Nfl 2013 (7 Viewers)

I'm sure I'll watch it as we have now turned to the basketball - hockey portion of the sports year. Knicks are off to a terrible start, Rangers are improving, but as I'm not a diehard fan like I'm with baseball, I will watch the game. Last night I started to watch some soccer Champions League and got bored (my teams weren't on there) so turned to HBO and watched Ana Karenina. Very good adaptation of Tolstoy.

Anyway, not much sports worth watching (for me, that is; don't get upset basketball and hockey fanatics).
 
In regards to sports in general. Pro sports I,m a huge hockey fan, a big football fan, a casual baseball fan, a non basketball fan, could care less about any college sports. Here is my question and this is in regards to just the regular season, not playoffs, etc. If my teams, Blues, Rams, Cards, are not playing I get bored after about 10 minutes after trying to watch 2 other teams playing. I more than likely switch the channel to watch a non sports program. Am I alone with this?
Back to this bullying case in Miami. My first thoughts were the guy doing the bullying, Incognito, should be punished, but upon further review and also info that the Dolphins team itself, sort of encouraged this to toughen this player up. He is a grown man playing pro sports to leave and go home to his mommy & daddy, maybe he needs to find a new profession.
As one commentator pointed out, a sports locker room is not a politically correct place to be.
Gary
 
In response to your first question, Gary, it depends. With pro football, it seems that is has a more national audience and that people will watch teams that they are not fans of.

Regarding Incognito, there seems to be more than meets the eye. A lot of people are saying they want Richie back; he's quite popular with the other players. Who knows what the truth is? I listened to Philbin's press conference yesterday and he was ill advised to have it; he didn't come off looking too well.

Brad
 
jazzeum said:
I listened to Philbin's press conference yesterday and he was ill advised to have it; he didn't come off looking too well.

Brad
Whenever I see Philbin, he looks more like a guy that should be sitting in my living room explaining the difference between term and whole life insurance vs standing on the sidelines as an NFL coach.

If they don't make the playoffs this year, pretty sure he's gone............
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gk5717 said:
In regards to sports in general. Pro sports I,m a huge hockey fan, a big football fan, a casual baseball fan, a non basketball fan, could care less about any college sports. Here is my question and this is in regards to just the regular season, not playoffs, etc. If my teams, Blues, Rams, Cards, are not playing I get bored after about 10 minutes after trying to watch 2 other teams playing. I more than likely switch the channel to watch a non sports program. Am I alone with this?
Back to this bullying case in Miami. My first thoughts were the guy doing the bullying, Incognito, should be punished, but upon further review and also info that the Dolphins team itself, sort of encouraged this to toughen this player up. He is a grown man playing pro sports to leave and go home to his mommy & daddy, maybe he needs to find a new profession.
As one commentator pointed out, a sports locker room is not a politically correct place to be.
Gary
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Gary:

I am a huge fan of the Giants, Niners and Sharks as those are my local teams. However before being a fan of a particular team I have to be a fan of the sport they play, thus I enjoy watching other teams play beyond my favorite because it is the sport that drew me in first.

As far as the mess in Miami I think it is a microcosm of society today. Bullying is an accepted norm and simply passed off as a tradition. It is just another reminder that society is going down the toilet so fast we can’t even see the swirl anymore.

In any event, whether or not it was ordered like the code red in A Few Good Men or it was just typical locker-room behavior is really not important to me. The one thing I have read in the past few days is that many teams ban these hazing practices, not because of the actual acts but because it has been found that these activities do not lead to team building or cohesiveness, rather they lead to resentment and divisiveness.
 
Well gee, guess what the main topic is today Boston sports talk radio; how crappy the NFL is, they are going over a column by Thomas Boswell from the Washington Post.

It's a mediocre product with no great teams. Several good teams, then a dumpster fire filled with crappy teams.

The hosts are saying that as it stands right now in the AFC, one of the following crappy *** teams are in line to make the playoffs as the 6th seed; Jets, Titans, Browns, Chargers and the Dolphins.

Wow, that's bad, as in really bad.

The NFL does not have a PR issue, it has a reality issue and it all happened on that absolute moron Goodell's watch.
 
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Well gee, guess what the main topic is today Boston sports talk radio; how crappy the NFL is, they are going over a column by Thomas Boswell from the Washington Post.

It's a mediocre product with no great teams. Several good teams, then a dumpster fire filled with crappy teams.

The hosts are saying that as it stands right now in the AFC, one of the following crappy *** teams are in line to make the playoffs as the 6th seed; Jets, Titans, Browns, Chargers and the Dolphins.

Wow, that's bad, as in really bad.

The NFL does not have a PR issue, it has a reality issue and it all happened on that absolute moron Goodell's watch.
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And to top it all off we get The Redskins v. The Vikings tonight. This would be worth watching if it was one of those Deadliest Warrior episodes from Spike TV. As an NFL game it stinks.
 
They were talking about the Thursday night games and how lousy they are, not to mention the lack of contact in camp, no more two a days, you can only go full pads and contact once a week and how all of this is effecting the quality of the game.

And don't forget that four star match up Monday night; Dolphins vs Bucs......wow, can't wait.
 
Let's face it. Contact football as the NFL used to play is DOA. Football is on the downhill slope, a victim of PC for it's violence and offensive off-field antics. Like I said many posts ago, just take off the pads and put on the flags. Save everyone a bunch of grief. The players today are just too big and too fast for football to survive without a major overhaul. It's gonna happen. Once some unlucky player gets KIA on the field, the US Government will get involved and then it's all over but the crying.{eek3} -- Al
 
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They were talking about the Thursday night games and how lousy they are, not to mention the lack of contact in camp, no more two a days, you can only go full pads and contact once a week and how all of this is effecting the quality of the game.

And don't forget that four star match up Monday night; Dolphins vs Bucs......wow, can't wait.
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As a kid the Monday night game was almost always one of the best of the week. Now, more often than not it is one of the worst. The defending Super Bowl Champion Ravens play on Monday night as many times as Jets, Rams and Lions among others. Granted the Ravens are not that good this year but when the schedule was set they were the Champs and the Jets were 6-10 with the 30th ranked offense, the Rams were 7-8-1 and worst of all the Lions were 4-12 . Oh yeah, Miami at 7-9 in 2012 appears twice this year.

Pathetic scheduling for a showcase game that supposedly brings each weekend of football to its climax.
 
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I'm a Ravens fan, so I apologize to all football fans everywhere for the awful display that they put on today, specifically the terrible offense. It is hard for me to remember a worse display, both running and passing, than I witnessed today. The game is in OT as I write this, so I have no final result to complain about, but the Ravens don't deserve to win this game, especially after allowing the Hail Mary game-tying Td pass with 0 time on the clock. Just a disgraceful performance today by Flacco and company.:mad: -- Al
P.S. - just to even out the criticism somewhat, Cinncy's coach, Marvin Lewis, must have a screw loose. Two disasterous 4th down calls by him today, and the last one cost him the game as B-more has won in OT.
 
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Obviously you weren't watching today's Giant Raiders game. Each team had about 250 yards of offense. 24 of the 44 points were scored off of turnovers. There were five of those by the way.

Dalton must be the most enigmatic of QBs. He can look great for a few games and then simply look awful.
 
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P.S. - just to even out the criticism somewhat, Cinncy's coach, Marvin Lewis, must have a screw loose. Two disasterous 4th down calls by him today.
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He is just a terrible head coach, he must have naked pictures of somebody in order to still be the Bengals coach after year upon year of lousy teams and boneheaded coaching decisions.
 
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Obviously you weren't watching today's Giant Raiders game. Each team had about 250 yards of offense. 24 of the 44 points were scored off of turnovers. There were five of those by the way.
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Four division leaders lost today.

The vortex of suck that is the 2013 NFL season continues on.
 
Could be five with Cowboys vs Saints tonight.

Although the NFL is as popular as ever, it hasn't been the greatest season off the field: more players continue to say they have CTE like Fabre, Dorsett, Duper and now Bradshaw, the Incognito mess and two Coaches suffering serious ailments.
 
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Could be five with Cowboys vs Saints tonight.

Although the NFL is as popular as ever, it hasn't been the greatest season off the field: more players continue to say they have CTE like Fabre, Dorsett, Duper and now Bradshaw, the Incognito mess and two Coaches suffering serious ailments.
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So if the Cowboys lose tonight, the 3-6 Giants are a game out of first.

What an awesome league.

This league has gone completely into the crapper.
 
Giants are only two games back of the Boys. Game is in New Orleans. Giants could be 1 GB in loss column. That is quite incredible. Next week Giants face Packers, who will be using their 3rd string QB. 4-6 is a strong possibility.
 
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"The vortex of suck...", you're killing me.^&grin^&grin^&grin -- Al
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Listening to that Incognito interview today on Fox was painful; the panelists basically defending him (an NFL locker room is a different culture than of any other sport was said among other horse@#$#% things) afterward made it 100 times worse.

I'm about ready to wash my hands of the whole sport, I need shower after watching this product.
 
jazzeum said:
Could be five with Cowboys vs Saints tonight.

Although the NFL is as popular as ever, it hasn't been the greatest season off the field: more players continue to say they have CTE like Fabre, Dorsett, Duper and now Bradshaw, the Incognito mess and two Coaches suffering serious ailments.
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Don't know how the NFL will solve the CTE problem, especially since the evidence shows that the problem is one of accumulation of the constant small hits, not the horrendous looking major hits. How will the NFL protect against the normal, everyday tackle where the head just gets jarred time after time? Have today's players simply gotten too big and too fast for a game with rules established so long ago, when players were much smaller and slower and much less well protected by equipment? Is today's protective equipment too good? Does it impart a feeling of invincibility, of "I can hit as hard as I want", to the players? Flag football. I can see it coming.:rolleyes2: -- Al
 
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