Listen, I was a huge sports normie until a few years ago. Sports viewership is built on addictive behavior. Sports is like crack, giving it up cold turkey is relatively hard.
There are other sports leagues out there that don't hate their audience as much as the NFL. A parallel move is fine. It's the deliberate fostering of tribal belonging that's the real problem. The people who feel an allegiance to "their team," as if they actually had a relationship to them.
Pro sports fans are essentially the parasocial streamer relationship thing at scale.
Edit: Also the marketing op around the Superbowl as a social event/tradition to make sure people still put eyeballs on their product out of peer pressure. Another +1 for your drug analogy.
I can't get past the 3 downs. Having only two plays to get 10 yards just seems unfair to me. I don't think I could articulate properly why, it just seems incorrect.
There's lots of exciting things the offence can do though. Like 1 yard between lines (not the width of the ball) so QB sneaks are more successful. Full motion for everyone in the backfield (a running start for receivers!) & a wider field.
It keeps the game rolling, with more punts in a game (11 vs 7.5) and no "fair catch" at all! But a 5 yard buffer to catch it in.
BUT major rule changes next season to make it "more appealing to Americans" 😣
Listen, I was a huge sports normie until a few years ago. Sports viewership is built on addictive behavior. Sports is like crack, giving it up cold turkey is relatively hard.
There are other sports leagues out there that don't hate their audience as much as the NFL. A parallel move is fine. It's the deliberate fostering of tribal belonging that's the real problem. The people who feel an allegiance to "their team," as if they actually had a relationship to them.
Pro sports fans are essentially the parasocial streamer relationship thing at scale.
Edit: Also the marketing op around the Superbowl as a social event/tradition to make sure people still put eyeballs on their product out of peer pressure. Another +1 for your drug analogy.
CFL Football is better anyhow 😸 We Canadians invented it after all... y'all perfected it though.
However? They decided to change some CORE elements of why CFL was good! It's likely to be a disaster next season, oh well!
I can't get past the 3 downs. Having only two plays to get 10 yards just seems unfair to me. I don't think I could articulate properly why, it just seems incorrect.
There's lots of exciting things the offence can do though. Like 1 yard between lines (not the width of the ball) so QB sneaks are more successful. Full motion for everyone in the backfield (a running start for receivers!) & a wider field.
It keeps the game rolling, with more punts in a game (11 vs 7.5) and no "fair catch" at all! But a 5 yard buffer to catch it in.
BUT major rule changes next season to make it "more appealing to Americans" 😣