What Wrong With Football, My Sports blog for November 2016

What Wrong With Football

Football 2016

What wrong with football

What’s going on with the game of football?  Is it just me or has the game become a bit boring this year?     Don’t get me wrong, I love ‘football’, but something is missing this season.  Could it be that the TV football fans are missing!

Sagging NFL TV ratings leave owners scrambling for answers

www.usatoday.com

It is the change in some of the rules?  This year there was a bunch of changes made.  It seems that the refs have been throwing the yellow flag on just about every play.   I know that the changes were made to protect the players.  But the changes are open to the interpretation of the rules by the refs and it seems that the refs have been a bit over the top.

It’s been so bad that not even the sports announcers know why the ‘yellow’ flag are tossed onto the field of play.  You have to wonder that if the announcers are struggling with the call along with the players and their coaches; how the fans are suppose to know what’s going on.

ESPN’s Sean McDonough Is The Bravest Man In Broadcasting For Ripping NFL Ratings And Officiating:

www.forbes.com

The one new rule that is really bugging me is the ‘taunting rule’.   Come on, taunting is what football is all about.  Catching the uncatchable pass, stacking the quarter back, making the touchdown and doing you thing in the end zone is the stuff the fans eat up.  We love it!  And instead on teaching the other guy, the one being taunted not to over react, they punish the winner.   It does seem to take all of the fun out watching football.

Baseball still allows taunting and so does basketball, again makes you wonder why football players aren’t being allowed to enjoy their ‘special’ moment in the sun.

Perhaps the problem in the amount of days that football is now being played.  You have college football on Friday and Saturday for the most part, then the NFL on Sunday, Monday and now on Thursday, that’s a lot of football.

NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ has lowest ratings since 2011

www.thetrucker.com

Perhaps it just comes down to the quality of the games.  When you are getting blowout games in the NFL, you have to ask why.  Why are so many teams not playing up to the expectation of the team’s owners and their fans?

Are the teams being hampered by the excessive amount of injuries that have racked the NFL this year and if so, why are there so many injuries?  I don’t remember a time before this year that so many players were injured before the season even started.

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There is one additional reason, at least one that the NFL is blaming for the low TV ratings.   They are claiming that Fans are watching fewer NFL games due to protests by several players during the National Anthem which was started by Colin Kaepernick as the primary reason.

sports.yahoo.com

The fact is that TV ratings are down for football this year no matter what the reasons are. However, the number of people playing Fantasy Football has only slightly fattened.  That should make the NFL wonder why!

Also more women are watching football and the sales of women’s NFL sport attire is on the rise, which does seem support that, but fewer fans are actually watching football on their TV’s.

What should be a main concern to the NFL is that there is a whole lot less young adults watching football.  There are a few out there, but with social media, they are not confined to just their TV sets to watch football, they can peak at the games on their cell phones or Ipads while still enjoying a day out with friends and family.

Young adults are not totally abandoning the NFL; they are the reason for Fantasy Football.  But even Fantasy Football has seen a flattening out of participants this year,

Study: Growth Of Fantasy Sports Participation Flattens Out, Little Growth For DFS

www.legalsportsreport.com

With TV ratings down, advertisers will definitely want to roll back the hefty prices being paid to the NFL and the team’s owners.   The NFL and the team’s owners will probably have to play along with the TV sponsors and then find other means to make up the potential loss in income.   Raising ticket prices is one way, but ticket prices are at an all time record high in some areas already.

NFL ratings plunge could spell doom for traditional TV.

www.washingtonpost.com

It will be interested to see how the NFL will adjust to this.  What changes will they come up with for the NFL season for next year?  There has even been talk about re-aligning the divisions that the teams are in.  They hope that this would help stimulate better competition between teams and thus gain new fans to the game of football.  There is also small talk about less games and a shorter season, then again there is also talk about adding more teams, which could mean more games and a longer season. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

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Dear Dodger Fans

I received this blog from another Dodger Fan and I passing it on!

This ‘Open Letter to Vin Scully’ by Jeff Polman is important and needs
to passed on from one fan to another, to another until something is done!

www.LADodgers.com

An Open, True Blue Letter to Vin Scully
Posted: 02/18/2015

Dear Vin,
I’m originally from New England, but have been following the Dodgers and attending their games since I moved out here in 1982.

I have always had the utmost respect and appreciation for what you do, and it will be a sad day in this land when you finally hang up your golden microphone.

It will be a sadder day, however, if the current, seemingly unending squabble between the Dodgers, Time Warner Cable and DIRECTV over the rights to the Dodger network TV broadcasts is allowed to continue much longer.

As you know, two thirds of the Los Angeles market was shut out of watching the games virtually all of 2014, which included masterful no-hitters by Josh Beckett and Clayton Kershaw, a triumphant Western Division pennant race with the Giants, and another season listening to your classy, informative tones for entire games.

It was unbelievably aggravating. For Dodgers fans truer and bluer than I, it must have been a nightmare. The entities with the power to end this stalemate have now had an entire offseason to take care of business and ensure this never happens again.

So far, they have accomplished nothing. The issue has been written about in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, discussed (though likely not enough) on local sports radio, yet no solution even seems to be in sight.
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In my mind, it is only a matter of time before angry Dodgers fans stop attending the games altogether. I certainly intend to be one of them. The Dodgers are more than just a team and a corporation; they are a public trust.

Older fans who first attended Dodgers games at the Memorial Coliseum, then moved on to Chavez Ravine and supported them for decades, merely want to relax at home now and watch them on TV with your wonderful announcing. Depriving them, even more than the rest of us, is a selfish, unacceptable crime.

Therefore, I am asking if you would do the one sensible thing that may finally put an end to this quagmire. Just pick up the phone, call the Dodgers, and say “Either fix this thing now, or I walk.” Sure, there’s likely no legal or contractual way this could even happen, but boy, would you ever be more of a hero to Dodger Nation than you already are.

There would be a Vin Scully statue in every Southern California town.

You may say I’m a dreamer, Vin, but I can assure you: I’m not the only one.

Best, Jeff

Jeff Polman writes about baseball for various Internet publications and writes “fictionalized” historical replay novels. Mystery Ball ’58, his latest one, will be available on Amazon in a few weeks.

There are probably a whole lot of us Dodger Fans that due to our advanced age, or little ones at home at old enough to sit still at a 3+ hour game, cannot simple drive out to the stadium to watch our Dodgers play as much as we really want to.

Therefore, we watch every game we can on TV, enjoying every moment, that is until last year when many of the Dodger fans were ‘shut out’.

And it wasn’t due to technical difficulties, but to the greed of a certain cable company. Not Good!

Hopefully if enough pressure is applied this situation with sort itself out and once again fans can enjoy a dodger game on TV.

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I feel the same way, Baseball and sports should be open to everyone and not control by those who has the most money, But that is the way everything seems to be going. So share this article with your sports friends and family.

April 2014 – Sports Blog

It’s spring time again and many of us it’s also means

Baseball

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As spoken often by our favorite sports announcer, Vin Scully ‘It’s time for Dodger Baseball ‘ and if you are a Dodger fan it hasn’t come soon enough.

www.Dodgers.com

This year, however, it was a bit confusing, at least for me it was. It seems that the Season opener was played down under in Australia on March 22. But it was only the season opener for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamond-Backs. The rest of the MLB was still in their spring training mode.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodgers-prove-it-s-just-a-game–even-in-australia-135056854.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7AFkZTMn8AextNbK5_

It was fun to see the Dodgers play in Australia at Sydney Cricket Grounds, to see the all the Dodgers and D-Backs fans in attendance.

Dodgers returning home from Australia with two wins, villain role still intact

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodgers-returning-home-from-australia-with-two-wins–villain-role-still-intact-072221837.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7AFkZTMn8AeBtNbK5_

In fact, it seems that after a few days of rest, the Dodgers were also back in spring training with the very popular ‘freeway series’ being played against their cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. One game being played in at the Dodger Stadium and the second game played at the Angel Stadium.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/angels-beat-dodgers-7-5-052656674–mlb.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7AFkZTMn8AehtNbK5_

The second opening of the Dodger season came with them playing the San Diego Padres in San Diego on March 30. Which they won two and loss one

March 30, was also the official start of the 2014 baseball season for The North American part of the season with the season officially coming to an end on September 28 with the playoffs stating right after that.

The Dodger’s Home Opening game was on April 4, against our arched rivals, the San Francisco Giants and it was a total sell out with over 53,000 fans in attendance. Unfortunately, the Dodgers lost. They looked tired and played sloppy. You have to wonder if ‘jet lag’ had anything to do with it. It didn’t help either that Kershaw was unable to pitch for the opener due to injuring his back from either his pitching in Australia or somehow injured the back during the long flight home.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/trip-down-under-not-necessarily-to-blame-for-kershaw-injury-040414

However how his back got hurt, he was unable to pitch at the Home Opener, which had become a Dodger tradition at the Stadium. Hyun-Jin Ryu made his third start in five games due to him replacing the scheduled starter Clayton Kershaw, and it
did not bode well for the Dodgers, they lost that game 4 to 8.

My questions to the MLB, is why not play the games in Australia or where-ever the MLB chooses, done at the beginning of or during Spring Training? This way the players would have a chance to totally recover from the time-change, jet lag and/or the lack of sleep. It would also fix the problem of having 2 ‘opening days’ for the teams and their fans that do the traveling.

www.mlb.

It has been a rocky start for the Dodgers, but it is only the beginning of the season, there is still plenty of games left for the Dodgers to show off their strengths and I, as well as many other Dodgers fans will be there with them to the end of the season and hopefully the playoffs and the World Series.

Leave a comment and let us know what you think

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Sports blog – February 2014

Both men and women gossip about sports

One of the biggest myths around is that women love to gossip and not men. Yet gossip seems to take center court over and over again in the world of sports.

Why? Simple it sells! And not just to the women fans but all fans across all ages!

Why does the stories surrounding A-Rod capture the front page of the news over and over again, does anyone really care who he suing today or will be suing tomorrow or that the MLB players Union wants him gone or that the Yankees, themselves want him gone as well? Apparently yes!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb-players-association-would-expel-a-rod-if-it-could-171857810.html

Let’s not forget there is also the fact that ‘bad news’ sells. If you watch or listen to Sports Central, or ESPN the headlines are usually reserved for the ‘bad guys first. Who trashed talk who takes up more TV time than who actually won the game. First comes the ‘trash talk’ and the comments from every sports commentator that can be found, then of course the time allotted to the ‘I’m Sorry’ campaign by the trash talker himself.

Carroll says Sherman sorry rant overshadowed win
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/carroll-says-sherman-sorry-rant-004022049–nfl.html

Now you add the time for the rebuttal by the fans of the team that the trash talker plays on that were interview and you have an awful large amount of time spend on ‘bad news’

Seattle soft? 12th Man shows it has Richard Sherman’s back amid criticism of Seahawk’s postgame behavior.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/seattle-soft–12th-man-shows-it-has-richard-sherman-s-back-amid-criticism-of-seahawk-s-postgame-behavior-012206913-nfl.html

Even more time than was spend showing the highlights of the game. I personally get a little frustrated with this. I would love the ‘sports world’ to spend more time with showing the positive aspects of sports, but then again, apparently that isn’t what gains views/fans.

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Another example of this phenomena shows up again when a book is written by someone in the sports world and although the book has probably many sport stories in it, the one that gets noticed by ‘Sports TV’ is the negative ones.

Example of this is when Former prominent NFL agent Leigh Steinberg wrote in a book released Tuesday that he advised quarterback Ryan Leaf not to attend a meeting with the Indianapolis Colts, who would then select Peyton Manning instead with the top overall pick in the 1998.

Steinberg: Leaf duped Colts out of drafting him in ’98
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/steinberg-leaf-duped-colts-drafting-183729125–nfl.html
Like I said, only the fact that someone might have done something ‘bad’ to some else, did the fact the Mr. Steinberg even got his book mentioned on TV.

And even then the world of sports didn’t stop with just mentioning the book; they have actually taking time to track down the persons involved for their side of the story to air on TV.

All this makes for good drama TV and slowly and completely taking over our sports world. We care more about what players do off the field of battle. What drugs they might have taken, who they are dating, or who’s getting a divorce. The average sports fan is still obsessed with any and all news that hits the airwaves concerning Aaron Hernandez, it doesn’t even matter that he is in jail and no longer playing football for the New England Patriots.

Police: Hernandez eyed as gunman in 2012 slayings
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/warrant-hernandez-eyed-gunman-2012-160757215–spt.html;_ylt=AwrSyCMg0N5SAjQAt0BNbK5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBmMnFmanUyBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQ–

It’s tough to explain to a small child who is just starting to show an interest in sports, that there is more to sports than the above, that there are still players out there that play for the sheer joy of being able to play. There are still players out there that are good but never make the headlines, they play by all the rules, even the ‘golden’ rules.

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This is the time of year that all sports fan wait all year for!

Both September and October are great months for sports and sports enthusiasts. I mean just about any sport can be found on the TV.

You still have baseball, as it is winding down and the playoffs are just around the corner in the month of October, Who will represent the National league and who will represent the American league? Some familiar teams and a couple of new ones look like they are fighting all the way to the end for a chance to make the ‘Playoffs’ and move on to a chance to play in the World Series. The first wild card playoff game is already schedule to be held October 1st with The World Series scheduled to start October 23rd. There is also the game of the moving and trading around of players and managers, which will start as soon as very next day after the end of the regular season.

The NFL has also just started and this season the NFL can be seen on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. That is if you have access to the ’NFL’ station for the Thursday night games. www.nfl.com.

Of course if that isn’t enough football for you, you can always pick up a game of college football almost every night of the week, especially Saturdays. College football started a couple of weeks ago and already they have been several upsets and lots of gossip about who’s to blame for that teams loss.

There are still a few soccer games on TV as well, you just have to really look for them. And in case you haven’t heard the the USA team beat Mexico City to make the World Cup finals.

Oh, and let’s not forget Hockey, the pre-season started this month, in fact Hockey Fans, Sept 17, the LA Kings played the Ducks of Anaheim!

http://www.nhl.com/ice/schedulebyweek.htm?navid=nav-sch-main#

Now, let’s talk basketball, are you ready for Lakers and Clipper games? Before you can blink an eye, basketball season will be starting. October 5 to be exact with the Lakers playing the Golden Warriors in Ontario’s Citizens Business Bank Arena located in San Bernardino County.

This make be the last season Kobe and several other Lakers Players, that alone should give your eyes and ears open for ‘The Kobe Show’

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College Basketball is schedule to begin their pre-season games at the end of October. You can
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http://www.uclabruins.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=30500&SPID=126928&SPSID=749889.

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No matter what sports you are ‘into’ it is a great time of the year to be a sport fan, you can even find a few golf tournaments still being played for you enjoy.

My only wish for us here in Southern California is to finally get our own NFL team.
Until
Then, I will have to be content to go to a few local college games and watching the NFL on TV.
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_/id/8850327/no-teams-file-los-angeles-move-2013-sources

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