Dave
Staff member
1) Have the players start to get greedy as fuck. Have them threaten to strike if they still work under salary caps. You know, those things that make it so that all markets are competitive? The reason why the NFL continues to grow as a sport while baseball has been getting more and more fractured while the small markets have no chance at all to compete while the New Yorks pay a shit-ton of money and buy their way to championships.
1a) Have the owners get greedy as fuck. Gotta have the biggest stadiums and the best venues, then charge so much that nobody but their rich friends can see a game live. $10 beers and $5 sodas? Yeah, that's great. I can't afford it, but I'm sure some business buddies can when their sponsor pays for a junket. Who gives a shit about the every day fan when you can make so much more cash from kissing the ass of the rich and elite?
2) Have the rules committee make sure nobody's feelings get hurt and take all the fun out of the game. Remember when the Falcons used to dance in the endzone? Or when the team scoring would all get together, jump in a massive high-5 and then all fall to the ground? In a bid to stop people from taunting the NFL took all the fun out of celebrations. This is ENTERTAINMENT! Why not let them entertain?
3) Make rules that take hitting out of the game. If you tackle someone hard any more you get fined. The other night I watched a game where a guy hit a wide receiver really, really hard...with his shoulder. He was flagged 15 yards. In another game the QB was sacked. The linebacker was flagged 15 yards for driving him into the ground.
4) Pass Interference rules are broken. Defensive backs can't touch wide receivers after 5 yards. So QBs will underthrow the ball so that the WR has to come back to it , which draws contact. I'm looking for statistics on the number of PI calls every year but I'm drawing a blank on that. In addition, you can run up to the QB after the pass is well away, spear him in the back as hard as you can and take him out of the game. The penalty? 15 yards and probably a fine of $20,000 from your million dollar salary. But bump a guy on a bomb pass and you could be hit with a 40+ yard penalty - even if the WR initiated the contact. WTF?!? The NFL needs to fix that shit.
5) Keep trying to shove American football down the throats of the world. Okay, this one gets my ire up every time. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit about our brand of football. They probably never will. NFL Europe was a dismal failure. So then today I read this. Goodell, what the hell? They care about as much about our football as we do about theirs. Soccer and cricket are cool sports but they will never be big in the United States...and our football will never be big there. Give it up.
I love my NFL and think they've done more right than any other sport to promote themselves and keep the smaller markets involved. But they are working hard to fuck it up and I hope they pull their heads out of their asses before it's too late.
1a) Have the owners get greedy as fuck. Gotta have the biggest stadiums and the best venues, then charge so much that nobody but their rich friends can see a game live. $10 beers and $5 sodas? Yeah, that's great. I can't afford it, but I'm sure some business buddies can when their sponsor pays for a junket. Who gives a shit about the every day fan when you can make so much more cash from kissing the ass of the rich and elite?
2) Have the rules committee make sure nobody's feelings get hurt and take all the fun out of the game. Remember when the Falcons used to dance in the endzone? Or when the team scoring would all get together, jump in a massive high-5 and then all fall to the ground? In a bid to stop people from taunting the NFL took all the fun out of celebrations. This is ENTERTAINMENT! Why not let them entertain?
3) Make rules that take hitting out of the game. If you tackle someone hard any more you get fined. The other night I watched a game where a guy hit a wide receiver really, really hard...with his shoulder. He was flagged 15 yards. In another game the QB was sacked. The linebacker was flagged 15 yards for driving him into the ground.
4) Pass Interference rules are broken. Defensive backs can't touch wide receivers after 5 yards. So QBs will underthrow the ball so that the WR has to come back to it , which draws contact. I'm looking for statistics on the number of PI calls every year but I'm drawing a blank on that. In addition, you can run up to the QB after the pass is well away, spear him in the back as hard as you can and take him out of the game. The penalty? 15 yards and probably a fine of $20,000 from your million dollar salary. But bump a guy on a bomb pass and you could be hit with a 40+ yard penalty - even if the WR initiated the contact. WTF?!? The NFL needs to fix that shit.
5) Keep trying to shove American football down the throats of the world. Okay, this one gets my ire up every time. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit about our brand of football. They probably never will. NFL Europe was a dismal failure. So then today I read this. Goodell, what the hell? They care about as much about our football as we do about theirs. Soccer and cricket are cool sports but they will never be big in the United States...and our football will never be big there. Give it up.
I love my NFL and think they've done more right than any other sport to promote themselves and keep the smaller markets involved. But they are working hard to fuck it up and I hope they pull their heads out of their asses before it's too late.
