This is nothing new.
pre-season is a joke.
Anyone paying for pre-season is brain dead.
NCAA is big time, big money football, too, and they don’t see any reason for any scrimmage games against opponents at all.
Then don’t go.
I gave up the NFL and other professional sports long ago. A bunch of spoiled brats getting paid millions of $ for playing a game. It was fun when I was 8 years old, but I am a grown-up now and I spend my time and hard-earned money on grown-up things.
It’s bread and circuses to make you take your eye off the important things in life.
And now that the NFL is caving in to every SJW non-issue there is - even more reason to Just Say No.
The NFL has a bigger problem. It (and the less popular NHL) is the major sport with the most patriotic fan base. If it lets its games become a showcase for overpaid anti-American thugs, it will eventually turn off its base. You’re not going to have 100,000 people standing at attention while a jet squadron does a fly-by if clods like Kaepernick won’t get off their ass during the national anthem.
It’s bad enough that some of the announcers have tried to inject their lefty views on gun control into their football commentary. Most people treat the commentators like background Muzak. But, if the main act becomes insulting to them, it will have bigger repercussions. I know that multiple Kaepernicks would turn me off.
IMHO, of course.
It’s a business.
Our emotional investment as fans is how they make the money. We are the fools, and they owe us nothing if we don’t have the ability to say, “NO” to what they do to us.
You have to buy the preseason to own season tickets. If we don’t like it, then we shouldn’t buy the season tickets.
Stop giving them your money until they decide what nation they are the National Football League of.
I always think it’s funny, that the NFL decided to call these “pre-season” games, whereas in the past, they were called “exhibition games”.
As if a “pre-season” game has more importance than an “exhibition” game.
No one is making folks buy the tickets. Charge what the market will bear.
On second thought, since most of the rich owners are liberals, let’s demand social justice and seat set asides for low income fans - say reserve 10% of the seats for those in Title 8 housing, and only charge them a dollar a game.
Since the stadiums are built with taxpayer money, there shouldn’t be any Constitutional issue with this, and only an owner that was a homophobic racist would oppose it.
Whatever I want to watch is likely on my TV and the bathroom is just down the hall..........and there's beer in the fridge.
Grasp the concept: i.e. “money is the God of this world.”
No one is forced to go. Watch it on TV
I think most guys can think of more-fun ways to spend $350.
If the NFL valued money, they would put a stop to the likes of Kaepernick and his fellow idiots disrespecting the country during the anthem. If many fans walk over this, it will cost them big time $$$!!!
Only a limited number of folks can afford the ticket prices at current levels to begin with. If many fans walk over this cr@p, the NFL will lose big time!!!
I like football but preseason is silly and a waste of time....winning the game is not the goal...playing different players is...
Roger Goodell- the man who ruined pro football!
Stop throwing your money into the NFL Toilet
People don’t have to go.