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The NFL has turned into reality TV with shows on NFL Network with questionable host and commentary and social media chiming in on NFL players and branding of said players, it's not about the sport anymore it's about exploiting the sport.
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So... it has nothing to do with the rules committee coming up with all of these ridiculous and shortsighted new rules... some of which have changed the tradition of the game, not to mention others leading to bad officiating? It has nothing to do with Roger Goodell's incredible history of mishandling player discipline? Nothing to do with the outlandish cost of tickets, parking and concessions? It has nothing to do with the not so gradual watering down of the product over the past few seasons, or having too many of the bad teams in large markets?
Sure had me fooled.
No no no, you have it all wrong.
-We want players to be able to hit one another. Not these sissy targeting penalties. Or if you lay a pinky on the QBs helmet...fifteen yards. Or 4th and 73, player touched his face mask, 5 yards automatic 1st down.
-We want players to celebrate. No TAUTING! You score, you dance, you spike, you make bow and arrow gestures. No penalties!
That is why the game sucks. Of course...it really is everything else you had to say too.
Wouldn't this be more of an attendance issue than actual television ratings? I guess I've just never heard anybody say "i don't watch such and such sport on TV anymore because stadium prices are too high"...
I just see it as a small factor contributing to people being turned off to the NFL in general, but you have a point.
It isn't football anymore and the manufactured drama is annoying. Tired of celebrations and just immaturity of the players. What I can't stand is are the talking heads who just watch highlights pass off knowledge as fact when it is based in no research. No one can be honest. It is now a reality show.