re: Thoughts on the NFL & what would it take for you to stop watching?

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I have no agenda here

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Quit reading your agenda at this point.

Only watch the Saints.

The NFL has been getting worse and worse each year. I find myself getting less and less interested outside of Saints games, when I used to follow the NFL just as much, if not more than, college football. All of the BS defensive penalties added in the last 10 years have basically made pass defense illegal and the game has adjusted accordingly. I remember when throwing for 300 yards was a GREAT game, not a routine performance. I remember when running backs were valuable, not expendable. I remember when linebackers and safeties didn't have to constantly worry about hitting "the strike-zone" when making a tackle, and when QB's were allowed to get hit.

The league has gone soft and has become much more PC and much less interesting.

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Am I the only one who thought the Sunday Night game had an absurd amount of commercials? Or maybe they seemed like a lot cause Dallas was up 738-0.

Commercials would lose me.

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I didn't get to watch until late in the 3rd quarter. Commercials have always been bad and even worse in primetime. NOTHING is worse than a 2:30 CBS SEC game, though.

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I already don't watch

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Thanks for coming then

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he doesn't give 2 sh*ts about public opinion

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1. public opinion is on their side as it relates to the "redskins" name

2. if anything, roger cares too much about public opinion. as saints22 put it, he misreads the room constantly. He has the social awareness of a fricking baby rattle

3. if the nfl didn't care about public opinion then there would be no personal conduct policy to speak of. goodell has spent his brief career just constantly trying to create an image as a hard arse. he wants a "legacy". He thought by being proactive with player conduct he would prevent the NFL from garnering a thug image like the NBA had at the time. Like what you're seeing now, he was waaaaaay off. He has accomplished the complete opposite of what he set out to do.

4. players wearing pink, bountygate, defenseless receiver rules. Had the NFL wanted, they could've just ignored everyone and made out fine. There is such thing as implied consent and bountygate and gay defense won't sway a courtroom. All of these moves and a host of others were made with the sole purpose of winning in the court of public opinion.

I would argue the only thing roger goodell and the NFL care about is public perception. He lacks any and all business sense and I'm not sure he, or the owners for that matter, understand why people like the NFL so much. Case in point "wifi at the stadiums yall, now ereybody be buying up tickets"

Tagliabue and the owners had demonstrated a desire to become vertically integrated and cut out the networks and just sell the NFL as a PPV/season pass. (similar to what they've done with the sunday ticket package). Whether or not that would've been a good move, that's a business decision. Roger Goodell just knows how to wave his hands around and string together "buzz" words while saying absolutely nothing of substance.

Had his father not been a U.S. Senator, nobody would know who the frick Roger Goodell even is.

Maybe if the Falcons win a SB. We don't have to worry about that though.

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goldennugget

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I already don't watch

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I don't see how you would have any time, between all the scripts you have to read

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so now?

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I mean legitimately 2 hand touch....or flag

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what would it take for you to stop watching?

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If the Rams would ever fold or cease to being the Rams I'd probably quit watching. As it is now I only watch when they are on TV and only look up the results of the Rams games/follow them online.

I've basically quit watching football (both college and NFL) unless I am at a restaurant/bar or invited to watch a game at a friends house.
Sunday I watched baseball all day and did some work around my house and Saturday I went to an event in New Orleans and didn't watch a second of football all day.