some bends over to tie a shoe- commercial. Announcer talks about gun control - wait where is the commercial??
no Runner, Soccer.
turn from that boring steroid using football to those exciting 0 to 0 soccer matches.
BORING.
I was...I am a season ticket holder but because of my crazy schedule, this was just the second game I attended so far this season, not sure I want to go to many of the remaining games - as much as I love the Giants, I can stay home and watch a loss on my 80 inch HDTV and get other things done rather than burn the whole day.
I know I know I am Raider fan LOL!
All the US pro sports are pretty much minor league sports compared to football. You could probably combine them all and football would still be bigger. Looking at the state of US culture, it’s not surprising. Once the fruity victory prancing and chest slapping displays after mundane plays became common place it only gained in massive popularity.
Freegards
Sadness Machine = being a Panthers fan.
It’s getting really old...
Steroid possession and use aren’t illegal, it’s just prescription only (and not even for all the various types of roids out there). And they’re getting prescriptions, probably shopped doctors, but they’re getting them if they need them.
1. Eliminate the Thursday games except for the Thanksgiving Day games.
2. Impose an 8 to 10 second rule between plays to give defenses more of a chance.
3. Impose height and weight restrictions (no taller than 6' 4" and 250 pounds weight without pads) to make collisions less dangerous.
Expect the NFL to impose these changes by 2020.
Yeah, seriously. Have you tried watching hockey? It’s actually 60 minutes or more of playing time, opposed to the clock running down without playing with football.
I’d say hockey has to be number one. Guys lose teeth and have their noses broken, and then they’re back on the bench after having those taken care of. They’re not injuries that keep you from playing, but they’re still injuries.
We call it, ‘Spittin’ Chiclets.’
There’s plenty TV timeouts in hockey, as well as in between periods. Especially if something like there’s a big crack in the ice or boards, or even if a board shatters. Including big injuries, such as a broken bone.
That is a question best directed at Oakland Raider fans.
ROFL! Nice! Hockey, if ya ain’t bleedin, ya ain’t tryin hard enough!
Thw wife is a hockey fan: “Now get out there and kick some ass! And while yer at it...see if you can get that little black thing into the net.”
Can’t seem to type:
The wife is a hockey fan: “Now get out there and kick some ass! And while yer at it...see if you can get that little black thing into the net. It seems to make the crowd go nuts.”
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