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Do you follow the NFL (other sports) as much as you did?

Big Blue '56 : 8/8/2022 7:28 am
There was a time, back in the 80s and 90s that game anticipation was extremely high. There were team articles during the week, but very little practice info. Occasionally, something would leak, so as a rule, I was stress-free during the week as the only tension I felt was the upcoming game. Parcells saw to that. Thankfully.

I won’t rip social media per se as I love my iPad and all the access to life (I never do twitter or any other app save for FB), but I really admire the present generations given how well you take in all the stresses that social media provides on a minute by minute basis. I refuse to do it. It would be extremely unhealthy for my emotional being.

So, save for the Rangers and the Giants, I stay away from the day to day stresses of sports and simply peek at standings from time to time to see how certain teams I’ve favored all my life, are doing. Much “healthier” that way. FOR ME..

Sure the rule changes in the NFL are brutal (though in many ways address player safety and that’s a good thing) and it’s a big reason why my overall NFL interest has waned.

Again, I admire how many of you can take the incessant info pouring out of all types of media 24/7. Kudos..
This is a great question  
jvm52106 : 8/8/2022 7:37 am : link
Bruce. Honestly, I used to follow most of the major sports- MLB, NHL , NBA, College Football, College Basketball, Boxing and Nascar.

Now, I am a fan of a baseball team but almost never watch them or any game honestly. NBA never watch it anymore. NHL, rarely watch.

I am a big NFL fan but even that isn't the way it used to be. The demands of daily life, the involvement of too much exterior crap to the games themselves has turned me off some.

I can say I truly love the Giants and it is still a all year around thing for me but, it would feel so much better if we weren't a joke around the league.
I’m not trying to be funny, but back in the 80s and 90s,  
DonnieD89 : 8/8/2022 7:43 am : link
I was in my 20s and 30s. I could stay up late and watch all the games. I can’t even stay up and watch Monday or Thursday Night Football. I have to get up early and plus my age doesn’t allow it. I think that’s a factor also. I remember the Red Sox winning the World Series in 2018. I’m a diehard Red Sox fan and I missed most of the World Series games.
I still watch the Giants and Yankees  
section125 : 8/8/2022 7:55 am : link
as much as I ever did.
Stopped watching NASCAR - no reason
The Knicks suck so I stopped watching NBA
When I moved I lost MSG, so rarely watch the Rangers, but at least follow them
I watch a lot more soccer then I ever did
I watch more golf because it is almost always available
NFL I follow more. Other sports no. Hardly care  
Blue21 : 8/8/2022 7:55 am : link
about them except hockey. Even that one not as much.
I'd like to think I do,  
bLiTz 2k : 8/8/2022 8:01 am : link
But as life goes on it becomes harder...in my mid 30s now, moved out of NY, and have a family of my own. In my late teens and 20s I'd watch every Rangers, Mets, Knicks game I could...and of course would never miss a Giants game live.

I catch more highlights than I do games, and it hasn't helped that my rooting interests haven't exactly been entertaining over the recent years.

I will say that I'm starting to get into it again with the resurgence of the Mets and Rangers. Even getting my wife into it where she knows a lot of the players.

If the Giants become relevant again I'd like to think I'd be just as exuberant as I was when I was a kid...hopefully lol.
Always been a football first and then  
mfjmfj : 8/8/2022 8:08 am : link
everything else fan. However, I would say my attention to the Giants is half what it used to be and my attention to everything else has gone to near zero. Probably 10 hours a week that I used to spend on non Giants NFL, CFB, Knicks, Yankees, Rangers (pretty much in that order) is all gone. Still pay tangential attention to the Knicks, but mostly because my youngest is a big basketball fan.

And at risk of millering the thread, I don't think the younger generation is any good at handling the social media explosion and it is doing them (and us) great emotional harm.
I used to watch every national televised game  
Gman11 : 8/8/2022 8:24 am : link
on TV. Thursday, Sunday night, Monday night I was parked in front of the TV and it didn't matter that the game ended after midnight and I had to go to work the next day.

Now, I watch the Giants and that's about it. Oh, I might catch parts of another game if it's raining out and I have nothing else to do.

I watch the Rangers (every game except those west coast games) and will watch other NHL games because hockey is my favorite sport to watch now.

I'll try to make time to watch the EPL, but NBC isn't very cooperative and I'm not ponying up for a subscription to peacock+.

That's about it. I quit following baseball back in the early '90s. Basketball, I couldn't name 5 NBA players.

College football/basketball doesn't interest me at all.

Basically, I rather go for a walk or play pickleball than sit on my ass watching most sports. You would think as I get older I would be more prone to sitting in front of the TV, but it's just the opposite.

I follow the Giants as much as I ever have.  
BLUATHRT : 8/8/2022 8:25 am : link
But because of life and commitments and required energy outputs for family and work, baseball and hockey aren't what they used to be. I would religiously watch over 100 yankees games a year and now I see maybe 20, not including playoffs.
Football...  
Brown_Hornet : 8/8/2022 8:25 am : link
...maybe too much.

I also don't do SM outside of here and FB.

August is all about installs and INDYs. 2-a-days start today!

Stay positive. Don't let the noise drag you to a bad place.

Go Giants!
For a multitude of reasons  
bradshaw44 : 8/8/2022 8:29 am : link
I don’t follow sports like I used to. Baseball was the first casualty. I love baseball as a kid. Collected cards, new everything about all the players even on rival teams. Then I got to college and baseball fell off a cliff in my eyes.

Football was my life from around 1985-2015. All the sucking snd ruining my Mondays took its toll. Then I met my wife and had my son. Now I follow the Giants obviously as I’m on here each day, but it’s not to the level I once did.

I was big on MLS in the 2000s when a bunch of my friends played, but as they all retired that has totally fallen off my radar.

Basketball was never a big sport to me other than when Jordan et al were in their prime. Once those guys careers ended I was out completely.

And as you mentioned, social media and 24 hour access is too overwhelming.
It was always  
Scott in Montreal : 8/8/2022 8:30 am : link
NFL
NCAAF
MLB
NHL
CFL

The last few years it has really changed.
Now it is
NCAAF
NHL
NFL

I stopped watching baseball all together and I have found that NCAAF is just more fun to watch than the NFL.

With the Carolina Hurricanes finally being fun to watch after sucking for so long. I just found myself enjoying watching them. Win or lose. I have rarely missed a game since Rod became the head coach..
Ive weeded out  
upnyg : 8/8/2022 8:36 am : link
most other sports. Always Giants #1 since the 70's. then Yankees, used to listen to their games at night on my radio.
During the 80/90's Knicks and Rangers fan.

Then in the 2000's watched the Yankess when they were in the Playoffs. Stopped all of base ball the last 10 years.

I still watch every Giants game, go online to read the news and fan pages. So that activity is up.

But I would say as I get older, I am more focussed on just the NFL, but overall not happy with the league on a lot of fronts. Wish it was just football and less everything else.

If I wasnt a Giants fan since the early 70's i'd watch no sports.

So lets hope for better times going forward.
Grew up a baseball fan  
Gmanfandan : 8/8/2022 8:55 am : link
But switched to the NFL after the first strike and dropped baseball altogether after they cancelled the World Series. Fantasy drafts, pouring over stats and reading everything I could on the NYG (they still have Giants Weekly? If they do I'm sure its a web page and not a newspaper I used to get mailed to me)

Too much NFL now. I think we always worried that the NFL would become diluted due to over exposure, and I think it has. So, I don't pay as much attention to the NFL as I used to... but I do pay a LOT of attention to baseball once again.

Age I am certain has quite a bit to do with it.
I used to devour the sports pages every day  
davew926 : 8/8/2022 9:03 am : link
I have always been a baseball first guy but followed everything closely. Now I have trimmed it to MLB, NFL, NCAAF, and NCAAB. I can't watch NHL and NBA playoffs until late June, it would take my attention from baseball. I dropped golf during covid and haven't picked it up again.
I follow the Giants and Formula 1 very closely  
AnnapolisMike : 8/8/2022 9:09 am : link
I will follow everything going on with the Giants, but ignore most of what happens outside of the division. The length of games has become absurd.

I have become a huge F1 fan over the years. I will watch qualifying on Saturday which lasts 75 minutes and the race which will last 2 hours max. F1 has a two hour time limit for races.

I am a Yankee fan, but at this point just a scoreboard watcher and the occasional game. Follow NHL, College football but rarely watch anymore.
For me, Alot has to do with age and getting older.  
redwhiteandbigblue : 8/8/2022 9:22 am : link
As a kid growing up in the 60's and 70's in the Hartford CT area, I was a diehard Giants fan, Sox fan and Uconn BB fan. Never missed games, Knew every player, etc.mostly because I played those sports all the way through High school. As I got older, I remained true to my teams but life was fuller and more complicated so dedication to my teams slipped. Life no longer revolved around them. Funny thing is, as I got older, I actually became a BIGER sports fan. I now follow Nascar, NBA and Hockey, Tennis, etc. sports I barely followed when I was younger. The difference has been sports don't rule my life like they did as a kid. I totally agree with BB56 regarding social media. I don't even have any accounts other than LinkedIn.
I agree Doc.  
River Mike : 8/8/2022 9:32 am : link
Except that I never followed any team in any sport other than the Giants. I also don't do twitter, tik tok etc. I actually tried but found their interest below zero. And like you, only do FB.
oh,  
River Mike : 8/8/2022 9:37 am : link
and I can't understand fans complaining the games are too long. I wait all week for those few hours of game time, an opportunity to spend time with my family of Giants fans, and the more,the better. Of course, I hate the thursday games when my sons can't come over because they have to work the next day
Nope  
UConn4523 : 8/8/2022 9:40 am : link
too much other stuff going on that’s as interesting or flat out better. Video games, tv shows, movies are all more interesting to me, generally. Sports burns you out, and I’m over wanting to know every little detail about the teams/players. I got into sports because they were fun to play and pros were doing something unfathomable - now a lot of the allure is gone so I watch the games of the teams I follow and then get on with the rest of my day.
RE: I agree Doc.  
upnyg : 8/8/2022 9:43 am : link
In comment 15774514 River Mike said:
Quote:
Except that I never followed any team in any sport other than the Giants. I also don't do twitter, tik tok etc. I actually tried but found their interest below zero. And like you, only do FB.

I agree with age. I odnt do Tik Tok (my kids do). I stopped twitter years ago. Just too much work amnd time, so Im focussed just on a few fan sites.

Times are different, like TV, its more scattered( diversified). So it will never be the same when all there was ...was just ESPN.

No, I don't follow the NFL as religiously as I once did  
Sneakers O'toole : 8/8/2022 10:08 am : link
And I may not at all if it wasn't for my attachment to the Giants. I feel like a great deal of damage has been done to the sport and the quality of the product on the field.

I still have an emotional investment in the Giants  
Sneakers O'toole : 8/8/2022 10:09 am : link
That keeps me engaged
Yes and no  
VTChuck : 8/8/2022 10:14 am : link
I still watch every Giants game including pre-season. I check BBI everyday. I rarely watch other NFL games until playoffs. I watch Syracuse football and now Dartmouth (as it is now televised).

My wife likes watching college basketball, so we watch almost every Syracuse and Vermont game....not other teams.

NBA is boring to me. I follow the Celtics, but try to tune into the last quarter, rarely a full game.

Baseball is RedSox only. I like daytime games and sometimes listen on the radio. Season is so long, but I'm more likely to watch when they are in contention.

I watch much more pro bicycle racing. So many races are available on streaming services year round. Cyclo-cross in the fall and early winter. Classics in the spring, followed by the Giro, Tour and Vuelta.

I follow the NFL overall more closely.  
Racer : 8/8/2022 10:51 am : link
The information we have available as fans, from the books that have been written about the game, to podcasts, to subject-matter-expert items like Sy's draft content, game reviews and now camp reports, really reward the time investment.

I follow the Yankees less day-to-day, maybe because I've grown tired of the hype train coupled with never leading a game vs. HOU until (rarely) the 9th inning and the 12+ strikeout performances every October.

Rangers I have ramped up because of this site and the two pods I follow...like the NFL, if you put in the work to try and understand what you're seeing, the game is far more interesting.

I'm also an F1 fan going back to the 70s. Things have come a long way since reading the results in the NY Times then reading the race reports in Road and Track 3 months later. Pretty immersed at this point, but I'm also heavily into the technical side of the sport and the content in that area is also quite rich.
No  
steve in ky : 8/8/2022 11:02 am : link
I used to watch every NFL game I could, now I only watch the Giants. I used to watch a lot of NBA, now only the Knicks. I used to watch every Ranger game now time restricts that and only catch a handful during the season and then watch the playoffs.

Lastly, and this is one I do miss, since the late 1960’s I used to watch all the Mets games but since the NL went to the DL I don’t enjoy baseball anymore and have given it up.

As s sports junky I used to even watch car racing and other lesser sports but not much other than Giants and Knicks these days.
No  
steve in ky : 8/8/2022 11:03 am : link
I used to watch every NFL game I could, now I only watch the Giants. I used to watch a lot of NBA, now only the Knicks. I used to watch every Ranger game now time restricts that and only catch a handful during the season and then watch the playoffs.

Lastly, and this is one I do miss, since the late 1960’s I used to watch all the Mets games but since the NL went to the DL I don’t enjoy baseball anymore and have given it up.

As s sports junky I used to even watch car racing and other lesser sports but not much other than Giants and Knicks these days.
I watch NFL now more than ever  
Debaser : 8/8/2022 12:08 pm : link
When I was a kid I just watched the Giants. Since the Knicks are just horrendous I do not watch NBA any more and since all good teams out west too late to stay up. I watch baseball a lot now. Although I cannot wait for them to move the mound back and use a clock so the games are shorter. I hardly ever watch hockey exception being the Rangers this year
I'm mostly just a Giants fan now  
Greg from LI : 8/8/2022 12:09 pm : link
I really don't pay too much attention to the rest of the league anymore, as I don't care for the direction the game has been going for at least a decade now.
RE: No  
Debaser : 8/8/2022 12:11 pm : link
In comment 15774608 steve in ky said:
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I used to watch every NFL game I could, now I only watch the Giants. I used to watch a lot of NBA, now only the Knicks. I used to watch every Ranger game now time restricts that and only catch a handful during the season and then watch the playoffs.

Lastly, and this is one I do miss, since the late 1960’s I used to watch all the Mets games but since the NL went to the DL I don’t enjoy baseball anymore and have given it up.

As s sports junky I used to even watch car racing and other lesser sports but not much other than Giants and Knicks these days.


You know with an average of about 4 pitchers pitching a game these days; and starters being removed in like the 5th to 6th inning --even when pitching well--deciding when to pinch hit for one isn't really this master plan thing you know.
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