NFL TV Ratings

[Crowbob]

For me, watching the NFL has lost some of its allure. I wonder if the NFL has finally jumped the shark.

Sagging NFL TV ratings leave owners scrambling for answers

[BReif61]

IMO, they've spread themselves too thin, and the resulting prime time games are not worth watching. Between Sunday afternoon national games, Sunday nights, MNF, and Thursday night, there are not enough compelling matchups to fill those slots.

Also, the officiating has become excruciating. I watched maybe 30min of real time football last weekend and didn't feel like I was missing out.

[VincentVega]

x2

I really love the game and watch too much but keep watching less. Sunday and monday is enough for me. Add in the long delays from commercials and replays and the product isnt getting better. I dont want to see 1-2 teams rule the league but I think things are too even. Watching average teams play most games isnt compelling, I have way too many things to do.

[greglepore]

You guys nailed it. Parity is not always a good thing, nor is saturation.

[cairns]

It's not a football game it's two hours of commercials interrupted by maybe an hour of spoiled babies who make millions whining about their causes, their injuries and their contracts while performing native rituals to the endless drone of washed up football players (aka "commentators") pretending they know everything while babbling about their long forgotten glories and stupid statistics in ugly ties and loud suits.

Who wants to watch that?

[sammyg2]

WARNING major rant ahead:






I'm glad they are finally getting the message and clamping down on some of the low-lifes in the game.
I was really getting sick of the antics and becoming less of a fan of the NFL.


When i played little league (pop warner) football we were taught not to spike the ball, not to celebrate or taunt, not to act like horses-asses on the field because that demonstrated poor sportsmanship.

In junior high, same thing. Act like a little dickhead, get a penalty flag and an ass chewing from the coach.

In high school nothing changed, we did not spike the ball or go through a tribal dance or ritual in the end zone every time we did our job.

We HANDED the football to the ref after scoring.
When we got tackled we left the ball on the ground where we landed.
When we got a first down we didn't act like damn fools and exaggerate a first down motion, that was the ref's job.

I played defensive tackle and center, and wasn't good enough or big enough to play at the college level but guess what? Most of the same rules apply there.

No show-boating, no tribal crap, no making an ass out of yourself on the field.

But then we get to the NFL and sportsmanship no longer applies, you can be an O'delllll beckham-ass and be famous. You can be a dick-head sherman and make millions.
You can be a low-life second class POS and the announcers say, Oh look at him having fun out there.
At the level where role models and representative behavior is at its most important, they act the worst.

I remember Marcus Allen, handing the ball to the ref.
I remember Jerry Rice dropping the ball in the end zone after scoring as if it were no big deal, and he kept his mouth shut all the while.
Barry Sanders handled the ball to the ref after scoring. He didn't flip it, he handed it to him. No dance, no sharpies, no gimmicks.
We had one player who didn't celebrate, he just knelt down and said a prayer of thanks and he nearly got lynched he was hated so much by the scum.
Frank Gifford simply threw the ball to a random fan in the stands, until it started costing him $50 per.
They were GREAT players and role models on the field.


My favorite pro team is the patriots.
Mostly because they don't allow show-boating or acting like a low-like street punk from the ghetto as much as the other teams.
And don't give me that BS cheating crap, just sour grapes from looooosers.

The decline can all be traced back to that king of POS, Cassius moo-hamm-mud ali clay.

Sportsmanship, class, dignity, respectfulness all ended with him and his big mouth and it's been a downhill cultural decline ever since then.


BTW i record all the football games I want ot watch and can zip through them i less than an hour by FFing through the commercials.

[Rikao4]

if they start knee-capping during the break..
I might tune in ..
was never a fan..
but the Lady was..
was..

Rika