I gave up back in the day when college football teams had more felons than the local penitentiary.
Posted on 10/12/2016 5:53:33 AM PDT by oh8eleven
Not a down, not a dime. And I’m not coming back.
It’s not merely a backlash against the Star Spangled Banner deniers. It’s the sports glut, the entertainment glut. At some point, there’s enough football on the air.
It’s not just the NFL. The Rose Bowl was down 27% and earned a record low rating, the worst ratings since records have been kept. Six more college bowl games have been added to this holiday season, bringing the total to a record 41. Will viewers reward the bowl season?
Bowl games are now the NIT of college football, anyone with a winning record gets in, so it means nothing.
And most schools actually lose money by going to bowl games, when you take account of the costs of sending teams to the bowl sites.
I would DVR the game, then start watching it a half-hour after it started. That way, I could watch in near-real-time, and still skip over any crap.
College football is what the NFL was years ago — it is commercialized, but not as bad as the NFL. Now the NFL is way too commercialized with rich thugs that act like spoiled children. If you want to watch some real football, go down to your local high school and watch there. The high school kids are playing a game, not producing a Broadway play like the NFL.
ESPN is destroying college football.
Sick of the Thursday/Friday night games. College football is for SATURDAYS!
I am a woman and have loved football since I was a little girl. The game today is not the same. I’m over it.
Last player I liked was Shaq, cool dude.
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