You have a good product.  The true football fan is getting turned off by all the party bs and music acts.  If you guys continue to fail to focus on football you are going to lose your core audience.  Once college football gets the heads out of the a$$es and gets a real postseason tournament the NFL might be as popular as the NBA.

I'm more turned off by flagging every big hit.

thugger wrote:
You have a good product.  The true football fan is getting turned off by all the party bs and music acts.  If you guys continue to fail to focus on football you are going to lose your core audience.  Once college football gets the heads out of the a$$es and gets a real postseason tournament the NFL might be as popular as the NBA.

Nope, NFL will for the way foreseeable future (i.e. at least the next 25-30 years, I don't want to say beyond that because you never know what could happen) be way more popular than college and the most popular sport in America.

no way. the NFL knows they can sh*t on us all day all year long and we will watch. Its become trendy to like football in our country and the NFL markets themselves to the casuals to catch the biggest slice of America.

My guess is your memo is going to be covered up by the stacks and stacks of cash the nfl is making right now.

But I'm sure they'll read it someday

i think they need to realize they need to stop shoving a disgusting person like ray lewis down everyones throat. they keep glorifying someone who was involved in a double murder.

You're an absolute moron if you think the NFL is even remotely close to losing it's true fans to 15 minutes of Beyonce shaking her glorious thighs. The NFL has never been more popular and just delivered an outstanding game. And I love college football more than any other sport by a wide mile but college football will NEVER catch the NFL in any way... ever.

They're too busy patting themselves over the fact that NBC's 'Football Night In America' was the #1 show on TV last year ending the eight-year reign of 'American Idol', and might do so again this year.

I haven't bothered watching a SB halftime show in ages; the Orange Bowl halftime shows from the mid-70s and 80s were really obnoxious, but the NFL's are much worse IMHO.

coopercougar wrote:

The NFL has never been more popular and just delivered an outstanding game.

 
I do wonder how many TV sets across America turned off when Baltimore was up by 22 and there was a 30+ min delay because they couldn't keep the lights on during the freakin' Super Bowl.

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You have a good product.  The true football fan is getting turned off by all the party bs and music acts.  If you guys continue to fail to focus on football you are going to lose your core audience.  Once college football gets the heads out of the a$$es and gets a real postseason tournament the NFL might be as popular as the NBA.

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Agree, Superbowl halftime sucks.

I thought the same thing. Judging by my twitter feed probably not many although my twitter is a solid 75% sports related to begin with so not the best sample of a super bowl audience. Ill be interested to see some info on this if anyone cares to dig it up

va1bucksfan1 wrote:

coopercougar wrote:

The NFL has never been more popular and just delivered an outstanding game.

 
I do wonder how many TV sets across America turned off when Baltimore was up by 22 and there was a 30+ min delay because they couldn't keep the lights on during the freakin' Super Bowl.

Next halftime show should be Taylor Swift.

You my friend are 110% spot on. Like I said on another board...Ray Ray will be voted into the hall of fame and his statue will have a knife in his hand and surrounded by 6 kids and their 6 moms.  It seems these are the only kinds of garbage that the media can find to make heroes of.
As for the NFL the are heading (already started) pay per view and when this is 100% complete pro football will be as popular as snow on a hot July day.

BuckeyeFan19 wrote:

thugger wrote:
You have a good product.  The true football fan is getting turned off by all the party bs and music acts.  If you guys continue to fail to focus on football you are going to lose your core audience.  Once college football gets the heads out of the a$$es and gets a real postseason tournament the NFL might be as popular as the NBA.

Nope, NFL will for the way foreseeable future (i.e. at least the next 25-30 years, I don't want to say beyond that because you never know what could happen) be way more popular than college and the most popular sport in America.

Yes, America is becoming an idiocracy, so yes I believe in what you say.

what about that anthem?  Must have set a record for length and was plain awful.  Beyonce was not family entertainment.  The zebras should have been in the commercials they were so poor.  Where did they get that crew?  Do they live with the Ravens?  Raven's 3rd and 4th td were because of blatantly blown calls and the last 49ers play, you tell me that was a legal hold?  I don't think I have ever seen such a terrible no call on the play before the ravens 3rd td, smith had both hands on for 15 yeards and was pulling down the dback and eventually tackled him to the ground to keep an intercception from occurring - No Call?  How about those two guys holding on the KO return right in middle of the play?  That was a big joke and the rules of the game were optional.

I turned it off when the Ravens went up 21-3 and turned it back with 3 mins to see the 49s were only down by 2.

realairbuckeye wrote: I turned it off when the Ravens went up 21-3 and turned it back with 3 mins to see the 49s were only down by 2.

I was going to, but i kept thinking how the 49's came back against Atlanta and figured they just migh do it again.

But in all reality once New England or Green Bay was not ivolved in the game, I really didn't care much anyway.

awesomebucks wrote: what about that anthem?  Must have set a record for length and was plain awful. 

 
I have to agree.  I really can't stand self-indulgent versions of the national athem.  Just sing it correctly and sing it well instead of trying to show off your own "artisitc interpretation" of it.

they've been doing this for 30 years so where's the decline in audience?

thugger wrote:
You have a good product.  The true football fan is getting turned off by all the party bs and music acts.  If you guys continue to fail to focus on football you are going to lose your core audience.  Once college football gets the heads out of the a$$es and gets a real postseason tournament the NFL might be as popular as the NBA.

I'm more turned off by the constant changes in the rules and flagging hits just for being hard. The super bowl always has a mainstream halftime show. I hope the NFL declines, but not because of the super bowl.