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To: the scotsman

Geez, what crap.

I do hate seeing all of the pink crap for a month. I like any player that refuses to wear that garbage. The entirety of the NFL is being overly politicized.

When are they going to replace the American flag on the helmets with a ‘Rainbow Flag’(for ass-pirates and “diversity”) for a month?

I’ve mostly lost interest in it.

My biggest gripes are: (I’ll probably leave out a bunch)

There are so many commercials the game is damn near unwatchable.

Seems no one can block or tackle well anymore. You can have someone running with the ball, with five defenders trying to strip the ball instead of tackling them.

Many of the players act like spoiled brats, showboats, or thugs.

Seems these days, the pass sets up the run(the opposite of how it should be).

They’ve totally screwed up kickoff returns - one of the more exciting parts of a game.

When a player makes a perfectly good hit, the dammed refs will throw a flag for it!!!! WTF!

Feel free to add some more, as I’m SURE there’s more!!!


13 posted on 09/04/2014 10:26:04 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: KoRn

Lack of HGH testing. Thus 300 lb behemoths that can run like cheetahs and heal like wolverine over the course of a NFL season.

Lack of the cool players willing or able to self police the jerkwads. Thus 300lb behemoths doing fruity celebratory dances and chest slapping after mundane plays. Penalty system, modern officiating, multiple camera angles, 16 regular season games preclude them from being policed by fellow players. Instead they have actual dorky rules about ‘excessive celebration’ suitable for 2nd graders.

Lowest common denominator factor of fandom. A sizable majority of football fans seem to love the garbage about the NFL I can’t stand, in fact they can’t get enough of it.

FReegards


20 posted on 09/04/2014 10:40:48 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: KoRn
Seems no one can block or tackle well anymore. You can have someone running with the ball, with five defenders trying to strip the ball instead of tackling them.....

When a player makes a perfectly good hit, the dammed refs will throw a flag for it!!!! WTF!

The 2nd is the cause of the first. They don't want to tackle, because there's a good chance you will get a flag thrown

38 posted on 09/04/2014 10:58:57 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: KoRn; All
They’ve totally screwed up kickoff returns - one of the more exciting parts of a game.

Your list is pretty comprehensive, and the most important one, above, is the kick off, which, it seems 9 times out of 10 results in a touchback. The kickers have gotten so good that the ball is rarely kicked off into the field of play, but routinely lands either deep in, or out of the end zone. This is the most BORING part of the game and really ruins the continuity of a team that is hot on offense. My solution? Make it legal to kick a FIELD GOAL on the kickoff! This would really help a team that is down by a small margin to tighten up the game and, since the kickers would be trying for accuracy rather than just distance, make for more returns when the field goals were missed. Hell they monkey around with the rules all the time, why not add a little excitement to what is being to be a dull spectacle? C'mon Freepers let me hear what you think!
63 posted on 09/04/2014 11:38:26 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Shellback pollywogs! U.S.S. William H. Standley, CG-32 1977-80)
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