Boutte

Cars are better, phones are better, TV is better, women stay hotter longer.

The NFL isn't as good as it used to be. (Ask Dick Butkus).

saintsfan1976

From your perspective, yes.

Boutte

Of course. And it's all just my personal opinion. I'm sure there are people out there who've watching football for just long as I have who like the game better today. I'm not going to tell them or anyone else they're wrong. It's a matter of taste.

skymike

Nope, you're wrong, because you are completely right. Its not just your personal opinion. The NFL is not what is used to be.
Its like the argument about music being a matter of perspective. Rap is actually garbage, not music, and I know this, because I've heard real music. I was around when they played it on the radio. Well I was around to see the NFL in its old incarnation too, so I have that to compare to today.

The NFL you're getting today is a watered down version. The games take now have more tv timeouts. This means you get less football and more commercials.

Replay. The whole point of replay was to stop glaringly huge mistakes. If its not obvious in about 30 seconds, then its not reversable. Replay should not microscopically analyze & legislate the game from a booth. Used to be when someone scored a TD, you could cheer. We now cheer rulings.

Again, the game is the same length, so youre getting more commercials and lenghty replays, and less football.

Head hits, horse-collars, touching the QB, they're not allowed to tackle anymore. The whole purpose of the Bountygate penalties was to avoid getting sued. Lawyers have again ruined Life.

Cost. Beer, parking, tickets, and the biggest scam in sports- the PSL.
This is all because they cant reign in player salaries. These salaries hurt every aspect, and dont even help the players, who still sometimes go broke.

Pimpage. Also traceable to ridiculous salaries. Its only a matter of time until team names have corporate sponsors. The Geico Insurance New England Patriots. The Depends Undergarments New Orleans Saints. Used to be, we didnt know or care who made the team uniforms, which were pure of corporate logii. Its all over the stadium. Its all over everything. You cant talk to the person next to you with the big screen commercials screaming louder than Led Zeppelin, in between every series of plays.

The speakers are too loud. Lets let the crowd make the noise.

Stupid stadiums. A bunch of short attention span bells and whistles. Reliant
Stadium. That stupid thing in Dallas. The other stupid thing in Phoenix. The Morgue in St. Louis. I hate amenities. I want football, grass, hell-raising, and beer. This is what makes football great. Not Disney stuff. Real Stadiums: Lambeau, Wrigley, old Cleveland Municipal, Candlestick, the Orange Bowl, Baltimore Memorial, Busch Stadium, The Astrodome, and you and I couldnt hack the heat, but old guys will tell you, there was NOTHING like a day in Tulane Stadium.

The broadcast is now Short Attention Span Theatre: Robots, exploding helmets, laser sound effects, or the stock market report on the bottom of the screen. I cant tell you how many times I've seen replays or even plays where you couldnt see the ball thru the FREAKIN GRAPHICS. For the love of God, can you get all the crap off the screen and just show me the game? In the 70s the only thing they put on the screen besides the grass, was clear white or yellow letters/numbers. And you could see thru them.

Dumb Uniforms now. The Broncos should be orange, Patriots should be red, and not every team needs to be black, blue, blackblue, blueblack, and blueblack and black. The Raiders are black. Are we scared of them? Statistics will back me up: The Chargers scored more points when they wore Yellow britches. This is a fact.

The Whole Pussified Tone of the broadcast. In the 70s, if you wanted social justice commentary, you went and talked to a bunch of hippies. Football broadcasts should have guts, mud, X's and O's. We need more Madden, and less Bob Costas.

The only thing that is better about football now is the tailgating.