The NFL is becoming more disturbing than appealing, and TV viewers are tuning out

[eDave]

What's disturbing is the product they offer us now.

[RobBlake]

if they offer officiating like it was in Broncos vs SD, then viewership will rise. If they stop penalizing for players having fun, viewership will rise. If they limit thursday games to week 8 and on.. or even week 12 and on.. viewership will rise. If they properly punish domistic abusers, viewership will rise. If they simplify rules, viewership will rise.

[TimeForWasp]

This is who wrote this article.

[chiefzilla1501]

Goodell will run this game into the ground.

Stop Thursday night football and ****ing London regular season games. Stop the subjective nonsense on flags and focus on real penalties. Bite the bullet and pay out on player safety so we aren't forced to watch fifth string rejects at key positions.

[tx4chiefs]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Goodell will run this game into the ground.

Stop Thursday night football and ****ing London regular season games. Stop the subjective nonsense on flags and focus on real penalties. Bite the bullet and pay out on player safety so we aren't forced to watch fifth string rejects at key positions.

Agreed and quit pushing your political beliefs around. Let the players play and punish them for not being "professional".

[notorious]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Goodell will run this game into the ground.

Stop Thursday night football and ****ing London regular season games. Stop the subjective nonsense on flags and focus on real penalties. Bite the bullet and pay out on player safety so we aren't forced to watch fifth string rejects at key positions.

It's been said a billion times: Goodell does what the owners want.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Goodell will run this game into the ground.

Stop Thursday night football and ****ing London regular season games. Stop the subjective nonsense on flags and focus on real penalties. Bite the bullet and pay out on player safety so we aren't forced to watch fifth string rejects at key positions.

You're a ****ing moron

Goodell isn't running anything

He does what he told, the most you can get pissed at him about is the inconsistency of the handling of the rules. Even that is influenced by outside forces.

You have the NFLPA ****ing with everything they can and you have the owners who are looking at everything from a money perspective.

fyi they have paid out on players safety SEVERAL times and the NFLPA wants to triple,quadruple dip. They will never stop asking for more even as they try to block safety rules and implementation.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You're a ****ing moron

Goodell isn't running anything

He does what he told, the most you can get pissed at him about is the inconsistency of the handling of the rules. Even that is influenced by outside forces.

You have the NFLPA ****ing with everything they can and you have the owners who are looking at everything from a money perspective.

fyi they have paid out on players safety SEVERAL times and the NFLPA wants to triple,quadruple dip. They will never stop asking for more even as they try to block safety rules and implementation.

The inconsistent handling of the rules is the majority of the problem. And that's mostly Goodell. He has WAY more power than any commissioner dictating punishments. And he's the one who led the charge on "protecting the shield." His botched handling of Ray Rice/AP created the domestic violence PR crisis. His insistence on making it the "no fun league" leads to overflagging in games. His ridiculously unfair and inconsistent enforcement of rules has led to pissed off fans, like in New England, who are rightfully pissed about the handling of Deflategate.

Goodell is supposed to represent all owners. His decision to let Robert Kraft run the NFL, when there are 31 other owners out there, is terrible and ties in big time to the ridiculous focus on "the shield." Also, Goodell is a marketing guy. The owners have to agree to dumb ideas, but don't discount that many of those dumb ideas were Goodell's brain child.

On the player safety issue, the NFL has band-aided the settlement for years. It's well known the NFL covered this up for years and the NFLPA knows it. That's not just on Goodell. That started with Tagliabue. Until they put this to rest, they negotiate player safety from a position of weakness, not of strength.

[GoChargers]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

His ridiculously unfair and inconsistent enforcement of rules has led to pissed off fans, like in New England, who are rightfully pissed about the handling of Deflategate.

Cheatriots "fans" are only mad because they're delusional. And because even though all their teams have been winning consistently for the past 15 years, they don't want to let go of the "woe-is-us," "us against the world" mentality they had when all their teams sucked.

The Patsies got caught cheating again. They got slapped on the wrist again. So they got fined, had to give up a draft pick and Brady got to take four games off to rest. Big freaking whoop! That's seen as the cost of doing business in Foxboro. Bob Kraft's still the owner, Belicheat's still the coach, the fraudulent banners are still hanging at Gillette. The league has never hit them where it hurts and given them an incentive to stop cheating.

Pats fans are the last people who should ever whine about the league that gives them every call and lets them cheat.

[In58men]

Originally Posted by 65TPT

This is who wrote this article.

And she's right, not sure why her picture matters?

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

And she's right, not sure why her picture matters?

Well, it's rather sensationalist and a little over the top. The NFL is still doing pretty good. The NFL is a male-dominated and male-aimed sector of the entertainment industry, so a female writer, especially a liberal one (it is the ****ing Washington Post after all) is naturally going to be at least somewhat biased against it.

[Nzoner]

But the NFL is beginning to seem over-managed and over-staged.

Beginning to?

[Sandy Vagina]

My Chiefs excitement is right where it needs to be, but yeah.. most every other team matchup leaves me bored or not bothering to tune in at all this year. I can only imagine how unplugged other people with more going on in their lives than I are. I have all the time in the world, and still don't care to fill it with game after game.

Not a surprise that people are losing interest. Better things to do.

[kcxiv]

outside of the Chiefs, i dont even watch football anymore. Its gotten stale. It has nothing to do with Colin Kaepernick either. It has to do with the ref's making horrible calls. It has to do with the defense not being able to play football. I see a pass on sunday where the Defensive back LET the WR catch the ball because he was scared to make the hit due to the fines. Im sorry, thats not football for me. I dont find that shit entertaining.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by kcxiv

outside of the Chiefs, i dont even watch football anymore. Its gotten stale. It has nothing to do with Colin Kaepernick either. It has to do with the ref's making horrible calls. It has to do with the defense not being able to play football. I see a pass on sunday where the Defensive back LET the WR catch the ball because he was scared to make the hit due to the fines. Im sorry, thats not football for me. I dont find that shit entertaining.

that.

and, I'm REALLY ****ing tired of a player performing a routine play and getting up and screaming at the sky, or walking like a tough guy while looking at the fans/whoever etc. Its like dude...you just caught an 11 yard pass. Or dude, you just made a tackle on a 5 yd game. Kelce is one of the worst in this regard. Catch a 30 yd pass and take it to the house? Celebrate, that's awesome. catch a 15 yd pass on a dig route.....better get up and do some sort of signature look at me for the camera on such an amazing play.

tired of that shit.