that's what it's coming down to for me... I see so many horrible horrible calls.. so many truly BAD FOOTBALL teams playing so very poorly I feel like I am awaking from a decades long anaesthesia am NOT making a pronouncement " I AM DONE!" it just seems stupider and stupider every week.... what say yall?
The penalties have gotten egregiously bad. They need to fix this issue badly and let the eye in the sky reverse the bad calls quickly by radioing down into the head official when it’s stupidly obvious. It feels like it’s worse during prime time games but it might just be magnified because it’s the only game on. They also badly need to figure out some sort of developmental program. If they don’t want to work with a feeder league like the XFL was setting up to be, then they should expand coaching staffs and let each teams have their own minor league staff and full offenses and defenses or something that can practice against each other. This will help a ton with young quarterback development. Backup quarterbacks playing is inevitable and these guys have longer careers due to limited wear and tear.
Not sure why they won’t go with the eye in the sky. Little cost and would get everyone off their back about the bad officiating. As for the development, no chance they’ll do anything. It would be a cost with little return. NFL is already the best thing on tv every nite it’s on. Better back up quarterbacks isn’t going to make any more popular than they already are.
That is why we will never see another Kurt Warner. He learned to play QB in Arena and the European league.
Aside from the Jets, QBs are playing better than ever. Fans just have more opportunity to nitpick with all the new viewing opporutnities (highlight videos, streaming services, etc).
I know what you're saying. I'm not as deeply invested now, as I had been in the past. I certainly don't invest a lot of time. I'm not done with it, but I really don't care nearly as much. As @jixxjr said, I have become a casual fan.
Shitty football > good baseball >>> great golf. It's the action involved. I watch TV sports on the sofa and when the announcers start droning and the action is slow I go to sleep. Reliably.
The only thing that I can compare your experience too is what happened to me when baseball went on strike in '94. I'd been a lifelong baseball fan, both Mets and Yankees. I played in a Strat-o-Matic league for 14 seasons of 56 to 81 games with 11 other fanatics. I knew all the numbers by heart and basically checked in on baseball on a daily basis almost year round due to my participation in the Strat league. When baseball shut down for the year and it became clear they weren't coming back I shut baseball down too. End of fandom. End of Strat league. End of checking up on players on ESPN. Beginning of an enormous amount of newly free time in my life. If the NFL is really pissing you off try giving it up for awhile. You might find that Sundays are now a tremendous free resource for you.
funny. people use "casuals" as an insult. its like the homeless drunk making fun of folks gone sober.
This could very well be my post of the year right here. Reminds me of trying to tell that nitwit with the Idzik billboards what a fucking toolshed douchebag he was being and his response was along the lines of "you just don't care enough." Fucking a right buddy.
I can understand people saying that. I was probably once one of them. On the other hand, I am past the point where I want to blindly follow and receive more or less nothing in return.
My father once told me, after watching me lose my mind watching a game, “If you’re not enjoying yourself, then why are you watching the games? Sadly, I’m not enjoying the product that the NFL is currently putting out. Could this change? Maybe. But for now, I have better things to do on the only day that I get off all week.
