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"Boring" is definitely a function of age. I don't get into NFL seasons anywhere near like I did when I was younger.

74_75_78_79_ wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 10:27 am

JeffreyMiller wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 1:36 pm 1970 ... a season which only stands out as the first post-merger, and the worst Super Bowl of them all ..

1970 may not be the best NFL season ever, but IMO its far from being the worst. The same exact thing, IMO, about Super Bowl V. A game I would still like to see in its entirety - pre-game and commercials included and the halftime show which already is all accessible; just no 4th Q with commercials along with no post-game show (Virginia giving the Colts the Trophy) which, of course, I want to see all that as well!

Football can be ugly sometimes. Hard-hitting game causing all those turnovers. Big D was real close to making it 20-6 at one point, but it turned out a competitive game scoreboard-wise all the way to that last, successful, game-winning/final play FG-attempt. And, aesthetically albeit superficially, Dallas wearing blue contrasting the Colts' white under the Miami sun does it for me (it wouldn't look/'feel' the same the other way around).

Yes, an apparently un-pretty game, which didn't make the Colts players feel any better even in victory - the dark cloud of SBIII along with '64 & '67 forever hanging over their heads, not to mention any of them being named the game's MVP. I guess their take on winning that SBV Ring is the equivalent of Peyton's take if he only ever won a Super Bowl in that final year of his, 2015.

SB V wasn't even the worst Super Bowl played in Miami! That honor goes to XXIX or II

ShinobiMusashi wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 6:59 pm For me I lost interest in the NFL through the 1997 season. No Houston Oilers, the Tennessee Oilers just felt... off. The Browns changing to the Ravens also killed something. Like something just wasn't right. And I got bored with Aikman vs Young vs Favre, I got bored with Favre especially he was everywhere in 1997 I mean EVERYWHERE. I lost interest but still watched in 1997 and remember watching Barry get 2,000, remember the resurrection of the Bucs with their new unis early in the season. Somehow missed Warren Moon's comeback season(Seahawks games didn't come on here much back then, if ever). But as 1997 played out I started to miss the glory days(for me) of 91-93 from when I was a little kid, I missed those old uniforms from that period and the players and look/feel of the game. But 1998 I lost interest and stopped watching, I missed all of those playoffs and only watched bits and pieces of Super Bowl XXXIII, was just not interested. I'm looking back now and starting to realize I missed a pretty good season in the NFL that year(98), damn you 97.

I can identify with this, but for different reasons.

I agree completely that 1997 was a Rubicon in terms of major transition all at once. Losing the Browns was a major blow, especially given that I had spent breaks from college in NE Ohio at the time.

It was also just weird having the Ravens, Tennessee Oilers and the still new Jaguars, Panthers and St. Louis Rams all in a very short period of time. To me, it didn’t seem very “big league” to essentially trade L.A. (twice), Houston and Cleveland for Memphis/Nashville, Jacksonville, Charlotte and St. Louis, which never struck me as a great football city. Baltimore and Oakland being back seemed right, but so much of it didn’t.

Being a Packer fan, my interest in them and their Super Bowl contention of the time made up for the whiplash change in ‘97, but the ‘99 season was when I felt it. The whole league seemed upside down with new contenders. Nothing seemed very “normal”.

And let’s face it, life situations dictate interest too.

If I boiled adulting situations down to NFL seasons, I got my first full-time job in ‘97, got married in ‘99, had my first kid in ‘02, and got my career-long job that had me working on a lot of Sundays in ‘04. Now some of those Sundays were being at NFL games for work, so my interest was relatively high from ‘02-‘14-ish, but that part of the job ended at that point, and my non-Packer interest has only been passing since.