The NFL's ratings crisis

That tweet storm was great. This one was especially insightful:



I had always thought the contracts were ironclad and that ultimately this was the networks' problem until the next round of negotiations. But if there's a mechanism to get out of those deals, the NFL has a bigger problem on its hands than its image.

 

You crashed a million-dollar drone fighter because your hands were greasy from eating fried chicken at lunch? C'mon man!

 

Google USC Arizona and the score comes up with a 3-min video of anything you'd want to know.

I'm fine with that too and I'm a lifelong watch a game from start to finish kind of fan.

 

Yep. Aside from the ratings issue, the NFL may soon be facing a more embarrassing empty stadium crisis if it doesn't address the ever worsening cost to value ratio of attending its games. There's far too much aggravation and not enough entertainment to justify the prices now being charged for the NFL game day experience.

You give up an entire day's time and drop hundreds of dollars, yet at the end what largely sticks in your memory bank is a day spent fighting traffic, dealing with parking, waiting in long lines, enduring obnoxious assholes sitting around you, overpaying for crappy food, and being bored silly by endless timeouts and other stoppages. There's just so many better ways to spend an autumn Sunday.

 

Their version of the listicles that have infected all parts of the web. Thanks, Buzzfeed.

 

Another part of the oversaturation. Seems like soon after the Super Bowl, the cable shows go full-bore on draft coverage. Hour after hour of "who will the Jaguars take with that third round pick?" in mid-March. The NFL combine has turned into an event almost as big as any game. Add in minicamp and training camp coverage as well. Too much.

 

Exactly. Football needs to go the fuck away for awhile after the Super Bowl. It's just there. Constantly.

 

Twenty years ago my weekend from heaven was an NFL weekend in Vegas, with free beer to drink and scantily clad women to ogle.

Now all four are oversold and/or bloated and I barely partake in any of them. #thingsthatmakeyoufeelold

 

Should have put yourself at a Trump casino and made it five.

 

12:00 Sunday local pre-game show
12:30 Sunday NFL on CBS with Brent, Irv, Phyliss and Jimmy the Greek
1:00 Brookshire and Summeral local game
4:00 Some version of West Coast game of the Week
No post game show unless the 4:00 game ran short
9:00 Monday MNF Howard Frank and Don
Somewhere during the week was a highlights show

Sunday morning sports section was great for NFL
Monday could only be read if your team won.

The good old days

 

On that same wavelength, I used to love watching NFL gameday on ESPN after the afternoon games when I was younger, even with Berman's annoying catch phrases. Now I've seen every highlight I need to see 20 times during the game.

 

Germany scheduled too many road games towards the end after that soft non-con to open 1940. Denmark? Norway? Please.