2023-2024 NFL Discussion

[TwoTankAmin]

I have watched almost every super bowl game. I have never watched any of the half-time shows.

 

[jaylach]

I have watched almost every super bowl game. I have never watched any of the half-time shows.

Same here.

 

[gwand]

Same here.

Ditto

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Half-time is for an extended bathroom break or to make more things to eat. For poor planners it may be the chance to do a beer run. For some it is time to change the baby's diaper or to feed the dog. Some of these things can be done during timeouts if one is fast enough.

I think the NFL/Networks are afraid if viewers change the channel during half-time, they wont turn back to the game. Really

I have no clue who Usher is. I do know what an usher does, but I already know where to sit to watch the game in my house.

 

[Fishmanic]

Half-time is for an extended bathroom break or to make more things to eat. For poor planners it may be the chance to do a beer run. For some it is time to change the baby's diaper or to feed the dog. Some of these things can be done during timeouts if one is fast enough.

I think the NFL/Networks are afraid if viewers change the channel during half-time, they wont turn back to the game. Really

I have no clue who Usher is. I do know what an usher does, but I already know where to sit to watch the game in my house.

If you have a Roku TV, you can hit the pause button when it's time for a bathroom break or to get some grub. Then resume the game when you're comfortably back in your seat. And having paused the game, you can then fast forward when a commercial comes on.

 

[jaylach]

If you have a Roku TV, you can hit the pause button when it's time for a bathroom break or to get some grub. Then resume the game when you're comfortably back in your seat. And having paused the game, you can then fast forward when a commercial comes on.

I do that with my Browns games but just the radio broadcast. I used to have NFL+ but I could still only get the radio cast when the game was live. I could only watch after the game ended. Since I can stream the radio cast for free from a Cleveland station and the NFL Network is going to show the game during the following week it made no sense to keep NFL+.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have nothing special for viewing besides cable TV. It has a whole house DVR as part of it, but beyond that is nothing. Our TV is not smart.

We do have Amazon Prime for the house, but I will not watch any sports on Prime on principle. Pro sports locally were always shown on broadcast TV locally. By letting Amazon, Apple or any other pay service grab games is ethically wrong but financually profitable. It denies the poorest of us the ability to watch. So they will never get my eyes.

 

[jaylach]

I have nothing special for viewing besides cable TV. It has a whole house DVR as part of it, but beyond that is nothing. Our TV is not smart.

We do have Amazon Prime for the house, but I will not watch any sports on Prime on principle. Pro sports locally were always shown on broadcast TV locally. By letting Amazon, Apple or any other pay service grab games is ethically wrong but financually profitable. It denies the poorest of us the ability to watch. So they will never get my eyes.

Just curious as to what is the issue with watching games on Prime. I mean games are still shown on local channels in the team's market area as that is part of the NFL/TV contract. The exception is that the NFL has blackout rules to where local broadcasts may be blocked without enough stadium attendance. Still this is an NFL rule, not under the control of streams or local networks.

I just don't get this complaint. I currently hear SO many complaints about Prime and Peacock doing exclusive broadcasts but in either case the local market can still see the game on network broadcasts if there is not an attendance blackout.. People gang up on Prime especially for having Thursday Night Football but I didn't hear near the complaints when the NFL Network had rights to either Monday or Thursday Football... can't remember which.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

The games being streamed by the pay services are mostly the single night games. Thursday night for example. I live in New York. I am a Yankee fan. On some nights one can only watch the gane her on Amazon Prime. Fortunately, radio is not involved in this stuff. Many Yankee fans (including us) turn their TV sound down and listen to John Sterling and Susan Waldman on the radio. A lot of fans at the game will also be listening to their broadcast as well as watching.

Bear in mind that it is the poorest folks who may not have cable TV. They may not have unlimited data on their phone either.

There was actually a time when all the games were played on Sunday afternoon. But the money involved was nothing like it is today.

 

[jaylach]

The games being streamed by the pay services are mostly the single night games. Thursday night for example. I live in New York. I am a Yankee fan. On some nights one can only watch the gane her on Amazon Prime. Fortunately, radio is not involved in this stuff. Many Yankee fans (including us) turn their TV sound down and listen to John Sterling and Susan Waldman on the radio. A lot of fans at the game will also be listening to their broadcast as well as watching.

Bear in mind that it is the poorest folks who may not have cable TV. They may not have unlimited data on their phone either.

There was actually a time when all the games were played on Sunday afternoon. But the money involved was nothing like it is today.

I used to do NFL+ for my Browns games but you can only get the radio cast when the game is live. Can't get the video of the game until it is over. After finding a Cleveland station that carries the Browns and streams for free NFL+ went out the window. Why pay for NFL+ when I can listen for free and the NFL Network is going to show the game during the following week anyway. I DO still pay MLB to stream my Indians/Guardians games but I can watch live and, to me, it is worth the cost. I seldom miss a game.

I DO have an NFL gripe. I wish they would go back to how it used to be with the Pro Bowl being after the Super Bowl. I know it isn't a real game but I enjoy some of the show. I actually like the flag game. My gripe is that, with the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl, none of the Super Bowl teams' selections are going to play and risk an injury.

Another thing I'd like to see brought back with the Pro Bowl is something they did for a few years then dropped. They had a retired popular player as the coaches and it was a pickup game where the coaches picked players back and forth from both the AFC and NFC combined. It often ended up that you had offensive and defensive players from the same team playing against each other. It was fun and, I thought, a great idea.

 

[gwand]

If both teams play their best, it should be a great game tomorrow. I’m a Ravens fan but I also really like KC.

 

[jaylach]

Normally I wouldn't but I'm also pulling for the Ravens just due to being tired of KC. Also pulling for the Lions just because...

 

[jaylach]

Hey, I've wondered this for quite a while. Why do not extra point kicks affect the game clock? Aren't they part of the game?

 

[MuddyWaters]

I have watched almost every super bowl game. I have never watched any of the half-time shows.

There were a couple of Super Bowls where Beavis and Butthead had a "half time show." I watched that. Nowadays, though, if I have to watch real-time because if I even try to fast forward through commercials or the half-time show my wife reminds me about how she's from Colombia and she "knows people...."

 

[MuddyWaters]

Falcons signed Rahim Morris as coach. At first I thought it sounded like something the Smiths would have done when they owned the team- they hired Marion Campbell a couple of times (I think they just found coaches by flipping coins).

Morris has good experience on both sides of the ball, though. I had forgotten that. He was the coach in charge of our passing attack when the Falcons had one of the most prolific offenses in the league, has been our DC and was our interim coach for a brief period after they let Quinn go.

I'm relieved that we didn't get Belichick after all. I had convinced myself it would be good, but it started to scare me when the Falcons were the ONLY team interviewing him.

We have a lot of good pieces- we need a QB and someone to push them to the kind of performance they're capable of. I am optimistic. To be a Falcons fan, you must have perennial optimism.