NFL

[Silentom]

Sunday is much more enjoyable without foosball on the tv.

[shafnutz05]

Honestly, I find myself moving away from football. Fall is the most beautiful time of the year in the Northeast, and I don't like spending half a weekend parked on the couch watching a sht product. I set my fantasy lineup, and maybe watch an hour or so of Red Zone.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Honestly, I find myself moving away from football. Fall is the most beautiful time of the year in the Northeast, and I don't like spending half a weekend parked on the couch watching a sht product. I set my fantasy lineup, and maybe watch an hour or so of Red Zone.

aka my wife takes my daughter and I to a pumpkin patch every weekend.

[mikey]

"Honeyyyyyy, ready to go apple pickinggggggg..."

whipsound.midi

[dodint]

I went blueberry picking. Once.

[shafnutz05]

Hah, my wife always has to go apple picking once a year. I personally hate it, there are usually wasps EVERYWHERE. Then the one pumpkin patch we went to, there is this big wood frame you walk through to enter the corn maze and there were wasps swarming a nest at the top of it. Here's what always happens: we pick five pounds of apples and throw away four because they don't get eaten.

[dodint]

NFL is so boring this thread can't even stay on topic.

[NTP66]

In summary, LIIT was only referring to himself.

[mikey]

I went blueberry picking. Once.

My first job was on a farm, and one time I was asked to pick blueberries...I ate a diarrhea's worth...

[blackjack68]

I went blueberry picking. Once.

My first job was on a farm, and one time I was asked to pick blueberries...I ate a diarrhea's worth...

I work in agriculture and I will now be adding this unit of measurement to my vocabulary.

[iamjs]

I absolutely watched fewer games last year and it wasn't even a conscious decision or "anthem boycott" or non of that nonsense. I was pumped up for the season, I love the do-nothing sunday's pounding beers and crock pot food and following fantasy teams. Then about week 3 or 4 I realized I wasn't having any fun and the games were all just lousy. Then the over saturation of it thru the week breaking down the weekend on radio, twitter, podcasts and it just wasn't enjoyable unless I was putting money on it. And even then I didn't really care until the 2nd half or so of games.

This is about where I am. I just can't put myself in front of the TV for that long, especially considering what I think about the product in general.

Is it oversaturation throughout the week? Yes.
Is it not knowing what is or is not a catch? Oh definitely.
Is it not knowing what a penalty is anymore because everything has become too nitpicky? Yessir.

Combine the three of those and it makes it hard to keep my interest when the average viewer (or broadcaster, player, or even officials) can't understand the rules. I'm even at the point where I could probably walk away from the fantasy league that I've been in for almost a decade. I'm not even attending our draft this year, although that's more of a scheduling screwup on my part. But if my schedule were free and I was available, it would have been more to see the people vs sitting through most of the draft trying to figure out "who the fook is this guy?"

That said, I'll probably still have the Steelers on when I'm home. It will be in the background for the first half, or maybe I'll watch the first quarter and then come back around the 4th. I just don't have the interest that I did ten years ago or even the same interest when i moved here in 2012.

[Dickie Dunn]

Last year I only watched a handful of non-Steelers game, none of which received a start to finish effort on my part. I'd say I watched at least half of the Steelers' games recorded, fast forwarding through commercials and getting the game over and done with in about 10 minutes. That felt like more of an obligation to the team than actually getting joy from watching football.

[Viva la Ben]

Yinz are crazy

[CBear3]

Watch my Chefs every weekend. Watch Mizzou on Saturdays as well.
I never was much for watching other teams, but if the kids are occupied so the TV doesn't have cartoons on it there will probably be a football game on even if its just background noise.

I don't think the product has changed much quite frankly. The only rule trouble I've had lately is what is a catch, but that's not a football specific problem. Just like baseball had issues with pop-up slides in super slow-mo.

It's just the largest group of NFL fans are hitting the curmudgeonly phase where everything was better when they were younger.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

the quarterbacks stink and the offenses are no fun

[nocera]

I don't really know if the product has changed, though it did seem to me like there were an unordinary amount of blowouts in the nationally broadcasted games last year. What I do know is the amount of advertising is too damn high. It feels like every stoppage of play there's a commercial or an ad read or ad bumper. Analysis and replays seem to happen less and less and are replaced with an ad of some sort. Football is already a slow paced game and the advertisements make it feel even slower.

I'd have to go back and watch an old game to see if there actually are more ads than before... but that doesn't matter. Consumer habits have changed. I'm used to getting what I want, when I want it, and with minimal or no commercials. NFL and sports in general need to find a way to adapt to changing viewing habits or the ratings will continue to decline.

[dodint]

NBC starting to wedge a commercial into the 30 second timeout a team would take in the last two minutes supports your premise. If Al seems a little disgusted by it.

[tifosi77]

Baseball actually has more frequent action than football, in the sense that a complete game has a couple minutes of activity. But the difference is, a complete 'play' in baseball can involve nothing more than one guy throwing the ball to another guy. In football, there are 22 people running around at speed on pretty much every down.

[tifosi77]

A programmer's primary job is to air the maximum number of ads that does not result in a drop in viewership. Between the increase in the number of commercial breaks and the dilution of the product by expanding coverage, I think football has reached that point.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Ads on jerseys confirmed.

[nocera]

NBC starting to wedge a commercial into the 30 second timeout a team would take in the last two minutes supports your premise. If Al seems a little disgusted by it.

Similarly, NBC sneaking an overlay ad in after an icing in the playoffs was infuriating.

[mikey]

CBC has been doing that for decades...I wasn't too upset by that...

[Dickie Dunn]

Redskins rookie RB Derrius Guice (as well as Pitt legend TE Manasseh Garner) tore their ACLs last night and are done for the season.

[nocera]

Chase Williams WPXI
‏@chasepwilliams

Redskins rookie RB Derrius Guice tore his ACL yesterday in his preseason debut. This is EXACTLY why @LeVeonBell isn't in camp. Simply not worth it.

https://twitter.com/chasepwilliams/stat ... 3217972225

[NTP66]

Yeah, THAT'S why. Get ****, man whose first name isn't an actual name.