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I actually hung out with the geeks, or nerds, in high school. A preacher's son, the four of us who knew how to use the teletype to program Basic back in 1974-75 and the #1 and #2 ranked students in the entire school (who married upon graduation). I went "hippy" in college around the same time I got into photojournalism.

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So, photojournalism is a gateway drug? Hmmmm…….:beatnik:

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I suppose so. It sidelined my first attempt at college, that's for sure. It's hard to make it to classes when you are shooting ACC football, basketball, baseball, swimming, volleyball, soccer, wrestling, and, not to mention, concerts seven days a week.

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Cancel him!!

I didn't call Tracy Chapman Buckwheat but I did have discussions with my friends about whether the singer was male or female.

I assumed a person's gender in the 80's.

Cancel me!!

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I never had a fast car.

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I had a 1987 SS Monte Carlo. That was a fast car. Problem was, I vacillated and ended up livin' and dyin' this way rather than leaving that night.

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Nevermind. I'm working on a covid 19 mask with an imprint of Rock's chin from the movie Mask on it. It's taking two mask to get it all on there.

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Not that enthused with watching any sport at the moment. The NFL has been creating these story lines that create controversy and a soap opera environment for awhile. Bad referee calls, politics, ridiculous amount of commercial breaks have been injected into the game for the last few years. I'd have to watch the game missing the Anthem and with the sound turned off to not get spun into any controversy or topic of the day. The NFL has become less sport and more "entertainment". So I can't say I will watch any game with certainty this year. I might peak my head in every once in a while out of morbid curiosity but all i'll have to do is probably look at one of the news channels to see that somewhere between a controversy and a political statement, a game was played.

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This perfectly sums up how I feel about it.

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Ok I’m done. Black national anthem was the final straw. Too much pandering and politics. It’s not sports anymore but Entertainment. I’ll watch college.

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I won't be watching the NFL. Of course, I really didn't watch last season much and my family gave up our 6 season tickets we had for over twenty years after the Great Robbery.

AsylumGuido is absolutely correct, it is entertainment.

The problem is that it is now entertainment aimed at stupid people with a powerful sense of entitlement, complete ignorance of history, and an overwhelming desire to be offended constantly.

It may be that the NFL are marketing geniuses and are reading the tea leaves correctly.

We may now be a country of Idiots. We shall find out shortly.

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Will you watch the Saints and the NFL this year?
Yes. I need an escape in entertainment from everything.

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Where's the darned LOVE button? It is and can be that simple.

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Just below my belly button....:doh:

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So lets see your results, Guido.

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Just about the right height for.........:rofl: :rofl:

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I think there were five absolutely not watching the NFL. Maybe six. Probably around one in ten respondents. I doubt it would be a higher percentage nationally given other areas are far more liberal in nature to begin with. Any loss of boycotting viewers should easily be offset by the added influx of people unable to attend games in person and also based upon the fact that it will be the main live sporting events weekly in the world. I would be shacked if we didn't see record numbers week in and week out this season in broadcast viewership.

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I’ll watch the Saints but not much after that, I just don’t have the want or desire to spend all day Sundays watching football

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I'm sad to say that I will not be watching this year. This has been building for years. Roger Goodell is a cancer for the NFL and he can't be gone soon enough. This is the last straw for me. I had a whole bunch of stuff typed up on this subject, but I deleted it. It's probably best left unsaid.

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Too bad, Srgt. Personally, I can't wait for the season to start. For me it's all about the games and nothing else matters. It's just like announcers. Supposedly some people can't stand certain announcers. I'm so engrossed by every game I watch that I don't notice the announcers one way or the other. I'll be tuned in every Thursday and Monday and all day Sunday with the Sunday Ticket game mix up watching eight games at once.

The small percentage not watching are not going to cause Goodell's demise especially since TV ratings should be the highest ever. You'll make either #6 or #7 here on B&G claiming to not watch any NFL this season. Although, I have a feeling if the Saints start off 8-0 that a few of y'all will find their way to a TV set before the season is over.

;):D

Edit: Oh, and if college football doesn't play (far, far more likely than the NFL not playing) I'll get at least a couple of Saturday games, too!! I can't wait!

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Goodell is going down!

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I wish. But as long as the owners love him he's going nowhere. The league continues to set earnings marks every year. With COVID coming into play this year in game revenues will be down, but what should be record broadcast numbers he'll likely cement his job for as long as he wants it. I'll never forgive him for the witch hunt of 2012, but he has been driving the Brinks truck loaded with dollars for years now.

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Well said. I'm not watching because it just isn't enjoyable to watch anymore.

The misguided racial politics added in is simply the final straw.

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So, you suddenly do not enjoy the game of football any longer? That's sad. I still get tons of enjoyment out of the game. You see, I approach it as simple entertainment. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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I’ll probably watch, but I have to say that with the treasure trove of full games on YouTube... I’ve been getting my fix and losing a lot of interest in current NFL.

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I just cannot enjoy those "youtube" games, Chris. There's no suspense. On the other hand, I can watch the two worst teams in the league play live on TV and be totally entertained. I am starved for real live NFL right now and, as usual, I probably won't be able to get enough. When you get my age the seasons fly past so fast.

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Its practically unwatchable now... Guido keeps asking "you mean you really dont like to watch football anymore?" No, I dont like watching MODERN football. The game's pace is horrible. The rules are stupid. You cant even kick a normal extra point anymore. Endless change, and weird stuff. Every play is an interpretation. ENDLESS CRAP AND GRAPHICS to block your view of the actual game.... I'm dying of GRAPHICS. Do you know what the lettering was like in the 70s? CLEAR! You could see the game through the score.

You spend most of the day waiting for replay refs to make a decision. The uniforms are stupid. They keep moving to different cities. PSL's, endless talk about "safety," and endless commercials, and now "social justice" b*llsh*t. Its not Football anymore.
Watch those old games from the 70s and you'll realize this isnt even the same game anymore.
Every player is a character. The announcers are more interesting, the fans have SIGNS everywhere. They probably got in for $15.
The uniforms are 100 times cooler. The cheerleaders are nearly naked, the commercials are golden. The Rules are Normal. THERE IS 80% LESS CRAP ON THE SCREEN--- you can actually see grass and helmets and the game. I cant come back to this decade, after watching what we once had. You've furthered my point. no, no, no, b*llsh*t ! you started this thing, and when it looked like I was a lone wolf, you posted two poster's names and had a running total of 2, to emphasize your counter point...

Cmon, Guido, finish what you started, if nothing else, to show your honesty to your detractors...

You can even list the people who say they ARE watching football, if it makes
your argument look better, but...

Give us the roll call vote and results. I want to see.

Put me down for No.

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You're down for no. If y'all believe y'all will bring down the NFL with your abstaining then fine. If it makes y'all feel better for not watching then that's really for the best. I'm going to keep rocking my black and gold Saints gear daily and I'll be the watching every snap of our second championship run.

You take care and be safe, Mike.

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It's not an escape anymore. I get my fill of politics when I drive-by CNN. We all know what's going to happen.

When cancel culture enters the NFL, it's just too sad of a spectacle to watch.

I'm out.

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I've said before, I dont care if it "takes down" the NFL, and I"m not sure whether it will or not.

I just personally dont feel the Love I once had for it anymore. I am no longer able to care, and I've lost interest.

Try to get along with people here, ok? lol. I'll always have a place in my heart for Ark-La-Tex Saints fans. I remember that sh**ty picture, and turning my antenna, with vise grips, from my house on Toledo Bend, just happy, if I could actually see the ball. Only to find out the CBS affiliate was showing the Cowboys. I wont forget.

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I'll be watching reruns of Sanford and son to gain the real black experience .

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Yup. KSLA channel 12. That's exactly why we got Sunday Ticket when it very first came out. Now I'm addicted to it and can't make it without it. I watch every NFL game I can ... live.

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I miss game days at Big Woodrows and for the 4 years before the Great Robbery, traveling to NOLA for every home game.

Years before my football watching had dwindled down to Saints only. Football has been garbage for quite awhile but you pull for the home team no matter the contest, tiddlywinks or nuclear war.

Last year, I found free internet streams and put the game in a small window while I did work or played games on the computer. I watched just enough to be able to discuss the game with my elderly Mom.
She really doesn't want to lose the Saints.

She doesn't have whole lot left of friends and family from the "old days" and the Saints are a link back to decades of good times and my Dad.
I haven't spoken to my Mom about football in months. She doesn't seem to be too interested after Drew Brees' fumbled his integrity.

If she still has the desire to hang on I may, again, find an internet stream.

If all the stupidity has finally killed off her fandom, I, personally, will be glad.

Politics has engulfed everything in this country and I will be happy to rid myself of the NFL's part in it.

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Wow! You were one of the Big Woodrows gang. I'm getting a faint memory of you. We had that upstairs rocking. When Pope Ed XLIV first proposed on Site X on a thread titled "Houston Saints Fans, Let's Get Together" in '06, 4 of us showed up to watch an Astros game. We actually visited several places, but chose Woodrows. Talk about "Where everybody knows your name." I dont remember if we started out upstairs, but I could probably name all of us. I think they gave us the upstairs, when we started getting big.
I remember now, why I dont remember the first game there. Because it was the Atlanta Game, the Gleason Block, and I was at the Dome. Nobody, us included, expected the Saints to do anything, but, of course, the season was magic, and by the NFCCG with the Bears, we were breaking fire code upstairs, and there was nowhere to park. Hell of a thing we had. I didnt know you were driving to NOLA for home games, also. I thought I was the only crazy one doing the I-10 streak every other week.
Good times.

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I was flying. Southwest out of Hobby. 6:00 AM departure for Sunday games. In the Quarter by 7:30 AM. Usually Deja Vu for breakfast and the first 3 or 4 drinks. Fly home the next morning. I was solo. My GF is not from around here and thinks NFL football is stupid and incomprehensible. Turns out she is right.

I saw you a few years ago at The Boot in the Heights for a game. You know me by sight but not by username.

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We were part of the Woodrows gang until things started getting dicey with the management. Not sure how much longer it was but when they took an OT game away for the Cowboys it was like to hell with this place now. We gather for games at my moms house now for most games. Now we make a guys trip to the Falcons home games but that’s the only game I make in the dome now a days.

Gone are the days when I would live for the home games so we could make the trip to New Orleans. We would get there around 10am since we had broken up our trip to Lafayette on Saturdays. Damn I miss those days

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One of the things that really bothers me about the NFL nowadays is “Next Gen Stats” like PFF. A CB presses with one arm instead of two and OMG he gets a bad grade from PFF and the NFL fan hive mind decides he sucks. It’s just exhausting.

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You’re right about there not being any suspense to watching old games. I was born in 1985 and due to my dad being in the Navy I moved around every two or three years and didn’t settle down in the Gulf Coast until 1997. I really became a Saints around 2002 or 03 and the Kyle Turley helmet tossing incident so there’s so many classic Saints teams that I need to catch up on. I’m a defensive minded guy and I’m simply salivating over the late 80’s/early 90’s games.

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Just avoid 1980-81. LOL! My dad was stationed in NC and then Arkansas during the late 70's and early 80's. Fortunately that when I was working for the newspaper and ACC Magazine so I had some access to "the wire service" so I could keep up with the Saints even though I couldn't see or hear many games.

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I won't be watching due to the NFL and players going all in on the Left side of politics with the kneeling.

I will check this board to see what people are saying about the games.