| An idea, LA Saints, why I hate football. Fans, uniforms, the players, "so popular" Let's make football better. 1. Do-overs. Suppose your team got a punt blocked and it got ran back for a TD. No problem! Just throw out the white flag with the red pokadots onto the field and viola! Play never happened! Your stupid QB got flagged for intentional grounding? Fucking do it over! Your stupid QB threw an interception or your high halfback fumbled the ball? Fucking bring it back! Teams get up to 5 of these a game. Rule: only the offensive team can use the flag. 2. Play-clock is now 15 seconds long 3. Football is now filled up with helium. 4. Clipping is now legal. It really makes your head itch. I don�t like what the NFL has become. The league was faced with a low revenue generating situation in New Orleans, with its crappy team and out-dated stadium. There's been talk of moving the team for years. Then suddenly, a hurricane hits it, and it�s the best thing that could have happened to the NFL. The team owner wants to move the Saints to San Antonio, which has no sky box revenue generators (most important to the NFL), but of course the league wants a team in Los Angeles. A few reasons; 2nd largest market / no team; apparently the NFL has to give some money back to their networks because of no L.A. team. Does L.A. really want a team? Apparently not. They were given preferential treatment in the last round of expansion, and nobody really took it seriously (thanks to college football) and is why we have the Houston Texans (terrible name). It just makes me sick to think a league would use a natural disaster to their advantage. Another thing that bothers me, is that "image" is now used solely to make money. I'm talking about all these uniform changes. Most are pretty damn ugly, catered to stupid young people with too much money on their hands & are too god damn obsessed with "image", and this alternate-jersey shit needs to stop. I mean, come on, the Bears are wearing orange jerseys this Sunday! You play only 16 games a season, 8 home / 8 road, and you need a 3rd jersey??? Some teams are doing throwbacks (Chargers, Bills, Giants) which actually look great, *because* they're so clean looking and tasteful. Of course, the whole purpose behind is to make more money. If teams are lacking in sales, the NFL says, "Hey shitheads, think of a gimmick to pick it up!" Back in the day, uniforms & logos weren't dictated by marketing research and retail sales. It's only happened in the past 15 years or so, and once something gets so big and popular like the NFL, that's when it turns to shit to appease the masses. In College Football, this would be the Miami Hurricanes and Notre Dame, seemingly two very popular teams. Another issue, the players. The whole Terrell Owens was pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. I was aware of him doing shit like running from the endzone in Dallas to spike the ball / celebrate his TD on the 50-yard line Star logo, or the shit of pulling out a pen and signing shit in SF after a TD. I think there was a cell phone involved in another incident. Which I guess is amusing in a sense, but when you're trashing your teammates / coaches for no good reason, you're just a piece of shit, then. Then there's the fans. It is not easy to interact with hard-core NFL fans. They dress up like drag queens and costumes, and stupid shit like Santa Claus on a Monday Night game at Dallas in September, and they eat way too much sausage. Plus there's this horrible impulse to make every single game a fucking party-concert. Plus a lot of players are way too fat, many are stupid, constantly haggling with the Law, fans ogle & praise cheerleaders like they're goddesses ("Lezbo cheerleaders? It's only the hottest thing ever!") Those people make me sick. You can all go to hell. Yeah, I've said all the other shit I need to before (annoying tv graphics / idiots talking about football) and it's to the point that I can't even watch it anymore. Fox seriously needs to get rid of football. |