NFL Week 5: McNabb's Queasy Stomach Thread

It isn't the fantasy football players the NFL caters with the injury report. It's the gamblers.

I play fantasy football, but I cannot stand watching football with other fantasy football owners.

Too many fantasy owners will flip channels or always ask, "Who got the TD in the Miami game?"

Seriously? Who cares?

Fantasy is for off time. When the games are being played, I only think about how every game will affect my favorite team. If it really does not affect them, then I want to see a good game. I would much rather see Reggie Bush make 12 great plays than my running back score on a one-yard dive in a long-decided game,.

 

Devil, the NFL is not "catering" to the gamblers because the injury report is a complete farce.

As for "who cares"? Well, millions of people care. The majority of people playing fantasy football are not dyed-in-the-wool fanbois like you who follow a team. I don't have a favorite team. I stopped having one when I, you know, became an adult. You take fantasy football out of the equation and the NFL ratings would take a tremendous hit. Take gambling out, too, and the only people giving a shit at all would be the ones in the stadiums on Sunday, sort of like hockey.

 

If Roger Goodell is serious about legislating head first hits out of the game, he needs to give the refs the power to throw players who lead with their heads out of games.

 

Hate to burn down this myth (OK, I'm not and y'all know it), but every NFL tackler in history has led with the helmet. It's a physical certainty.

Now, launching at someone, aiming with your helmet... that's a different deal. And I don't think that's what happened to Miller.

 

So you are saying that people should stop following their favorite team and play fantasy football when they "grow up?"

I guess I should stop rooting for my Alma Mater in the NCAA Tourney and just fill out a bracket?

 

No, other people can do what they want. But throwing on a jersey, going to a stadium and yelling and screaming in support of a bunch of morons is a bit on the childish side. The same could be said, of course, about fantasy sports, which are somehow not mocked to the degree of Dungeons and Dragons and the like.

And your alma mater is different. You have an actual association with that school/team. But how many who follow college teams don't? And I find it odd that grown men (and a few women) will throw in jerseys of 19-year-olds.

While we're at it, take away the brackets, and does anyone give a crap about college basketball?

 

Thank you for your first statement. As for your second, these guys are moving too fast, at moving targets, to know they're going to hit anyone head-first. Sometimes it happens. It's seldom, almost never even, intentional.

 

No where in the teachings of proper tackling forms do the phrases "leave your your feet" or "jump at your man" come about.

If you jump at a player, you might be looking to tackle, but you are also looking to hurt.

It's also a great way to miss a tackle. See: Arrington, LaVarr

 

There was a time when sports were very popular without brackets and one point for every ten yards. It was about 15 years ago.

 

How does "lead with your helmet" get translated to THAT by you?

 

If players never left their feet to make tackles, so many more offensive plays would end in touchdowns. It's not taught. Sports at the highest levels go far past basic fundamentals. Instinct and superior athletic ability take over.

Meanwhile, if you think fantasy sports have only been around 15 years, you're misguided. They were hitting their stride by 15 years ago. In 1994, I was in a fantasy baseball league that ended that year after its 11th season. My fantasy football league started in the late 1980s.

Fantasy sports and gambling, not fans of teams, are what drive ratings in both professional and college sports. Without those two things, sports as we know them would die.

 

Let me ask you this, Devil, why is the 1979 game still the highest-rated NCAA title game, if sports are so much more popular now? That was the so highly rated because people actually wanted to see the game. Since then, they have been more content to hear the final score to know where they finished in their pools. Far more people watch the first four days of the NCAA tournament than the last couple. And it's not because they love basketball.