Watching NFL is the Most Annoying Sports-Related Content on TV Anymore

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I can&#x27;t take it anymore. The sequence....KICKOFFCommercials in order: Progressive, Verizon, Nationwide, CBS propagandaSTART ONE DRIVE, END w/ FGCommercials time: Nationwide, CBS propaganda, Progressive, Verizon.KICKOFFCommercials time: Verizon, Nationwide, Verizon, (insert local health insurance company)START DRIVE, TIMEOUT TWO PLAYS INCommercial time: More big name companies using dogs and zombies to attract the attention span of your average idiot, VERIZON, VERIZON, VERIZON, VERIZON and VERIZON.People are complaining about Major League Baseball games lasting too long?  ARE YOU KIDDING!?!?!  I only have to sit through 3-4 commercials TOPS during inning breaks.  I&#x27;d rather watch a clean up hitter play with his nuts out of the batters box for five minutes than see another Verizon commercial with that idiotic robotic voice as the IPHONE talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The NFL has become so commercial (&lt;&lt;&lt; I get it), so mixed via culturally and gender in viewership that it has taken on the role as the longest, most annoying aspect of televised sporting events.  And this is just getting worse and worse every year; especially since the power companies own the same d**n slots every d**n Sunday.Simply put, if I&#x27;m not betting, I DVR the games I wanted to watch and check them out later in the day.  I don&#x27;t understand how ANYBODY with no action on a game could sit there and put up with the time and length of a given game coupled with the constant badgering and idiocy put upon every viewer by the commercials.

TheDrizzle77 · Answer

I can&#x27;t take it anymore. The sequence....KICKOFFCommercials in order: Progressive, Verizon, Nationwide, CBS propagandaSTART ONE DRIVE, END w/ FGCommercials time: Nationwide, CBS propaganda, Progressive, Verizon.KICKOFFCommercials time: Verizon, Nationwide, Verizon, (insert local health insurance company)START DRIVE, TIMEOUT TWO PLAYS INCommercial time: More big name companies using dogs and zombies to attract the attention span of your average idiot, VERIZON, VERIZON, VERIZON, VERIZON and VERIZON.People are complaining about Major League Baseball games lasting too long?  ARE YOU KIDDING!?!?!  I only have to sit through 3-4 commercials TOPS during inning breaks.  I&#x27;d rather watch a clean up hitter play with his nuts out of the batters box for five minutes than see another Verizon commercial with that idiotic robotic voice as the IPHONE talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The NFL has become so commercial (&lt;&lt;&lt; I get it), so mixed via culturally and gender in viewership that it has taken on the role as the longest, most annoying aspect of televised sporting events.  And this is just getting worse and worse every year; especially since the power companies own the same d**n slots every d**n Sunday.Simply put, if I&#x27;m not betting, I DVR the games I wanted to watch and check them out later in the day.  I don&#x27;t understand how ANYBODY with no action on a game could sit there and put up with the time and length of a given game coupled with the constant badgering and idiocy put upon every viewer by the commercials.

TheDrizzle77 · Answer

And these NFL commercials like the NFL Now app. Are people really this passionate about their team, or is this just the NFL really overplaying its product?

I came from a household where we didn't really give a s**t if the Steelers were winning or not (ATS different story). We'd watch for entertainment, but we weren't like these commercials, where you have to wear your jersey at all times while watching in your team color-themed living room with chips and dip and food layouts and.....and women of the household watching and wearing eyeblack.

BWS77 · Answer

Twice they have ran long on commercials and came back from the break after a play has started.    The NFL has done a masterful job disguising the fact that they have the most boring product of the 4 major sports.

smarterthanyou · Answer

"I&#x27;d rather watch a clean up hitter play with his nuts out of the batters box for five minutes..."

smarterthanyou · Answer

whatever happened to beer commercials?

TheGoldenGoose · Answer

You know it... What does it say when Tail-Gating is the best part about going to the game?

BWS77 · Answer

People have to be drunk to sit through a game

BWS77 · Answer

And now we get Troy Aikman mumbling his way through a Cowboys game.   Just awful

TheDrizzle77 · Answer

Man I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not the only one that feels this way.  I put the NFL and college football on opposite ends of the spectrum.  For cfb, I will sit through a few, A FEW Verizon commercials to reach a conclusion.  Like it&#x27;s said above, it&#x27;s the genius marketing skills that make the NFL look like the obsession, the Wonka promotion that everybody can&#x27;t get enough of.  I think what put them over the top is their ability to sell to women.  Teaming up with Victoria&#x27;s Secret to create the sports line, emphasizing beautiful women in fan commercials...pioneers.  The more the NFL became the commercial monster tyrant it is today, the more it&#x27;s growing into the vanilla, cookie-cutter and institutionalized for the unisex fan, the fantasy football gamer and the social media-friendly, sport.

wolffer12 · Answer

People still actually watch the games and not the NFL redzone channel. 2 years in a row all I have watched is that. Never a commerical break

BWS77 · Answer

$10 says Troy is off to San Fran to meet up with his &#x27;partner&#x27; Joe Buck after the game and have a 3-way with Tony Romo

BWS77 · Answer

They don&#x27;t have to sell to the face-painters because they are already there.... Getting the fantasy nerds to take 6&#x2B; hours on a Sunday wasn&#x27;t always working so that&#x27;s why we have Thursday night games so they gather around and talk about that game on Thursday and Friday.  I&#x27;ll sit through 12&#x2B; hours every College Saturday because if I watch 10 games I can see 20 different types of offense, I can see upsets and teams taking chances.   Watch an NFL Sunday and I see the same old good teams and the same old bad teams, conservative coaches, predictable play calling and a garbage-ton of commercials.....Seriously, If I see that JJ Watt dancing commercial 1 more time I&#x27;m gonna flip... and I&#x27;ll put an over/under on that commercial being on 6.5 times during the Sunday Night Game.Look at the Super Bowl....  I LOATHE the Super Bowl.  It&#x27;s not about the game.  It&#x27;s about the party, it&#x27;s about the commercials, it&#x27;s about the awful halftime show, it&#x27;s about Media Day..... It&#x27;s about $$$.   The game gets lost in all of that.  The last Super Bowl party I went to (true story) was the first Giants/Patriots game where the Pats were undefeated.  No joke, I had 1 person ask who was playing.  At that point I thought to myself that this person must be a total shut-in.  How could someone not see on a commercial or on the news or the internet or a newspaper who was playing?  Then the same person shooshed me at the first timeout when the commercials started.... I stayed till halftime and left.

searchwarrant · Answer

bigtime wrestling these days, has been for awhile.

mr_bollox · Answer

i don&#x27;t get why people watch commercials even for a minute.I have "reserve" channels so the moment they go to one, I go to something else, be it another sports event or Man versus food etc. Or I go to the fridge, take the garbage out etc.And anybody who&#x27;s watching cbs or fox on sunday instead of the redzone is frankly stupid

isport · Answer

Anymore?Dude, English.

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

The redzone channel is simply catered for degenerate gamblers, I watch redzone when i have 2/3/4 plays going, If i have one bet or no bets, I&#x27;d rather watch the marquee game of the day, Redzone is just as irritating because how are you supposed to focus on a game when they keep switching over, &#x27;Let&#x27;s go double box here&#x27; or &#x27;Triple box&#x27;, It&#x27;s pointless in my book.

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

I actually agree with the OP regarding the NFL, Past two weeks my mums been in hospital and with all the going and coming from there, I haven&#x27;t been able to bet and in turn I haven&#x27;t watched an NFL game since, Just been checking the box scores, When you have no money on the NFL, or if you&#x27;re not a die hard fan of a team, Is there any point of watching? I&#x27;m not so sure, I can watch football or cricket without any betting, Maybe it&#x27;s a limey thing, I don&#x27;t know.

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

I think that&#x27;s an exaggeration on the part of the commercial, Don&#x27;t think that actually happens.

MaineRoad · Answer

I think more people are starting to feel this way. Very few of the stadiums were full yesterday (Sea, Philly, NYJ). The NFL decided years ago that it could package a product that non-sports fans would watch (I swear 30% of Seahawks fans are 27-year-old girls in #12 jerseys), and actual sports fans would tolerate. It has worked tremendously well, but I do sense we've reached a bit of a tipping point. There have been all sorts of rules put in place to see that as little football is played as possible. The clock runs on virtually everything; and, when it stops, it is restarted as quickly as possible. In last night's Eagles game, the Giants ran a play with about a minute left in the first quarter. They then had a delay of game penalty, after which the clock kept running (after a penalty on the offense?; whatever). In place of actual football, we have commedcial breaks.

I can watch the NFL in bars, when there are 5-6 games on at the same time. At least you know something will be happening somewhere. At home, I turn it on, hit pause, and go do something for an hour or so. Then I come back and watch the game in about 45 minutes on the DVR. That's bearable. I am actually sentenced to GO to two NFL games this season [Baltimore at Pittsburgh and Indy at Cleveland] and am already dreading it. I sense I'm not alone.

MaineRoad · Answer

A WSJ article a few years back found that the average NFL game had more time spent on replays than on actual action, and that a typical tv viewer will see 100+ commercials during a typical NFL game.

https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406

thorpe · Answer

If you "grow up" watching a sport, I think you can enjoy watching it being played at the highest level without money on it or a rooting interest.  Persoannly, I don&#x27;t enjoy watching a game if I have big money on it (and I don&#x27;t bet big any more anyways) unless it is 42-0 in my favor because it upsets me when the players make stupid decisions or the refs make lopsided calls.Yesterday was a great day in the NFL for me and I didn&#x27;t bet a dollar all day.

ClubDirt · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by MaineRoad]  I think more people are starting to feel this way.  Very few of the stadiums were full yesterday (Sea, Philly, NYJ).  The NFL decided years ago that it could package a product that non-sports fans would watch (I swear 30% of Seahawks fans are 27-year-old girls in #12 jerseys), and actual sports fans would tolerate.  It has worked tremendously well, but I do sense we&#x27;ve reached a bit of a tipping point. There have been all sorts of rules put in place to see that as little football is played as possible.  The clock runs on virtually everything; and, when it stops, it is restarted as quickly as possible.  In last night&#x27;s Eagles game, the Giants ran a play with about a minute left in the first quarter.  They then had a delay of game penalty, after which the clock kept running (after a penalty on the offense?; whatever).  In place of actual football, we have commedcial breaks.  &#xD;&#xA;I can watch the NFL in bars, when there are 5-6 games on at the same time.  At least you know something will be happening somewhere.  At home, I turn it on, hit pause, and go do something for an hour or so.  Then I come back and watch the game in about 45 minutes on the DVR.  That&#x27;s bearable.  I am actually sentenced to GO to two NFL games this season [Baltimore at Pittsburgh and Indy at Cleveland] and am already dreading it.  I sense I&#x27;m not alone.   [/Quote]this is a good point that went largely unnoticed.  a while back they changed the way the clock is handled in football to make it almost a running clock except at the end of the game.  the actual football is shorter but the broadcast is about the same length.  in other words, just more commercials.  i record most of the games and fast forward thru a lot of the garbage.  it also helps to avoid any live bets or halftime bets.

bizkilla · Answer

It&#x27;s unbearable. Especially considering that the 60 minute game has only a fraction of actual action involved. Add in false starts and other penalties, i don&#x27;t see how this sport can survive long term. I think Marc Cuban is righT in his long term prospectus of the sport. Sure, it&#x27;s rooted in us and after months without it people fiend for it, but not only is the actual attending of the game unbearable, the tv product is getting worse and worse.Even though I loathe it, the bar experience may be the best option. At least you got 7 games going on early and another 5 later, so there at least is something.

THEMUGG · Answer

I agree......it has gotten ridiculous. I'll watch the RZ instead of any game (other than rooting interest games). But it's not just the NFL, it's tv in general. I watched a movie the other night that had a 3 hour run time on the channel it was being aired. Having seen the movie before I thought that was odd so I looked it up..........& sure enough, it's actual run time is 124 mins. So they tacked on an extra hour of commercial time.
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" is 135 mins..........but was allotted 3.5 hours..........& I pay monthly to get insulted like this.

I'm about ready to cut ties with cable tv........ an antenna won't work where I'm at, but if I want to see a game I can go to a bar or a buddies place.

SteelCash · Answer

Kickoffcommercialsthree playstime outcommercialssix playsinjurycommercialspenalty for hitting a defenseless receiverpenalty on blindside blockpenalty for helmet contact when there wasn&#x27;t anycommercialspenalty for helmet contact when his helmet grazed the players chinpenalty for a pinky finger grazing the QB&#x27;s helmettouchdowncommercialskickoff goes out of the end zone againI agree 100%.  I haven&#x27;t missed a Steelers game since 1985.  I went canoeing a couple Sundays ago because I just don&#x27;t enjoy it as much anymore.  It&#x27;s bad.

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