Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

It's sad to see. And of course we all know why this is happening so the NFL can continue to flood social media with "OH MY" tweets and instagram postings of wide receivers reaching out nonchalantly with one hand and the ball sticking to it like Velcro. All trying to come up with another viral Beckham moment to exploit. Unfortunately they have overdone it to such an extent that there are almost no catches anymore that get me to rise out of my chair and not believe my eyes. They've taken the magic out of such a special moment. I expect 1 handed catches.

Another thing I've noticed is that the NFL in all of its social media postings does not even attempt to showcase and promote hard, clean hits. There may be a legal slant to this as they want to protect themselves in future court cases from seeming like they support and reward the kind of hitting that leads to CTE

Instead we get clip after clip of teams dance routines after td's and turnovers. It's absolutely eye rolling cringeworthy. I am not against things like the Ickey Shuffle or Deion styling from time to time but again they've gone overboard and made it boring. Ok we get it, team picture in the endzone. Ok, now they're playing leapfrog. Who the heck wants to see this? I want a good hard hitting balanced game, not the same silly dances over and over and over....and also a game where grazing a QB's helmet with your fingernail isn't 15 yards. So many instances where I just want to throw the remote down and youtube 1980's games.

Very sad to say this but the NFL is pushing me away as a fan. I wonder how many of you feel the same. It's truly becoming a boring no contact track meet. You have the toxic combination of lawyers and trying to appeal to millennials with short attention spans, and the result is usually something nauseating. A decaying product

I'm curious when things get back to normal and the virus is a distant memory(hopefully in 2021) will the ratings and attendance continue to tank? More as a response to on field play rather than due to the NFL's political posturing. I sincerely hope it does and a message is delivered to the league that this contrived abomination is not football. And that we need a more entertaining, balanced, and hard hitting product rather than the same predictable flag filled cheap TD scorefests.

Ehh, if the Jets get Trevor Lawrence and a competent head coach, you'll be on board.

JWL wrote:Ehh, if the Jets get Trevor Lawrence and a competent head coach, you'll be on board.

I'm still on board now. I watch every game and will throughout this 0-16 disaster. But I'm disillusioned with the league as a whole and want the NFL to do better, and wish I could enjoy the league like I did when they put forth a quality product

Sheajets,
I don't know how old you are but Ken Dryden, the very literate former goaltender for the hated Montreal Canadiens of the 70s, once said something to the effect of, "The best era in sports is when you are 12 years old". I agree wholeheartedly. We watched whatever was presented to us without questioning it. The games were what they were and that's the way they were supposed to be.

The older we get, the more our games change and the further away those gloriously "innocent" days of our youth get, but we still feel that all was right in the sports world that we loved and followed so very passionately as young fans.

For the record, I turned 12 in December of 1970 and the years 1970-72 truly were the greatest years in sports.

I'm a Packers fan, and I was born in 1965. So my Year 12 season was 1977, a year the Packers score 134 points and featured 0 great catches for the entire season. Plus this is the Packers, so there were only about a million reminders a year that the teams from 10 years earlier were better.

Then the next year, the Packers drafted James Lofton. Lofton was the best Packers receiver in my lifetime. Suddenly there were some great catches.

You see a lot more great catches on all levels. If you watch high school ball, with a good team you'll see some decent passing. Much rarer in 1970s high school ball. Watch those games if you want to see 1970s NFL style football.