Not going to watch a single NFL game this year.

[PredFan]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

 

[Roadrunner]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I am only going to watch when that great American Cam Newton is playing.

 

[TheOldSchool]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I think that number 5 is actually the only reason you won't watch this year!

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I won't watch because of all the damned commercials and unnecessary officiating.

 

[Roadrunner]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I won't watch because of all the damned commercials and unnecessary officiating.

I think it is almost as phony as wrestling.

 

[HenryBHough]

Football hasn't been outlawed for violence?

Where IS liberaldom when Amerika needs it most?

 

[MisterBeale]

Very wise. For those who don't know, the NFL is one big money making cartel in which all the owners get a piece of the pie. The entire system is rigged, and the competition is no more legitimate than that phoney wrestling.

The Unmentioned Consequences of the NFL's Recent Legal Battles
The NFL s Legal Fixes - The Fix Is In

He then concluded, "We do not condone the conduct on the part of the Patriots and the team’s head coach, and we likewise refrain from assessing whether the NFL’s sanctions (and its alleged destruction of the videotapes themselves) were otherwise appropriate. We further recognize that professional football, like other professional sports, is a multi-billion dollar business. In turn, ticket-holders and other fans may have legitimate issues with the manner in which they are treated….Significantly, our ruling also does not leave Mayer and other ticket-holders without any recourse. Instead, fans could speak out against the Patriots, their coach, and the NFL itself. In fact, they could even go so far as to refuse to purchase tickets or NFL-related merchandise….However, the one thing they cannot do is bring a legal action in a court of law. [emphasis in original].”

Mayer’s lawyer, Bruce Afran, disagreed. He believed consumer fraud had occurred. He said, “(The opinion) seems to suggest that no matter how much ticket holders pay, they can be defrauded by NFL teams. And it puts the NFL on the same level as professional wrestling.”

Because there is no law outside of the loose interpretation of fraud from preventing a league from fixing its own games, Afran’s conclusion is correct. One cannot fix a sporting event for gambling purposes; that is illegal. And one cannot fix an intellectual contest for entertainment purposes; that was made illegal after the quiz show scandal of the 1950s.

But fix a sporting event for entertainment purposes? Completely legal.

What’s worse, the lawyer representing the NFL, Shepard Goldfein, actually argued in court that “fans likely would buy tickets even if they knew the Patriots were stealing signals.” In other words, the NFL realizes that much like pro wrestling, even if fans knew the football was rigged, they still pay their money to see it.
In March 2011, the Supreme Court refused to hear Mayer's appeal thereby affirming the lower court's findings.

As these two court cases prove, it is time to see the NFL in a completely different light. It is not a loosely organized group of teams fighting tooth-and-nail to beat their rivals. No, the NFL is a well-organized machine out to maximize its profits by doing everything within their power to make people consume their product: the games.

 

[MisterBeale]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I won't watch because of all the damned commercials and unnecessary officiating.

I think it is almost as phony as wrestling.

Wise deduction friend.

 

[KissMy]

I've not watched much since the Patriots cheated the St. Louis Rams out of Super Bowl XXXVI victory. They should have been stripped of that Super Bowl title.

 

[Iceweasel]

I pulled the plug and only have streaming video now so I likely won't watch a game. I sure won't pay to. I have to watch football time shifted so I can zip through the massive amount of time outs, somebody smells a fart ...TIME OUT. And the commercial breaks are ridiculous. Plus, the Seahawks were fun to watch but no way will they do it again, they got so close to two in a row.

 

[Desperado]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I won't watch because of all the damned commercials and unnecessary officiating.

If you were to watch only the time the ball is in play, snap to whistle there is just over 10 minuted of actual playing time.

The most surprising finding of The Journal's study—that the average game has just 10 minutes and 43 seconds of actual playing time—has been corroborated by other researchers.
Football Games Have 11 Minutes of Action - WSJ

 

[Roadrunner]

Football hasn't been outlawed for violence?

Where IS liberaldom when Amerika needs it most?

Oh, they are working on it, rest assured.

 

[mdk]

I plan on watching b/c I've been assured this is the year that the Rams will be back in L.A. lol

 

[Rocko]

I'll definitely watch this year. Buffalo has a good team on paper, their only question mark is QB.

 

[FA_Q2]

Very wise. For those who don't know, the NFL is one big money making cartel in which all the owners get a piece of the pie. The entire system is rigged, and the competition is no more legitimate than that phoney wrestling.

The Unmentioned Consequences of the NFL's Recent Legal Battles
The NFL s Legal Fixes - The Fix Is In

He then concluded, "We do not condone the conduct on the part of the Patriots and the team’s head coach, and we likewise refrain from assessing whether the NFL’s sanctions (and its alleged destruction of the videotapes themselves) were otherwise appropriate. We further recognize that professional football, like other professional sports, is a multi-billion dollar business. In turn, ticket-holders and other fans may have legitimate issues with the manner in which they are treated….Significantly, our ruling also does not leave Mayer and other ticket-holders without any recourse. Instead, fans could speak out against the Patriots, their coach, and the NFL itself. In fact, they could even go so far as to refuse to purchase tickets or NFL-related merchandise….However, the one thing they cannot do is bring a legal action in a court of law. [emphasis in original].”

Mayer’s lawyer, Bruce Afran, disagreed. He believed consumer fraud had occurred. He said, “(The opinion) seems to suggest that no matter how much ticket holders pay, they can be defrauded by NFL teams. And it puts the NFL on the same level as professional wrestling.”

Because there is no law outside of the loose interpretation of fraud from preventing a league from fixing its own games, Afran’s conclusion is correct. One cannot fix a sporting event for gambling purposes; that is illegal. And one cannot fix an intellectual contest for entertainment purposes; that was made illegal after the quiz show scandal of the 1950s.

But fix a sporting event for entertainment purposes? Completely legal.

What’s worse, the lawyer representing the NFL, Shepard Goldfein, actually argued in court that “fans likely would buy tickets even if they knew the Patriots were stealing signals.” In other words, the NFL realizes that much like pro wrestling, even if fans knew the football was rigged, they still pay their money to see it.
In March 2011, the Supreme Court refused to hear Mayer's appeal thereby affirming the lower court's findings.

As these two court cases prove, it is time to see the NFL in a completely different light. It is not a loosely organized group of teams fighting tooth-and-nail to beat their rivals. No, the NFL is a well-organized machine out to maximize its profits by doing everything within their power to make people consume their product: the games.

Should have always seen it this way. Multi billion dollar industries built on entertainment do not leave many things up to chance...

 

[Wyatt earp]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I agree with #5 my Bears will probably go 3 n 13 this year, I hate the 3 and 4 defense with a passion

 

[HUGGY]

That includes the playoffs in early next year.

Why because:
1. The New England Patriots have been cheating regularly since they came into the league and the league never does anything important to stop them. As long as they are playing football, I won't watch it.
2. Moronic thugs. Too many of them. I won't give them any more time or money.
3. Criminals allowed to get rich playing football.
4. Players who can't spell their own fucking names. Cough....Jameis...cough cough...
5. The teams I like suck.

I am only going to watch when that great American Cam Newton is playing.

I enjoy watching Cam Newton play the Seahawks.

 

[HUGGY]

I pulled the plug and only have streaming video now so I likely won't watch a game. I sure won't pay to. I have to watch football time shifted so I can zip through the massive amount of time outs, somebody smells a fart ...TIME OUT. And the commercial breaks are ridiculous. Plus, the Seahawks were fun to watch but no way will they do it again, they got so close to two in a row.

I use the over the air channels. It's free. It's HD. Seahawk games are broadcast. What's not to like?

 

[HUGGY]

I plan on watching b/c I've been assured this is the year that the Rams will be back in L.A. lol

 

[Anathema]

The NFL is not a competitive sports league, nor is it an entertainment venue similar to the WWE.

The NFL is the first step in conditioning the American public to openly accept outright SOCIALISM. It has been since 1994 when the CBA with the NFLPA stole the power from individual franchises and gave it all to the Commissioner and the League.

Assuming we're all familiar with the work "Animal Farm"..... the NFL owners are the pigs and the NFL Commissioner is Napoleon. If/when owners step out of line he declares them to no longer be pigs as a firm of punishment.