Has the Karparknick protest made you stop watching NFL games?

[mj4cy]

Southpark absolutely NAILED it

 

[Mr Janny]

The real question is how many posts until someone spells his name correctly?

on it.

 

[Doc]

ISIS could have a team and I'd probably still watch football.

 

[CloneIce]

No, of course not. What kind of ******* weirdo would quit watching football because of that?

 

[3TrueFans]

I watch the Cyclones play, and the Broncos, and a little bit of Sunday to catch Carrie Underwood's intro, that's about all the football I watch anymore.

 

[Doc]

No, of course not. What kind of ******* weirdo would quit watching football because of that?

yeah, how do you let your priorities ever get that misplaced

 

[mdk2isu]

Who is this Karparknick fellow you speak of?

 

[SpokaneCY]

I feel like the people who say/said they will stop watching are the same people who say they'll leave the country if X wins the presidency.

I wish the NFL players would stick to doing what they do best. Fathering numerous children of different women, hitting said women, blazing through millions of dollars on cars and posse, etc... Leave politics to the professionals on the anonymous chat boards and the super rich Hollywood types.

 

[bosco]

I'll start watching if players start doing handstands during the anthem, now that would some entertainment.

 

[SpokaneCY]

I only started watching ISU football because of tailgating and it's importance to the overall athletic department. If ISU didn't have a football team, I wouldn't watch any football. Too slow, I like basketball, hockey, soccer.

Removing some TV timeouts from college basketball made what was already great action/time even better. 40 minutes of action in 2 hours or less is great, especially when you factor in free throw's as action while the time is stopped.

This fast sport of soccer you speak of... Is that the one where players have life-threatening injuries several times during the game only to be resurrected by the mysterious spray the trainers use?

 

[Clonefan32]

I only started watching ISU football because of tailgating and it's importance to the overall athletic department. If ISU didn't have a football team, I wouldn't watch any football. Too slow, I like basketball, hockey, soccer.

Removing some TV timeouts from college basketball made what was already great action/time even better. 40 minutes of action in 2 hours or less is great, especially when you factor in free throw's as action while the time is stopped.

I think this is my issue with football as well. The play ends. Guys usually mill around talking **** for a while or do a little first down dance or something. Then they shuffle guys in and out. Then they get to the line of scrimmage and the QB runs around yelling random ****. Then they look back over to the sideline for a while. Then the QB yells some more ****. Then they run the ball up the middle, making you wonder what all the yelling was about.

 

[19clone91]

If you would seriously stop watching an entire sport because one guy is kneeling during the anthem than you have some screwed up prerogatives. Im guessing you would also be the person who refuses to visit a city because they hosted the national convention 30 years ago for the political party you don't agree with.. He is the backup qb on a crappy team...

Commercial breaks are the real issue in my mind. Why cant each game, or week maybe, have one big sponsor who pays a lot and they have a few big commercial breaks instead of 100 small ones? Like they get 10 minutes of commercials between quarters and 20 minutes at halftime and then no other commercial breaks.

 

[NATEizKING]

This fast sport of soccer you speak of... Is that the one where players have life-threatening injuries several times during the game only to be resurrected by the mysterious spray the trainers use?

Yeah, the one with 90+ minutes of commercial free action in under 2 hours, compared to the 13 minutes in 3.5 hours of football.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I haven't, but I saw a poll out earlier this week that showed 32% of NFL fans have stopped watching. It was only 1000 people, but still interesting none the less.

My guess is that 75% of those who said they stopped watching haven't, or haven't for that reason, but want to make some sort of point.

 

[Stewo]

My guess is that 75% of those who said they stopped watching haven't, or haven't for that reason, but want to make some sort of point.

Good chance.

 

[19clone91]

Yeah, the one with 90+ minutes of commercial free action in under 2 hours, compared to the 13 minutes in 3.5 hours of football.

I agree. But there needs to be a middle ground. I dont want to get rid of commercials if it means the jerseys will be compromised. Id rather have commercial breaks than cover my favorite team's jersey with stupid ads, and then wear those jerseys myself and become free advertising for companies. The problem now is that the NBA has all the same commercial breaks and are now also putting ads on the jerseys. It needs to be one or the other.

 

[Tailg8er]

This fast sport of soccer you speak of... Is that the one where players have life-threatening injuries several times during the game only to be resurrected by the mysterious spray the trainers use?

Yep, the one that sometimes ends with a score of 0-0, exciting stuff!

 

[VeloClone]

If you would seriously stop watching an entire sport because one guy is kneeling during the anthem than you have some screwed up prerogatives. Im guessing you would also be the person who refuses to visit a city because they hosted the national convention 30 years ago for the political party you don't agree with.. He is the backup qb on a crappy team...

Commercial breaks are the real issue in my mind. Why cant each game, or week maybe, have one big sponsor who pays a lot and they have a few big commercial breaks instead of 100 small ones? Like they get 10 minutes of commercials between quarters and 20 minutes at halftime and then no other commercial breaks.

They could also put up L-bar ads between downs occasionally. You still see what is going on but the sponsor gets their name up there when people are actually watching the screen.

 

[VeloClone]

This fast sport of soccer you speak of... Is that the one where players have life-threatening injuries several times during the game only to be resurrected by the mysterious spray the trainers use?

 

[tim_redd]

The worst is:

Touchdown
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