I believe we had our turn? At this point ‘everyone has had their turn on our turn’ might be more fitting.

Do you recall Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian after the Super Bowl? That’s my personal litmus test when being called racist or a hater. I feel the same exact way about seeing Kim K in 2009, as I did Kaepernick in 2017, as I did Swift in 2024.. I want the NFL to stop inserting non football related distractions into my very small weekly window to enjoy football.

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.

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.

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.

......... Glad it's in NOLA because that means major money for the region and the franchise. ......

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.

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

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.