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NFL Boycott
I have been a big NFL fans since the 1960s. Up through 2015, I would frequently watch two or more games a week. Since 2016, I have watched one game in total (a Super Bowl a couple of years ago while flying on Southwest). The combination of the Kaepernick controversy and increasing wokeness on the part of professional sports in general has turned me off watching them. How do other Ricochetti feel about this? Are you watching less football today?
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The last professional football game I watched was the Falcons losing the Super Bowl.
I never did watch it but I do hate what’s going on. China should never have been allowed into the WTO.
I watched one college football game this year, and only because I went in person with my son. I’d consider more college football if I didn’t have to pay for cable. (I will not uncut that cord.) Nor do I wish to pay to stream ESPN.
The NFL, on the other hand, is itself a problem. Haven’t been watching at all. Might watch the super bowl. Haven’t decided. Didn’t watch last year.
Yeah same
You mean choking in the Super Bowl.
Yep
I occasionally watch a highlight video, but I can’t remember how long it’s been since I watched a game. Even now when I watch a video I find myself remembering the character Ian Shoales who was a creation of a member of The Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater. He said, “Football players are like hookers in that they are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”
I haven’t watched a snap in two years.
But with Cincinnati in the SuperBowl that can change
No. In a world such as this, I don’t give up that which I enjoy. There are aspects to the NFL that are admittedly annoying, but then I would’ve missed the KC-Buffalo game.
Zero games watched last season. A couple of late regular season games this year and then paid passing attention to most of the playoff games. I no longer take time for any pre-game shows or highlight shows.
My menu of sports over the last twenty years had already narrowed to just football and nascar. Both went dark in my house in late May 2020. I admit to have softened a bit here lately on football and may watch Daytona and a few races this year…but my real give-a-$#!t about any of it really no longer exists.
Mr AZ was a huge football fan. We haven’t watched a game since the kneeling began. And I gave up baseball. Hurts.
I had stopped since the kneeling thing. Recently returned for the playoffs. The best playoffs I have ever seen.
Why have I returned. I now realize I live in Babylon. In Babylon, the good guys do not have any affect on society because the numbers are too small. In Babylon, everything is tainted by the Babylonians. There is becoming no alternative but to deal with them. If everything I buy is connected . What’s the use of boycotting something I like to turn around and have no choice but to do commerce with Nebuchadnezzar ?
Why in the world should it matter which city that pays people from other cities lots of money, “wins?”
Is the Super Bowl still a thing?
Same here. Mainly watching NHL and Canadian football. There’s some woke lip service at the start of games, but it really seems to be just lip service.
FWIW, the rules in Canadian football make it, at least for me, a more wide open sport. And some of them, particularly the 5-yard rule for punt receivers, could be beneficial to the NFL.
Going to a college football factory I was slow to get interested in the pros. Did like to watch 49er games until Eddie got sidelined and the sister and her clan took over running it. Those were some great playoff games in round 2. But also trying to figure out how to cut the cable and still see the college games. The free channels have most but not all of them.
I never cared much but watched a game here or there. The wife was a fan. Especially the Bengals. That all stopped a few years back with the woke stuff. No more NFL for us.
this year because of Bengals I have been instructed to steal a feed so they get no money from us. So a hacking I will go….
I watch a lot of football. This years Divisional round was the greatest weekend of games in NFL history. It was also the end of an era. Brady and his generation are done and Mahomes’ and Josh Allen’s generation has taken over.
I like the city. I’d be excited for them if their hometown team won.
Is anyone on the team actually FROM Cincinnati?
But even if they are, it’s not like that somehow proves the quality of the city, or anything. It’s ridiculous.
It wasn’t Kaepernick’s knee that drove me away, but rather the NFL ownership group’s “sensitivity” to his concerns that came in 2020. I watched a few downs of the AFC Championship game last week, and some Colts’ post game highlights near the end of the regular season, but that’s about it. I have even less enthusiasm for college sports since the cancellation of March Madness in 2020. The lockdown of 2020 ended my 19th season of umpiring high school baseball mere days after it had begun. A new hobby came out of this disruption, namely gardening, but I also started taking writing a lot more seriously. Now, if they ever take Covid out of sports … enthusiasm may follow.
Being the Bengal’s it is pretty certain the majority of the team has been arrested in cincinnati
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Throw in Burrow and will lots of exciting offenses to watch in the next few years.
I watch every Chiefs game, an occasional SNF game, and every Superbowl. The league is woke, many players are morons, but most of them are just great athletes playing a game.
To me it’s like Hollywood. It’s just a tv show and I usually like this shows content.
I don’t watch commercials, mute the talking heads, skip the pregame/halftime debauchery and just enjoy watching skilled humans playing a game I like.
It’s just another tv show.
The NFL is Bread and Circus. It’s the Coliseum.
I have pretty much given up on my power as a consumer to think my ignoring them will help anything. I pay attention to what’s happening and hopefully my interpretation of it might be helpful in navigating the future. If something is what other people are consuming, if I want to understand what’s going on, I should monitor it. In this digital world where things can be pre produced and released. Live is what people want and crave. Live music if not proliferating, has had ticket prices increase tenfold. You can’t record the game and watch it tomorrow. And people even want to “be there at the game” even though they would have a much better seat in their living rooms watching on their flat screen, tells us something. We also saw how pathetic football looked when the stands were empty last year.
I have a love/hate relationship with the NFL on several levels. We go back decades.
The slogans in the end-zones and on the back of helmets will someday look like absurd artifacts as they do to us now. Yet it’s still real. Very real. That’s what we want. We want now. Live. That’s why the NFL is getting such attention.
And these kids are real. They are someone’s son, brother, cousin or friend, who was always striving and excelling. So very often these players have a support system, as competitors they know you can either win or lose but you keep trying to win. It’s a reality reality show.
It’s how do you foster teamwork which is the thing I love most about sports. The team aspect.
Football is also the best ‘strategy sport’ by far.
Strategy, Drama, Combat… every Sunday to placate the male masses.
I gave my TV set to a grandson 2+ years ago, and have not missed any part of it. It’s a much more peaceful life without all the commercials and talking heads.
It’s much easier to have a 50″ or larger TV for movies etc, than to get a 50″ computer monitor or something. Just because you have a TV, that doesn’t mean you have to see commercials and talking heads.
I don’t want to interpret this comment too darkly, but isn’t it a little like giving up bourbon, and giving the jug to your toddler?
I cannot stand commercials or anything unwanted spewing into my consciousness which I have to ignore which is spent energy. It keeps me from thinking my own thoughts.
So, I do watch media but I avoid commercials using various strategies. I’m very proactive with the remote. MUTE is within centimeters of my thumb, usually.
I have been known to ask people in an Oil Change Franchise waiting room if they are watching the television. They usually seem even afraid to have public conversation and shake their heads. So I turn the volume to zero. One time, I think I got a smile from the receptionist after doing so.
We are entitled to our own thoughts.
I watch zero football now. The NFL killed my interest. The sad thing is that I’ve pretty much lost interest in all forms of entertainment: movies, opera, the symphony, sports. I’ve started to watch all the movies that I never saw from before 2000 or so just to have something new.
Why, I just know that they will be woke in some way-they can’t help themselves-and it will make me mad. I just can’t stand it.