For years, viewership of the NFL continued to rise as the NFL created it's own network which began to broadcast Thursday night games, while the NFL expanded it's market to England and Mexico to create more of a worldwide appeal for it's sport....At first glance, it seemed to have worked, but I wonder if that is still the case today?
As a longtime Panther fan, I was more than disappointed with last year's Super Bowl, and it was not because they lost, but it was more about the effort at times, along with the Postgame interviews or lack thereof....I wanted Cam Newton when the Panthers selected him, but grew sour very fast after the Superbowl when he refused to dive for the fumble, and then acted the way he did in the Postgame, and I think his team also felt that frustration, and this season's results were a reflection of that because it seemed as though he lost a lot of respect from fans and his teammates afterwards, and felt his effort this year was lacking compared to his effort the year before, but enough about that....
There are other factors which I think has soured a lot of people on today's NFL product, and a lot of those came to the forefront this year, beginning with the NFL's stance on players kneeling for the National Anthem, along with the Inflate gate which had no bearing on the outcome of that game, whether the balls were inflated or not?....Then there's the constant negative tone from players like Bret Farve, Bo Jackson and other former NFL stars who have publically stated that they would encourage their kids to forego the sport of football if they knew what they know now about CTE, and the long term effects of Concussions....We've seen this year the retirement of several NFL players who chose to end their careers before it really even started, and this seems to be filtering down to the College level....We've seen the last several years the drop in numbers from Pop Warner and other youth football leagues around the country and in our on neighborhoods..We've seen the left-wing liberal media hammer away at the game of football at every opportunity..The entertainment industry the last several years have felt the need to make some kind of political statement at the Super Bowl, rather than just entertain the fans as they were chosen too do, and that is likely to continue this Sunday with Lady Gaga's halftime show?
For all of those reasons and more, I for the first time that I can remember, really don't care if I even watch the Super Bowl or not, and I am apparently not the only person that feels this way as this year's Super Bowl ticket prices have dropped dramatically, and I'm just not sure if it has anything to do with New England versus Atlanta or not?...The rule changes that we have seen the last several years along with the constant interruption of the game due to replays, and the flat out missed calls also seems to cast a lot of doubt about the integrity of the game as a whole, which has also bothered me at times because some of these replays seem to be clearcut, but somehow the replay official sees the replay much differently than a lot of us do, which makes you scratch your head, and wonder if he or a family member is on the take or not, and the officiating on the field as a whole just seems to be getting worse and worse every year in the NFL and College?....It just seems to me that all this negative news from the NFL has really had an effect on how the NFL is viewed today as opposed to how a lot of us grew up viewing the game.....
Maybe, I'm just off base, and people see the game differently than I presently do, so I wanted to get everyone else's take of how they view the NFL today and the Superbowl this Sunday, and whether they too feel the NFL's best days are behind them?
What's your opinion?
As a longtime Panther fan, I was more than disappointed with last year's Super Bowl, and it was not because they lost, but it was more about the effort at times, along with the Postgame interviews or lack thereof....I wanted Cam Newton when the Panthers selected him, but grew sour very fast after the Superbowl when he refused to dive for the fumble, and then acted the way he did in the Postgame, and I think his team also felt that frustration, and this season's results were a reflection of that because it seemed as though he lost a lot of respect from fans and his teammates afterwards, and felt his effort this year was lacking compared to his effort the year before, but enough about that....
There are other factors which I think has soured a lot of people on today's NFL product, and a lot of those came to the forefront this year, beginning with the NFL's stance on players kneeling for the National Anthem, along with the Inflate gate which had no bearing on the outcome of that game, whether the balls were inflated or not?....Then there's the constant negative tone from players like Bret Farve, Bo Jackson and other former NFL stars who have publically stated that they would encourage their kids to forego the sport of football if they knew what they know now about CTE, and the long term effects of Concussions....We've seen this year the retirement of several NFL players who chose to end their careers before it really even started, and this seems to be filtering down to the College level....We've seen the last several years the drop in numbers from Pop Warner and other youth football leagues around the country and in our on neighborhoods..We've seen the left-wing liberal media hammer away at the game of football at every opportunity..The entertainment industry the last several years have felt the need to make some kind of political statement at the Super Bowl, rather than just entertain the fans as they were chosen too do, and that is likely to continue this Sunday with Lady Gaga's halftime show?
For all of those reasons and more, I for the first time that I can remember, really don't care if I even watch the Super Bowl or not, and I am apparently not the only person that feels this way as this year's Super Bowl ticket prices have dropped dramatically, and I'm just not sure if it has anything to do with New England versus Atlanta or not?...The rule changes that we have seen the last several years along with the constant interruption of the game due to replays, and the flat out missed calls also seems to cast a lot of doubt about the integrity of the game as a whole, which has also bothered me at times because some of these replays seem to be clearcut, but somehow the replay official sees the replay much differently than a lot of us do, which makes you scratch your head, and wonder if he or a family member is on the take or not, and the officiating on the field as a whole just seems to be getting worse and worse every year in the NFL and College?....It just seems to me that all this negative news from the NFL has really had an effect on how the NFL is viewed today as opposed to how a lot of us grew up viewing the game.....
Maybe, I'm just off base, and people see the game differently than I presently do, so I wanted to get everyone else's take of how they view the NFL today and the Superbowl this Sunday, and whether they too feel the NFL's best days are behind them?
What's your opinion?
