**General NFL Discussion Thread**

Originally posted by blizzuntz:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:
It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

Millenials viewership is down ( not in amount of people but how long they watch for )and how they watch it bring ratings down.

I couldn't get the niner game last night, but was able to watch via twitter with people posting all the key plays

Millenials are screwing over a lot of different industries and companies with their habits vs other generations.

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:

It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

I've started waiting an hour or two to start watching the game to avoid commercials. Those tv timeouts are brutal. They have to get rid of them. Use the quick commercials or split screen/PIP.

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:

It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

And all these exclusive deals the Monopoly..er NFL does. And stupid software limitations.

You mean I can't watch NFL games on my phone because I don't have Verizon?

You mean I can't stream NFL live (shows) stuff to my Chromecast because I'm using a phone? But if I had my tablet it's fine. But if I use my Tablet and connect through HDMI, it's blocked because of NFL rules? Unnecessary BS.

Oh Great NFL Rewind for $40 for the season? I'll sign up. Two years later... "yeeeeah we are going to change the name and change the price to $100." Fuuuuck You.

Edit- obviously some of those things have changed like the Verizon deal... but if you do that s**t for a long time.... you are going to lose people.

Originally posted by jcs:

Originally posted by blizzuntz:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:

It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

Millenials viewership is down ( not in amount of people but how long they watch for )and how they watch it bring ratings down.

I couldn't get the niner game last night, but was able to watch via twitter with people posting all the key plays

Millenials are screwing over a lot of different industries and companies with their habits vs other generations.

Their short attention span is a product of instant gratification

Whether the helmet is up, down, all around, nobody knows where it goes, so they'll flag it. The NFL better take all those highlight reels off the market then and stop using them to promote their game.

When it comes to new rules, if the fans hate it and the players hate it, get rid of it. Safety is irrelevant when nobody is watching. What about hockey, boxing, the MMA, and NASCAR? People have died, but they aren't changing the rules for those sports. This is all political lip service because of all the law suites, not because the NFL cares about their player's safety. And lets not forget, the NFL was sued because they held back information about head injuries not because the sport is violent. Every player knows the risk going in now.

So does this mean NFL films is doing their due diligence to delete all those highlights they keep pumping out to get people interested? Of course not! Maybe the league should be penalized every time they show a highlight that breaks their stupid new rule.

Mostert's tackle last night was as close to a rugby tackle as it gets in football—still got flag. He dropped to his knees, put his helmet to the side of the ball carrier, and wrap & tackle around the thighs.

It's happening too fast for the ref to distinguish so they throw the flag anyway. If they gonna keep the rule, they should help the ref by having video review. They can't just eyeballed it and assumed it's illegal.

This is getting worse than the replacement ref debacle

Originally posted by blizzuntz:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:
It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

Millenials viewership is down ( not in amount of people but how long they watch for )and how they watch it bring ratings down.

I couldn't get the niner game last night, but was able to watch via twitter with people posting all the key plays

The massive law suits against the NFL will only increase and the League will be unable to function as we know it. The game has gone away from the players and is now controlled by the refs and the NFL hierarchy. The rules instituted over the past few years are judgement calls not black or white. The helmet rule is a travesty and changes the game as we know it. Compound that with legalized gambling and getting a few refs in your organized crime pocket and scores are to made every weekend. The sport as we know it is in its' decline. This being said by a fan who would go into depression after the final game each season. All good things come to end, it must have been a blast watching the games in the Roman Coliseum.

I would love to know what the league's take of Fantasy Football is?

Originally posted by jcs:

Originally posted by blizzuntz:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:
It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

Millenials viewership is down ( not in amount of people but how long they watch for )and how they watch it bring ratings down.

I couldn't get the niner game last night, but was able to watch via twitter with people posting all the key plays

Millenials are screwing over a lot of different industries and companies with their habits vs other generations.

not really, every generation has done this since the industrial age began 150 years ago.

technology evolves, people evolve with it. people used to listen to the radio, then they watched tv , now they watch on their smart devices.

people used to eat at home, then they went out to eat, now they just get food delivered to them.

people used to make their own clothes, then they went out to stores to buy clothes, now they buy them online.

i'm sure the millennial's are going to complain about generation z (our newest generation) like baby boomers complained about generation x and now gen x complains about millennial's.

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by jcs:

Originally posted by blizzuntz:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:
It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

Millenials viewership is down ( not in amount of people but how long they watch for )and how they watch it bring ratings down.

I couldn't get the niner game last night, but was able to watch via twitter with people posting all the key plays

Millenials are screwing over a lot of different industries and companies with their habits vs other generations.

not really, every generation has done this since the industrial age began 150 years ago.

technology evolves, people evolve with it. people used to listen to the radio, then they watched tv , now they watch on their smart devices.

people used to eat at home, then they went out to eat, now they just get food delivered to them.

people used to make their own clothes, then they went out to stores to buy clothes, now they buy them online.

i'm sure the millennial's are going to complain about generation z (our newest generation) like baby boomers complained about generation x and now gen x complains about millennial's.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewjosuweit/2017/10/22/5-industries-millennials-are-killing-and-why/#2a4d6fd644e4
There are numerous articles out there regarding this topic. They are an unusual generation because they were raised in a technology centric/social media era.

Originally posted by blizzuntz:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by NinerGM:

It's not protesting it's not a lot of stuff that's killing viewership with the NFL, it's the RULES and REFS. Prepare for a lot of BS calls this year.

rules, non stop flags, commercials every 2 min...football is really becoming harder to watch year after year. those penalties last night, the roughing the passer on Lee and the hit from Morset, made me want to be done with football.

Millenials viewership is down ( not in amount of people but how long they watch for )and how they watch it bring ratings down.

I couldn't get the niner game last night, but was able to watch via twitter with people posting all the key plays

They should just superimpose company logos on the field and shorten commercials.

This new MNF crew sucks

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:

This new MNF crew sucks

Sounds like a HS game.

It's way better than the first broadcast. Witten was holding the mic way too high and he was stiff as f**k