re: Has your interest in the NFL diminished?

My interest in most television has diminished. I still watch NFL the most tho.

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getting older and having a few other priorities in life

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In addition to the fact that I don't think the product is that great anymore, the above is mostly why I don't watch anymore.

When I was a single guy, I'd binge watch college football all day on Saturday and do it all over again on Sunday with the NFL. Now that I'm married and have a child and can't just veg out on the couch for 2 solid days, I stopped watching pro football.

I didn't grow up rooting for a particular pro team. College ball was always my favorite, so watching the NFL wasn't that difficult to give up.

Also, at the end of the day, you're essentially rooting for a corporation when you watch the modern day NFL and have a rooting interest in a specific team. I've always found that odd and difficult to reconcile.

I first started to lose interest when the Rams left Los Angeles. I don't watch pre-game or post-game shows (except for the Superbowl pre-game).

I tend to watch Red Zone on Sundays to track my FFL players in near-real time, and the Sunday / Monday night games I'll only watch if it's a really good matchup.

None of the political stuff players are doing affects my interest one way or another. I think the product on the field has suffered some, though.

Emmitt Smith concurs with your assessment.
Way too many pelaties.

I'm no longer invested in the product. Grew up in the 70's and was obsessed with the NFL. I'll flip through games now - maybe some red zone. It's just something to do - can't even watch close to a full game. My 11 yr old is a college football fan and has no interest in the NFL.

Yes. I'm still a fan, a Saints fan, but Goodell trying so hard has helped wane my interest. If not for fantasy I'd probably only watch the Saints but even when those assholes win/lose/draw it doesn't make or break my day, just 3 hours of watching a game.

There is something to what he says. I definitely get fatigued on Sunday. It's a solid 12 hours if you go pre game to night game ending.

It has to push even the most tolerant of football widows and also the kids. My son (6) can sit and watch for a bit. But he's mocking me after a while. Just because I am sitting on the couch doing nothing.

Sunday is set up perfectly for the binge drinker though. You have a ready made excuse to blow it out for 12 hours every Sunday. Trying to find a new Breast-raunt in Katy though. If the one girl at the one place finally goes? It dries up fast.

It's time to look forward to:

Wentz
Newton
Wilson
Winston
Prescott
Luck

Yes. I used to be one of the biggest NFL fans on the planet. I'd consume as much of their content as possible, but ever since the "replacement refs" and seeing how little the officiating got better once they were removed, it started chipping away. Every terrible call, every crappy rule, and all the idiotic power plays just chipped away. The final blow was Deflategate, and how the league was just willing to lie to the general public. They made absolutely no effort to correct the false allegations released to the public (10 out of 11 balls were over one PSI OFF!!!) and anyone with half a brain realizes they were consistently leaking pure garbage because they had so little respect for the fans' intelligence.

Now, nobody has any idea what a catch is anymore. Most fans don't even celebrate big plays now until they check to see if a piece of yellow linen is on the field, and the officiating is so nonsensical and varies wildly from one crew to another.