am i the only one who finds the nfl boring?

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I never would consider subscribing to Sunday Ticket or League Pass, but I subscribe to Extra Innings (or the online version thereof) and Center Ice every season. You get so many games for your money with both of those.

 

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True. I got a free weekend of Extra Innings this year and enjoyed it. Addictive to be able to flip through that many baseball games. The only one I buy is NFL Ticket. But that's for the Steeler games.

 

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A total bore most of the time.

 

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Maybe, but if you think about some of the attendences in Florida and Tampa Bay this season, the fact that more people have gone to see MLB games this season than ever before cannot solely be placed at the feet of home runs.

 

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From the Palm Beach Post...

"The Marlins announced the paid attendance as 12,345, but the actual crowd appeared to be closer to 1,234.5. Olsen said it's tough to be motivated in front of such a small crowd."

I think MLB attendance has gotten a little creative.

I know the house was not packed when Maris hit 61, but the amount the sport was followed nation wide was much greater in the 50s and 60s.

 

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Football's once a week, much less susceptible to no-shows. Does everyone who purchases a ticket to an NFL game show up at the stadium?

I've been to one game this year. I've watched parts of several on TV. The game I attended was declared boring, but I enjoyed it. The games on TV, not so much. I usually try to focus on the left tackle or a safety when I watch the game; that's hard to do on TV.

 

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Without the Los Angeles Rams, who gives a shit about the NFL? (though, I do bet on it.). But the passion for the NFL is zero since Devil Frontiere bolted to KC.

 

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Stop parroting mindless talk radio dipshits.

Home runs were at their lowest level in years in '07 and attendance was at a new high. A new high despite apathy in Miami.

As for the topic at hand, the NFL doesn't bore me personally, but I think the rise of the West Coast-ish offenses has made football more boring to watch. When offenses are predicated on three-yard dump offs and hitches, it isn't going to raise excitement.

Offenses are almost too efficient. When quarterbacks are going through whole halves with only a couple of incompletions, it's evidence as to how efficient offenses have become, but it also kind of devalues what they're doing.

When the mad bombers of the 60s, 70s and 80s completed over 55 percent, the degree of difficulty was much higher and it was, frankly, more exciting. The element of risk has been completely taken out of most passing games unless you have an inexperienced or fly-by-the-seat-of-pants QB.

I'm not saying offenses should turn the clock back, what coordinator in their right mind would? But efficiency does take the excitement level down.

And sometimes efficiency speaks loudly and says nothing. For example, Jeff Garcia was 18 of 23 with a 121.6 QB rating yesterday against the Colts, but what did it matter? He passed for 143 yards, averaging 7.9 yards per catch.

 

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Almost all of my football watching is on Saturdays.

I can't remember the last time I watched a live NFL game from start to finish, and that includes the Super Bowl. I'm with LJB -- if I want to get gung-ho about the NFL again, it will be via my old tapes.

I'm sure it's not the only reason, but my interest in today's NFL began waning as more and more TV personalities got under the impression that people are tuning in to see them.

 

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I don't know if this has already been mentioned but I would love to see a game played where the QB had to call his own plays. I know this would never happen but I miss the days when a QB had that kind of control. Maybe because "back in the day" I called my own plays in HS. I also walked up hill both ways to and from school but I digress.

 

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Who do the Colts play next week?

I have no problem with the sideline calling the play.

 

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For me the NFL is entertaining from a strategy standpoint but the on-field product has taken a few steps back.

Every team uses the same formations for the most part so it's all about a game of chess between calling the right play against the right scheme, etc. etc.

I miss the days of different offensive schemes whether it was Glanville doing the run & shoot or Buffalo's no-huddle K-Gun or the triple tight-end power game of the Giants. And watching Parcells go old-school Big 10 to beat the Bills in Super Bowl XXV was fascinating stuff.

That's why people are excited to watch Colts-Patriots, we know we might get something a little different from the normal NFL game template. It's also why people were so intrigued by Spurrier's entry into the league. He had a different mindset. Right now the NFL is too much of a copy cat league.