Bad news? Sounds good to me.
never saw the game nor have any intention to nor the highlights. Its real easy to boycott.
There was life before football.
You know how many sports would kill to have a 21.8 be “down”?
Sounds like the Jaguars were busy Sunday.
So…now… what is this NFL you speak of??
Where you been the last few months?
The weather was cold and nasty over much of the country.
Ideal conditions to sit inside and watch football.
And yet people didn’t.
I broke down and watched the Vikings game. I’m a fan of coach Mike Zimmer. The Bengals (the team I used to follow) made it real easy to swear off the NFL for the next two years by bringing back the biggest boob in football, next to Goodell, Marvin Lewis.
Not discounting the kneeling/political issue at all but there has been growing criticism over the advertising load on NFL games and it has built to a crescendo this year and last.
People are now accustomed to DVRs, streaming services, etc. that effectively nullify commercials.
The NFL is stuck in the over-the-air era when they could arrogantly expect audiences to sit still for 3, 4, even 5 minutes between actual plays in a game. Then they had the brass neck to read ‘billboard’ ads after canned commercials.
The complaints have been growing and last year’s ratings scare prompted to the NFL and broadcasters to modify their behavior only slightly by saying ‘we’ll be back in just 30 seconds’ and running side-by-side ads with game coverage but, of course, they couldn’t do so without announcing who the sponsor was. They are very slow learners.
Well this season the dam has burst. People tied to their phones and iPads are not only muting commercials, they are ignoring them full stop in favor of their personal technology. Sometimes they’ll resume watching the game, other times they say to hell with it and switch channels or simply turn on the Roku box.
The NFL force-fed its golden goose so much for so long that the egg output is decreasing quickly. They won’t learn a lesson, but even worse for them they can’t learn a lesson. Contract A depends on Contract B depends on Contract C.
Thursday Night games are all but gone due to complaints from all sides. ESPN has strongly signaled that it won’t - or can’t - pay another $2B for the Monday night package.
I suppose the delicious irony is that NFL player union leadership has been so incompetent for so long that they failed to get player compensation commensurate with revenue during the peak era. Now they’re going downhill and players demanding signing bonuses and long-term contracts are in for a shock.
NFL - No Fan League
Maybe they should consider giving Roger Goodell yet another raise and BMW or something. That guy has been the kiss of death from Day One and if they do not see it, they are blind as a bat.
Watching the highlights the next morning takes about 3 minutes ... so I had an entire afternoon of free time for me.
If that weekend of games was down that much, they have an inarguable problem. That was the best, most competitive set four games I can remember. Usually half are runaways.
i figures many fans like me who have withdrawn from the NFL would show up to watch this week. Not as many marquee teams, but good games.
I quit watching because of the tiresome display of America hating BLM supporting racist players. I missed it a lot. The only thing is, now when I attempt to watch, I quickly lose interest. The thrill is gone, it is like a 57 year fad is now over. The game just does not “have IT” any longer for me. That is the risk when Coke comes out with a new recipe, or the NFL decides to place a woman on every sideline, have grown men wear pink, treat 25 year old men like 8 year olds with concussion protocols and rules making contact abhorrent, get rid of kickoff return opportunities, no contact practices, , salary caps so a great team can turn into a loser in a few years, part time referees, horrible announcers, too many commercials, and so called music in the Stadiums and in promos that offends the ear.
I slept....even through my home team Pats game.
Wasn’t Saturday when Trump called CNN Fake News? Yea, that must be it - distracted MILLIONS of NFL viewers to the point of forgetting about the playoff game that night.
Hmmm, not completely sure. Let me take a knee as I think it over.