I got older and realized I'm rooting for millionaires to run around and not play defense anymore. I feel like the NFL is experiencing the same issues as ESPN. It's been so sanitized and over-workshopped into being an uninteresting experience. The games are expensive as shit and no fun to go to and the games are sloppy and uncompetitive to watch at home.

College ball is right now more entertaining to me, but we can all tell it's going the same way as the NFL.

Only time I'll watch a Thursday night or Monday night game is if I'm at a bar with a friend.

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Yep...it's really hard to watch now. After an extra point there are 3 minutes of commercials, then a kick off and another 3 minutes of commercials. By the time it gets going again you've been completely taken out of the flow.

You couple that with the outrageous prices of parking, tickets and concessions....and all the VIP boxes sold to corporations + seat licenses fees. It's not worth $500-$1000 for two people to go.

Then you have horrible officiating and the specter of Vegas influencing games. The head of officiating partying on Jerry Jones's "fun bus". People are tuning out....and they should.

No one bought the "Manning riding off into the sunset" script while being the worst QB in the NFL. They over-played their hand...thinking fans were too stupid to notice. They are trying again with the Raiders hype and their stadium tax fleecing.

They have turned into a "maximize profits by extortion/manipulation" mega-corporation....masked as a sport. Its the snake eating it's own tail....

First, they've gotta make the refs full-time employees. Increase practice time so the product isn't shit.

Honestly, I'd do away with instant replay. Just play it with the eye test.

Interesting to hear peoples view on London Games and that they have been targeted in that article.

From my perspective living in Europe I think they have a fantastic advert for the game in the UK and Europe. A large amount of NFL revenue is generated outside of America and over here Football crushes any other US sport. The Superbowl gets covered on 2 channels, and will be mentioned on the national news. Nobody cares about NBA Finals, Stanley Cup or World Series.

I find it laughable that a Regular season game between 2 poor teams (based on last years record) is being held up against Baseball's showpiece event.

I like the bye week idea, but I think a better idea would be to split the bye into two weeks, with 4 divisions taking one, and the other 4 taking the next.

The catch rule.
The TD celebration penalties.
The mediocrity of the league.
Inconsistent penalties for any assortment of things from finger wagging to hits on the QB's. Flags on every single play!
Over saturation of games with piss poor matchups.
Games now take 3 1/2 hours to play now.
Lack of any big time hits(loved those as a kid).

I haven't watched one 49er game this year & it's not due to Kaepernick.



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Oversaturation, non-competitive games, no fun league, stupid ass ideas like color rush, too many commercials, boring ass announcers, poor product on Thursday night, fantasy football influence on the game, entertaining election and World Series and half a dozen old grumpy white men who are mad at Kaepernick.

Pretty much this (and everything else people are bringing up).

Bottom line is, whenever massive amounts of money gets involved in a product, it's going to suffer in multiple ways......and the consumers are the ones who ultimately suffer the most.

I like that idea.

If they insist on Thursday games, they should only be played the week after a teams bye.

Blew EIGHTEEN calls in favor of the Packers over Jacksonville. Absolutely pathetic. Games are influenced a certain way..no ****ing doubt.

They were talking about this on ESPN radio the other day. Even said fans didn't buy Manning going out on top as legit. Broke down games including our week 2 matchup and the calls they got in the tying drive.

It's a perfect sport for multi tasking. While games are on I can:

Clean the house
Do laundry
Cook
Detail the car
Play LOTRO
Play with my son
Lift Weights

And I don't miss any of the game action

Is the pace of play that much different than its always been?

TBH this is the reason I dont watch College Football as much any more, I see a load of invisible Millionaires and Millionaire coaches whilst these poor kids get next to nothing and are simply exploited. I at least feel happy some guys are getting paid and can support their families in the NFL.