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The NFL is in the “Entertainment” Bu$ine$$. It’s not entirely about Football anymore. It involves theatrics and complications and dramas that are strategically orchestrated at levels that the average football fan cannot possibly grasp. It involves a deep psychological operation designed to influence and merge diverse targeted market demographics. All we can do is sit back and try to enjoy whatever’s left of the game, and hope that our Saints might become relevant in it again, before sinking deeper into a swamp of obscurity.

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Preaching to the choir brother. The NFL like any other major corporation has its sights set on market share which (unknow by many) gave up its non-profit status in 2015.

For instance the "Competition Committee" is a logical fallacy, no one wants competition including the fans. What the league and the fans want are to be entertained while hoping for a Dynasty, which is why the rules have changed over the years to deliver this that. Trench warfare football will not get the NFL television market share.

The NFL wants people to tune in and they will do anything to get that... Competition and integrity of the sport be damned.:beer:

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And what is wrong with that? If people are tuning in in ever increasing numbers then so be it. You idealistic few can move on to something else. ;)

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Some of the “idealistic few” on here are fans of the GAME OF FOOTBALL.
It’s tough to make that point to an old man who wears a tutu with dollar signs on it.

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This

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As a fan of the NFL for all of my life I can not understand you. You're not even a millennial.:confused:

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I'm not sure what generational grouping has to do with anything.

The world evolves. I am a realist. I have been an NFL fan for longer than most of you have been alive. I have seen the game change constantly since I first started following in the early 1960's. When I was born there were only 12 regular season games. Shortly before I started following the game it increased to 14 games. As a six year old boy in South Dakota, Bart Starr and the Packers were everything when it came to football. My dad was transferred in the Spring of '67 to Barksdale AFB in Bossier City and I discovered my new state was getting a team. I hopped right onboard. Helmets were changing. Play calling was different. They didn't move to 16 games until I was in college and was able to follow much more closely through the news department of our campus newspaper. Teletype. There have been huge changes made even since then. Yet, the game has exploded now worldwide. I'm able to see and enjoy more games than ever before. Does the game resemble what it was when I started following? In the basics, yes. Exactly? No, not even close. That doesn't mean it's bad.

Major League Baseball could learn a few things from the NFL. They have progressed some over the past couple of decades, but are still eons behind their potential.

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See the thing is, this Forum is about the BLACK AND GOLD, which is the SAINTS, who are a PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM that we are FANS of. Our team, that we want to see WIN CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL. I’d venture to say that most of us are not sitting here wearing a tutu, mini mouse ears, and rose colored glasses, trying to convince other fans to be thankful that our team is almost mediocre.

You’re here to celebrate the increasing success of dinosaur multi-millionaires merging with a growing fan-girl base that are almost as hypnotized as you. You celebrate the movement of Fans’ hard earned money and precious attention being sucked into a business model that fails to deliver a quality product: CHAMPIONSHIP LEVEL FOOTBALL, BEING PLAYED BY THE SAINTS. You tell people who are not happy with being consistently disappointed to go elsewhere. YOU are the one who needs to find another forum. I’m sure Nickelodeon has their own NFL forum, now that they got their own booth at the S. B. - You can go there and post links about Mickey Mouse making more money this year than at any point in history, while our Saints continue to get mismanaged deeper into a swamp of irrelevance.

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I just heard today that Peacock paid the NFL $110 million for the streamed wildcard game this year. The 2025 playoff game will cost the streaming broadcaster, most likely Peacock again, $150 million in 2025. That is over a 36% increase in revenue. That is unless some other broadcaster offers more!

This is just another indicator of why the NFL revenues keep rising faster than even projected. Thus, the salary cap is mandated to increase by the same percentage according to the CBA.

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As an idea of the revenues that the individual teams are getting check this out. It matters not if the team goes 20-0 or 0-17 they all get equal shares of the revenues.