Your Interest in the NFL this season, besides the Giants

The league has turned me off over the past ten years or with the proliferation of flags, the pink and now the domestic violence "revelation" which is pretty much a cover-up like they do in college.
If it weren't for the Giants winning those bowls, I probably wouldn't really be watching anymore.

I hate Thursday games, but they have featured some good matchups. This Thursday was great.

I don't know why my interest in watching other games has rekindled - I don't bet or play fantasy - but there's been some exciting football (watered down, but exciting).

Unless it's a really boring game.

From 1pm-12am I am watching football. The league is trending in a less awesome direction but none of it has been enough to kill my interest in the sport outside of Giants games. To me there's still nothing better than football Sundays in the fall.

Amount of commercials destroying the flow of the game.
NFL is killing their golden goose.

For sports, has died. I don't watch tv, unless I'm watching the game. But at this rate, I may not even turn it on for that .

from a viewership standpoint, it's still by far the best sport.

and it's the only sport I love nowadays

Ill put a game on if Im home for a little while but Id rather watch EPL soccer.

Actually essentially none beyond some residual interest in the GIANTS and the Bills.

The league can take their ridiculous costs of attending a game, money grubbing product merchandising, expanded playoffs, night games, piss poor TV announcers, excessive commercials, ridiculous NFLN, grossly inconsistent and generally poor officiating, stupid ass player trash talking and celebrations, games in London, breast cancer awareness, fantasy football, and tolerated bad fan behavior at games and shove them up all their collective ass.

I'm all but done with the NFL. I've tuned in to a number of games this season, but other than the GIANTS and the Bills games, and I haven't watched any of them more than a few minutes, maybe one whole quarter of NFL football other than the GIANTS and the Bills this season to date.

Two things consistently happen to drive me away. First I see the zebras completely butcher something, then the commercial breaks last so long that I get restless, and then get really pissed when I discover that they have actually missed a play because the break ran over. And I'm gone. The TV is off.

I now much prefer to watch the CFL on television.

I'll watch but it's not can't miss for me. My interest in sports is dropping. Many times I'll be watching an event and don't really want to, it feels like I'm forcing myself to try to watch and like it.

We usually make some kind of special dinner. Sauce or prime rib or grill something. People come over, my daughters and their friends. We can watch in the pool and I usually have a couple other TV's playing different games.

So, we still have a great interest in the NFL and try and make a special day of it.

I play in an office fantasy league so I follow players but don't watch their games. I seldom watch a game that the Giants are not playing.

In comment 11926008 newmike2 said:

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The league has turned me off over the past ten years or with the proliferation of flags, the pink and now the domestic violence "revelation" which is pretty much a cover-up like they do in college. If it weren't for the Giants winning those bowls, I probably wouldn't really be watching anymore.

My thoughts exactly.

when they are not, not so much

The game is not as good as it once was. Too much emphasis in offense and too many commercial breaks.

College football still fascinates me though, I can watch from sunup to sundown and beyond on Saturdays...

And my Sundays do revolve around whatching football. Don't bother me on Sunday, don't graduate, die, get married on football Sunday because I will not go. It's my day and I'm going to own it.

But for some reason this year, and this has happened on two ocassions, but for the first time in a while I skipped a big chunk of the Sunday Night contest between the Patriots and Bengals this year. I think I played play station instead that night. I just didn't have any care for that game. I did catch the end of it and said to myself "why the hell am I watching this?"...

I didn't watch the 49ers/Rams game for the most part either because I had an online exam to take. Meh, Sundays in the fall until super bowl are special events to me. It's such a great break to the week and I get to drift away from school work and regular basis work for a while.

but I will catch the fourth quarter if the score is close

and Newmike for the most part.

beyond the Giants.

None.
Too bloated filled with too many unlikable personalities and I'm talking more about a lot of the owners, coaches, Goodall, and pundits. The asshole players in the league actually bother me the least.

Honestly, football is a fantastic game, but American football culture is pretty fucking dumb.

In comment 11926147 Phil in LA said:

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beyond the Giants.

I'm rapidly approaching this stance as well. Bad officiating, too much emphasis on neutering what defenses can do to allow high scoring arena league like games, rapidly declining quality of the gameday experience if you actually attend (at soaring costs), and generally most changes made under the awful leadership of owner shill Roger fucking Goodell for the almighty dollar at the expense of hardcore fans.

as it has always been. Enjoy watching games, especially after a Giants win, reveling in the victory. And of course, when Giants are in play off contention, my interest is even greater in games that can impact the Giants.

This site has many more fans that are casual rooters than it did in its earlier years. Perhaps it coincides with the Giants being relevant. See, to be more front runners than there use to be.

Just today I read, after the loss Sunday the Giants season will be over before Halloween.

Really, at 3-4 1-1 in division it's over?

I remember after 0-6 last year, the Giants actually were tied late in the game with Dallas in a game that would have put the Giants in legitimate for the division title.

other games based on the match up and happily pay for Sunday Ticket every year. I refuse to subject myself to watching the Jets

This year my son joined a fantasy league so he and I sit and watch any game either he or his weekly opponent has someone playing. He has never been one to sit and watch TV sports so, this is a real treat for me.

Watch the Giants religiously, try to catch most Pats games if possible.

as possible. Two tvs one with red zone the other on a game.
Like it as much as ever.

I of course watch the Giants every week but at this point I'm more interested in the fantasy aspect, especially the Fan Duel sites. I find it to be a fascinating game to try to beat.

The thing is, I don't need to watch any football for that. So it's weird, I'm more familiar with the players than ever but I've probably watched the least amount in years.

especially fueled by my 10 year old daughter who loves it and loves watching redzone with me. I think this site is filled with a lot of people in my age range or older (I'm 46) who wax poetic about how great the game was in their youth. Sure the teams kept the players forever and the league was more predictable. Yes the physical aspect has been watered down, and there are definite aspects that re not as preferable as in the past. However the game like life evolves, and there are so many improvements. People choose to obsess on the amount of commercials, but how about the great technological advancements such as super slow-mo reverse angle replays where they can freeze the play? Yes the announcers can be brutal at times, but we know so much more about the aspects of the game that in the 70's and 80's were foreign to us. Frankly I don't need their expertise as much as I used to. I'm not defending the rules changes that favor offense. I don't agree with a lot of them but so be it. I think many here like with so many other things from their youth look back with rose colored glasses.

affects whether or not I am interested in other games. After the Redskins and Falcons wins I was totally into the other games, listening to all things Giants on Giants.com but after this weeks lost -- nothing.

and my interest in the Giants is waning. It used to be that if the Giants lost I would be angry and irascible the whole week. It took me a while to realize it but this is all just entertainment not a life and death struggle. Unfortunately the quality of the entertainment is declining sharply.

I believe we will be able to answer this question definitively by season's end.

Q: Did the Washington Redskins make the worst draft trade in NFL history when they gave away so much for RG3?

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Im 37. Growing up on Long Island in the late 80's and 90's, I was a huge hockey fan. That's all we did, street hockey. The Giants were still #1 for me over the Islanders, but I loved the NHL more than the NFL. The NFL took over the NHL for me by far after the NHL strike but now I find myself reverting back to the NHL.

The NHL right now, on a whole, is a much better product than the NFL IMO. The new defensive rules in the nfl are killing the sport. I have absolutely no interest in Peyton breaking the TD record. To me, it's boring.

You mean that? Funny, I've reached that exact same point. I don't know if it's life-related (job, 3 kids) or what but I've reached a point where I've lost interest in the nfl except for the giants. Maybe it's maturity. Lol. I get more irritated generally with poor play by the giants bc I keep thinking I should be doing something real - like spending time with the kids. What is happening to me?!

You mean that? Funny, I've reached that exact same point. I don't know if it's life-related (job, 3 kids) or what but I've reached a point where I've lost interest in the nfl except for the giants. Maybe it's maturity. Lol. I get more irritated generally with poor play by the giants bc I keep thinking I should be doing something real - like spending time with the kids. What is happening to me?!

much less interested because my son went off to college. Watching the Giants was something to share with him.

Still remember him at age 10 going wild after the RW McQuarters pick in the end zone...

I use to watch every play of every Giants game and I would watch football 10 hours straight on Sundays. I did this for decades. I never missed.

I was really offended when they let Michael Vick back in the league. I stopped going to the stadium and I stopped buying football Jerseys at that time.

I am also old enough to remember Parcells as our head coach and how we usually dominated other teams, especially in the 4th quarter. Even though our Wide Receivers were weak, we had a superior offensive line. I loved how we built the team back then. It seemed very intelligent.

Now we have strong Wide Receivers and a weak offensive line and we have to get red hot and lucky to grab the last wild card spot. Winning 13 or 14 games during the regular season is a very distant memory.

I am so turned off by the way we draft (too many WRs, not enough OL) and the inconsistent results. Because of that I sometimes wait until the 4th quarter to turn the Giants game on and I seldom watch non Giants games any more.

the unabashed tack commercialization and pandering, the endless rule changes favoring offense and mostly the sense of guilt that my entertainment is sustaining a sport that kills highschoolers and ruinously cuts short adults lives.

but this time of year is just too beautiful outside for me to spend the day indoors watching football. For that reason, I'm so glad today's game is at 4:15.

It's not the league I fell in love with as a child. It has become glorified Arena football. Defense is an afterthought. Very few great teams, just a giant muddle of mediocrity. Laughably poor officiating. Commercial breaks every three minutes.

In comment 11927097 Greg from LI said:

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It's not the league I fell in love with as a child. It has become glorified Arena football. Defense is an afterthought. Very few great teams, just a giant muddle of mediocrity. Laughably poor officiating. Commercial breaks every three minutes.

+1

Baltimore 20 Atlanta was 0 now 6
Indianapolis 17, Cincinnati 0
Green Bay 35, Carolina 3
Vikings 13, Bills 10

it is non-existent. Even my enthusiasm for the Giants has dwindled - the crappy play aside.

Flags....commercials...rule changes...commercials....