re: Is America finally experiencing football fatigue?

quote]Quit trying to compare tv ratings of the past to tv ratings of today. The older generations are dying off and young people arent buying cable subscriptions and most dont even bother with an hd antenna. If they wanna watch the game they'll just go to a bar or their friends.[/quote]

I don’t understand this though. Rights deals keep going up and up. The networks can say more eyes are on the product and for the sake of argument, let’s say that’s true. But if the eyes that are on it are in a bar, that seems WAY less valuable to me than at their home because there’s more distractions, the sound is likely off or muffled from crowd noise, etc. It would seem to me that advertising space is worth less per person, but the advertisers keep paying more and more

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In regards to watching, it pretty much stopped mattering when the CFP started. Yeah, SEC games are still important to your team, but the BCS made games in weird conferences matter, and not just in a "oh this should be fun" way, it was strategic.

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BCS was goated.


And yes, plenty of teams got “screwed”. But that actually made it way more fun and interesting.

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You're gonna get downvoted but watching soccer is much more palatable than watching football. EPL is usually wrapped for the day by noon and I have the rest of my Saturday/Sunday away from a TV.

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Yep I watch several matches of different leagues every weekend, the matches fly by especially if you're watching on replay and can skip the half.

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Soccer will overtake American football in popularity by the year 2000

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Yeah, ~2 hours start to finish for most games and the game only stops for halftime

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World Cup games were the worst offenders but again it is the World Cup which only occurs every 4 years.

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Soccer will overtake American football in popularity by the year 2000

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Even with the changing demographics within the United States I still don't think that Soccer will ever take the top throne since MLS has a very very long way to go and add in the fact that hispanics absolutely love baseball and football.

Personal anecdotal story: When I was in Cabo there was a local group of baws visiting the beach with a case of beer, a soccer ball and a football. It was a guilty pleasure watching them try to throw a football.

Whether its fatigue or over-saturation there is definitely an issue with college football.

Even when there were complaints of too many bowl games, there was a long time period between the end of the conference championship games and meaningful bowl games to build anticipation. Now that anticipation gap has been replaced with somewhat meaningful early playoff games and even those are 10 days instead of one week apart dragging things out even farther.

The NFL adding a 17th game was really dumb as well. With only one team getting a playoff bye, it means more teams have their playoff positioning set before the last game of the season making a lot of those games meaningless with starters resting.

I still love both college and pro ball, but this along with them legislating hitting out of the game, has my interest down this year and really the last 10 years.

I would watch them all if they had 75% less commercials.

If I don’t have a betting interest or team interest and I watch 7minutes of commercials for 2 minutes of game play I usually find something else to watch ad free or just do something else. I’ll check the score on my phone to see if I need to go back and watch.

Monday you were coming off nfl playoffs plus the inauguration. Tough spot

I watch less football than I ever have.

Joe Burrow figured this out last year. He wants to see two bye weeks for each team during the year, that way you can time super bowl weekend to be on presidents day weekend so you get that national holiday by default everyone wants after the super bowl.

As for the decline in popularity, I blame the owners and media folks. They keep squeezing out the common fan with the push for luxury boxes and insane prices to attend the games and diminished game action to squeeze in more commercials to pay for it all. After tickets, parking, concessions, etc you're looking at or around $500 to attend a game. Thats a couple of months of groceries. If you cant routinely go and feel like you are a part of the team then its just something else on the TV. Pretty easy to change the channel then.