fridge Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I don't watch ESPN or NFL Network and mostly just follow Bills news about 20-30 minutes per week. I find that the NFL has morphed into soap opera/wrestling, and for whatever reason fans eat it up. I can't stand the politicization of everything, the over production of the story lines, the worshipping of big markets, and the inconsistent referees/rules. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 For me it's stronger than it's every been....however, I know what you're saying OP. I used to watch almost every game when I was single. After the Bills game, I wanted to see other teams play. Well, in the last few years, I got married and had a kid. I just don't have time to keep up with the NFL like I used to. I get the Bills every game, my wife knows that's mandatory. Sundays are now just Bills games. I get my info about the rest of the NFL basically on this site and ESPN/NFL.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I was losing interest but Josh Allen saved me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I usually wait till the first 3-4 games have been played, then maybe I'm not so interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbillsfan2206 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 No. But I have lost all interest in baseball 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramza86 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Id feel the same way if it wasnt for fantasy football and draft kings. They make you watch games you normally wouldnt be interested in...and hey....it could turn out to be a good football game too. I will always be interested in a good football game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Joshin' Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 44 minutes ago, Boyst62 said: Yep But, I'm really starting to dig soccer.??♂️ Rugby is better..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpberr Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I could wax on about all the stuff I don't like about the "modern" game but the primary reason I'm less interested... Priorities change as you get older and you choose to do different things with your Sunday afternoons and your time overall. For example, if its a beautiful Sunday afternoon in fall, there's 0% chance of me being parked in front of a television or in a bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 No. The intrigue of this year's quarterback class and Brady in his 40's has made me more excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ko12010 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: My Sundays in the fall used to be centered around the NFL. I'd wake up, watch the pregame show. Drive to the bar. Watch the Bills. Drive home. Watch whatever late afternoon game I could get on local TV, or RedZone. Watch the Sunday Night game. Then usually watch MNF. Now, I'm just as passionate about The Bills as I've ever been. Go out to the bar, watch every game. New Year's Eve was probably the best day of my year last year. Pumped for this season. But I can count on one hand the number of non Bills games I watched last year. If anything, I'd rather watch a college game if I have no direct rooting interest. I don't give a **** about the anthem protests. While I'm not the biggest fan of the new rule changes, it hasn't turned me off completely to the NFL. I just find myself less enthused to watch NFL football than I used to be. Even my fantasy players I usually just check the stats online. Anybody else feel this way? It's ONLY my love for the Bills, sparked as a 5 or so yr old when I--unlike everyone else I was watching with--wanted the team currently losing the Super Bowl (Bills down to Cowboys) to win. I'm more removed from the game emotionally, but only as it pertains to the other teams and the NFL as a whole (excluding the Bills). Feel the same way about the Sabres. Edited August 24, 2018 by ko12010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPS Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I was heading in that direction with Rex, but then McBeane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Landing Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Here is a shot of the pool I run at work. This gets me pumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Formation Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Actually, after years without cable TV and 17 years of no playoffs I hadn't watched much TV at all but now after ending the drought and drafting Josh Allen I can no longer go without football, just signed a 2 year contract with the cable company, I'm pumped for the Bills and NFL football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohboychoboy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I watch every Bills away game and have attended every Bills home game since I was 14 years old (I'm 59 now), so my passion for the Bills is greater than ever. But like the original poster, I don't watch many of the other games even though I've been running my Fantasy League since 1982. And again like the original poster, I've replaced my NFL diet with the college game. Saturday nights are THE BOMB!! Can't wait til Notre Dame - Michigan next Saturday and then Pitt-Penn State the week after. Some Saturday nights there's 3 or 4 really good games to tune into, especially when you consider the late starts on the West Coast with Stanford, USC, UCLA, etc. Two things have really irritated me about the NFL in recent years - 1) the Anthem protests. I could care less. Donald Trump, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity -- please stay away from my Sundays!!! Let me watch the damn game!!!!! And 2) The Catch Rule. If it looks like a catch, if it smells like a catch, if it talks like a catch . If every fan in that stadium thinks its a catch. If every ref on that field thinks its a catch. If everyone watching at home thinks its a catch. ITS A DAMN CATCH!!!!!!!! End of story!!!!!!! I could care less what some guy sitting in a TV studio analyzing every frame millisecond-by-agonizing-millisecond thinks -- ITS A CATCH!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Nope. Just as strong as ever. It's my favorite sports league of any kind. I have spoken with some people who turned away from the NFL because of the anthem stuff and I just shake my head. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 10 minutes ago, eball said: Nope. Just as strong as ever. It's my favorite sports league of any kind. I have spoken with some people who turned away from the NFL because of the anthem stuff and I just shake my head. the anthem wasn't a legit reason for real fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 49 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said: That's too bad I hear next is that you will start enjoying your wings breaded with ranch..... I threw up in my mouth. Soccer is terrible btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyDays Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 No I love football as much as ever, if not more. I don't care about any other sports. I'll go to Sabres games occasionally, otherwise I don't really watch them. Baseball and basketball bore me. Football is unlike any other sport, the way every position is so different from what every other position is doing. I have to admit I'm addicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I love the Bills. I kinda like the NFL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacklabel Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Maybe a little bit. As someone else pointed out, it may just be the product of maturity and understanding the business side of it a little bit more. Usually have ball games going all day every Sunday in the fall. I think what has changed most is my respect for the guys that play this game. When I was younger it was easier to be like, "Oh man, Player A is a piece of crap, he gets paid to make that play and he misses? He's garbage, get someone else in there!" And now it's just much easier to understand that they're all human beings trying their best. None of them are perfect and seeing some fans get so insanely upset over certain things just boggles my mind. Obviously I want my team to win, I want the players on my team to succeed and have awesome games every time they take the field, but if that doesn't happen I'm not gonna let it ruin my day or cause me to throw my remote at the wall. That type of behavior gets so old and obnoxious after a while. I'm obviously not as vested in other games as I am for Bills games but I can definitely sit down and watch two other teams face off and enjoy it. Really, this era of football is probably the greatest ever, just because of how the sport has evolved. I mean, how many active players are we watching right now that are surefire Hall of Famers? Probably a record number. And we're seeing records broken or set almost every season. It's a good time to be a fan of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr. Jerk Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 The block is always the no1 priority, ya dig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: My Sundays in the fall used to be centered around the NFL. I'd wake up, watch the pregame show. Drive to the bar. Watch the Bills. Drive home. Watch whatever late afternoon game I could get on local TV, or RedZone. Watch the Sunday Night game. Then usually watch MNF. Now, I'm just as passionate about The Bills as I've ever been. Go out to the bar, watch every game. New Year's Eve was probably the best day of my year last year. Pumped for this season. But I can count on one hand the number of non Bills games I watched last year. If anything, I'd rather watch a college game if I have no direct rooting interest. I don't give a **** about the anthem protests. While I'm not the biggest fan of the new rule changes, it hasn't turned me off completely to the NFL. I just find myself less enthused to watch NFL football than I used to be. Even my fantasy players I usually just check the stats online. Anybody else feel this way? I like football but I'm not a stats geek. I'm only passionate about the Bills and UB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 There are a lot of bad games each week in the NFL, which makes it tough to get excited sometimes. However, I almost always watch Sunday night football as it's the best broadcast in the sport and they do a pretty solid job of trying to find a great matchup....all Bills games of course...and then I usually watch MNF and TNF b/c why not? A lot of the Sunday day games are ignored assuming the Bills are playing. I might record one of them if it looks like a really good matchup on paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanNC Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Yes. I watch the Bills still because .... well I can't stop now. I dont give a damn about making time to watch other games though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphadawg7 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Not at all!!! Not only are the Bills the most exciting they have been in years, but this has been an incredible offseason and one of the most exciting in years. From FA, trades, the draft, storylines, etc. How anyone can be less interested in a what I believe is one of the most exciting in a long time is just crazy to me. Even fantasy football has so many exciting things about it with so much young talent, vet talent in new places, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Direhard Fan Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Just called Sunday NFL Ticket and told them I'm only interested in the Bill's. Lied. Cried a little and got $70.00 a month off for 12 months if I stayed with them. Nice people to do business with. Ask for retention. Love the NFL even more now. $840.00 more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbillsfan2206 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 48 minutes ago, eball said: Nope. Just as strong as ever. It's my favorite sports league of any kind. I have spoken with some people who turned away from the NFL because of the anthem stuff and I just shake my head. I hate those people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Almighty Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Personally I only watch the pregame shows on Thursday, Sunday and Monday. As for the games I only watch 1 game on Monday and Thursday and on Sundays I only watch the 1pm, 4pm and 830pm games. I lost interest a very very long time ago. Oh I forgot I also watch NFLN after the Sunday games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddaryl Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Just Joshin' said: Rugby is better..... Australian Rules Football is the best though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Vance Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Boyst62 said: Yep But, I'm really starting to dig soccer.??♂️ Same here. Actually Ive always loved soccer, but now there are actual options to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullBuchanan Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Fantasy keeps me engaged. I do miss the pageantry of the 80s and 90s. I'm not sure how much of that I should attribute to not being a kid anymore, how much the league has changed or how much the world has changed. I used to watch road to the super bowl on repeat as a kid, and it seemed like winning a super bowl was the biggest thing in the world that could change a city like Buffalo forever. The people were all in. Even if you didn't understand it like football you wanted them to win. I think a lot of places actually felt like that. These days the world seems more complicated and the Sheen of winning a championship seems no where near as intense and fades just as quickly. People don't care as much as a whole, even though the fanbase is way larger, and that takes wind out of the sails. Makes me kind of sad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBear Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Yes and No. I have young kids now, so I watch far less of it than I did when I was younger. Having said that, I still follow it pretty closely due to fantasy football. And my interest has increased since McBeane came to town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Definitely. It’s a little different though. I watch the Bills more than I used to at certain times of my life. But with age/family (in my 50s now) I have less time/more competing commitments so I spend a whole lot less time overall watching football. The NFL’s problem isn’t me - people aging out of obsessions is a normal and long term trend. The problem is (1) we’re aging as a society; (2) a larger part of our population is foreign born and didn’t grow up with American football; (3) people under 30 are a whole lot less interested in the NFL than prior generations. These are demographic trends that are largely immune to the NFL’s efforts — hiding national anthem protests, player safety rules, player conduct, etc — to make the game more appealing (less off-putting?). That’s why the decline strikes me as a permanent phenomenon, not some passing overreaction to anything the NFL is doing or has failed to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 13 minutes ago, Direhard Fan said: Just called Sunday NFL Ticket and told them I'm only interested in the Bill's. Lied. Cried a little and got $70.00 a month off for 12 months if I stayed with them. Nice people to do business with. Ask for retention. Love the NFL even more now. $840.00 more. I don't need Sunday Ticket because I had it last year, and still went to the Bills Backers bar every Sunday. But my DirecTV box broke the other day. Haven't had time to call yet, but I'm hoping to pull a sob story, talk to a manager, etc, to get some sort of deal on the Center Ice package. 1 hour ago, mannc said: In general, no, I'm not less interested in the NFL. What I'm tired of is being subjected to games involving the same teams, week in and week out. This might be it too. I used to work for Dish, and so we had to go over training every fall on rebutals for people who wanted to cancel for DirecTV Sunday Ticket. One thing they had was a chart of how many nationally televised games each team had. New England had 9, Dallas had like 6 or 7, Buffalo had the mandatory Thursday game. 1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said: For me it's stronger than it's every been....however, I know what you're saying OP. I used to watch almost every game when I was single. After the Bills game, I wanted to see other teams play. Well, in the last few years, I got married and had a kid. I just don't have time to keep up with the NFL like I used to. I get the Bills every game, my wife knows that's mandatory. Sundays are now just Bills games. I get my info about the rest of the NFL basically on this site and ESPN/NFL.com I'm engaged now. Getting married in November. That might be it too. When I was single, sports were my whole life. I still love sports, but I think they've taken proper precedence in my life. Like I said, I'm just as in love with the Bills as always. It might actually be because of the fact that we're playing so good. I'm actually watching decent meaningful football, for the most part. So I don't have to go somewhere else to see a good game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 55 minutes ago, joesixpack said: I love the Bills. I kinda like the NFL. Yep. This is where I'm at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I was becoming less and less interested every year that the drought got longer. Now that Ralph and his trash are gone, I’m back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToGoGo Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 100% The Patriots dynasty took the air out of a lot of NFL fans. Even if people don't admit it, deep down they know a lot of Pats games in particular are fixed somehow. The game is softer than it ever was, and the pregame shows are just trash with zero insight, personal stories nobody cares about, talking over each other, and fake laughter. I get excited in the offseason but I lose a lot of my passion during the season when I see how much the refs can control the game with subjective holding and PI calls, and now defensive hits. The joy and excitement isn't there anymore, at least not like it used to be. Sunday used to be like Christmas morning, not anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 21 minutes ago, Bohemianfatboy said: Same here. Actually Ive always loved soccer, but now there are actual options to watch it. I was being sarcastic. I would rather stare at the sun than watch soccer. This is, after all, a football message board. ?? No offense 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, musichunch said: 100% The Patriots dynasty took the air out of a lot of NFL fans. Even if people don't admit it, deep down they know a lot of Pats games in particular are fixed somehow. The game is softer than it ever was, and the pregame shows are just trash with zero insight, personal stories nobody cares about, talking over each other, and fake laughter. I get excited in the offseason but I lose a lot of my passion during the season when I see how much the refs can control the game with subjective holding and PI calls, and now defensive hits. The joy and excitement isn't there anymore, at least not like it used to be. Sunday used to be like Christmas morning, not anymore. Pats winning isn’t a legit excuse, we went thru the Fish and Steelers kicking the AFC around with the Bills paying the price Edited August 24, 2018 by row_33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Vance Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 minute ago, Boyst62 said: I was being sarcastic. I would rather stare at the sun than watch soccer. This is, after all, a football message board. ?? No offense No offense taken. I understand I am in the minority. Still love my Bills and watch them whenever I can, but soccer is my favorite sport. I can watch just just about any soccer game, but it’s hard for me to watch football unless it’s the Bills or the Super Bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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