Need a fucking 3:00 Raider game to be televised nationally.

Need a fucking 3:00 Raider game to be televised nationally.

I think the decline is because it looks like Arena Football. TD's are cheap.

Also,the decline can be correlated directly to the fading of the "super running back".
The RB seems to be an interchangeable part on most teams.

I miss the days of Payton,Earl Campbell,Tony Dorsett,etc.

fuck it, eliminate a team in each division!

The only NFL I watched was maybe 10 minutes of the Packers game yesterday when it was 10-6.

2 years ago I would never have imagined ignoring Sundays.

I'm not trying to protest CTE or anything. I just would rather do something else.

Low T beta males. I was only able to watch about 5.5 hours yesterday unfortunately.

If the team you rooted for was as horrible as the Bears, you'd probably lose interest. I don't think that's the only reason for me, though.

I was at a local bar watching the 'Skins game. There were around 25 people there. The majority weren't even Bears fans. I actually spotted a Jags fan in the wild. Five Patriots fans, too.

A Bears/Skins NFC Championship game would get ratings that Packers/Panthers just can't.

The Web-motivated trend toward short, punchy online videos, analysts said, may have also motivated some viewers to skip the four-hour football broadcasts until they’ve been distilled down the next day.

And haven't the NY teams also been mediocre?

New York has been mediocre x2, Los Angeles has been mediocre, Chicago and San Francisco have been the worst in the NFC. That's a lot of cornerstone markets to concede. But of course, Dallas is having their best start in a long time, aren't they?

I don't know why people don't ignore the Thursday games. I like them when nothing else is on.

The pace of play in the NFL really does seem to be the issue. It's far better to watch on dvr so you can fast forward through the replays and penalties.

They need to look at getting in some of the things college football does. The games may be just as long but the flow is much better.

Every college game on TV is like 4 hours long.

Every college game on TV is like 4 hours long.

They don't seem to be a chore though. The Tennessee/A&M was ridiculously long but I was entertained.

It's 4 hours of fun rather than annoyance.

The product is just complete shit all around. I feel like all of the things that were nuisances but still tolerable over the last few years have just hit the point where they're no longer outweighed by what's actually transpiring on the field. Bad commentary, worse "analysis." awful storylines (ESPN is seriously running commercials for Monday's Broncos-Texans game featuring slow-mo shots of Osweiler in a Broncos uniform while Third Eye Blind's "How's It Going to Be" plays), incompetent officials enforcing increasingly asinine rules, seemingly even more commercial breaks than ever before, seemingly even more awful Peyton commercials than ever before, etc. In terms of on-field product, it doesn't help that only a handful of teams appear capable of playing decent football for more than one quarter at a time. For all the crap the MLB and NBA get for tanking teams, some of these NFL teams look just as bad in their respective sport despite having a far shorter season, a far more arbitrary playoff, and appearing to actually try to win games.