It was also a possible suspect in the whodunit that has consumed professional football this year. Namely, what has happened to the NFL's TV ratings? To say that the NFL is the top-drawing sport on the small screen is an understatement. Last season, NFL games, starting with the Super Bowl (114 million viewers), accounted for 14 of the 15 most-viewed sporting events. (The college football championship game sneaked in at No. 7.) Indeed, the NFL accounted for 34 of the top 40 televised games. The remainder were college football bowls, the women's World Cup soccer finals, at No. 26, and Game 6 of the NBA basketball finals—aka the LeBron James-Stephen Curry show—at No. 40.And another great article from The Federalist. The author cites five reasons why the NFL stinks: flags, commercials, inconsistent catch rules, the NFL's weird social media rules, and negative news about the NFL.
Look folks, I love football. I hearken back to the glorious 2000 season. Man, I was on that couch from one till midnight watching the game. Its what I did. I live in a house with three little girls. I can name 14 Disney princesses. We watch what they want. Not on Sundays though. I should note that Mrs. Stroock is a bigger sports fan than I am. Hockey, that's the one with the puck, right?
But I tell you this, as I write this, the Monday Night game is an hour away, and I don't think I can handle Jon Gruden. A decade ago ESPN had a Sunday Night crew, Maguire, Patrick and Theisman, that made bad games fun to watch. Gruden makes good games hard to watch.
The Federalist is right about the flags. The game is over regulated and over managed. I don't even know where to start with the commercials. I'm sick of Peyton Manning and Viagra ads.
The game has been taken over by the black-ghetto under-culture, strutting, boasting, etc, which we see in the form of excessive celebrations for a touchdown, a catch, a tackle...It's hard to watch and the players are hard to like.
And so's the game.
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