The NFL's ratings crisis

And the way some of the fans look.

 

Fans also tend to stand through much of college games. It's just not as passive an environment as NFL.

 

Exactly. And why invest 3.5 to 7 hours of your life watching a game(s) for the outcome(s), when you can look up all the results on your smartphone in under a minute?

Sure you missed possibly some drama on how a game unfolded, but you got HOURS back in return.

Back in the 1970s and before, if you didn't catch a game live or the 11 PM sports report, you had to read about it in the paper the next day. Or learn by word of mouth. So, more incentive to watch it live if you didn't want to wait for hours to learn the outcome.

And hell, I remember some papers had hotlines where you could hear the scores instead of calling the Sports Department and wasting the fucking time of the staff.

Ranting!

And I can't believe the 1980 Miracle on Ice was on fucking TAPE DELAY, and my sister's boyfriend wouldn't tell me the score, but told me I had to watch this. So I knew the red blooded Americans had beaten those Commie bastards, but at least he didn't tell me how or the final score. That's one event I wish I could have experienced live without knowing the outcome.

But FUCK the current sports scene. Overpaid crybabies.

Oh, but those good old days did create a niche for George Michael and The Sports Machine. So, there's that.

Rant off.

 

Wait until they create realistic sex robots.

 

Goddamn, you need interns. Low paid slaves who think they can make it big in sportsjournalism someday.

Bwahahahaha.

 

Fuck I'm responding to posts from Wednesday and 8 pages ago. Going back to my beer and pizza. Fuck this.

 

WOO-FUCKIN'-HOO!!!!!!

 

More "atmosphere" and positive energy at college games, too.
NFL games have more drunken, brawling assholes. Except for Miami Hurricanes games.

 

Speaking of rants, I remember one time, we had a local high school team playing some sort of state playoff game. In preview stories of the course of several days, we posted a hotline for people to call for updates throughout the game.

Naturally, we had several dozen people calling us on our regular phone and wasting our fucking time.

 

Personal Foul - dude on the left is grabbing the string on that Tilley hat.

 

Just to be clear...

LOL.