by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:30 am
Here is my relationship with football. Quick recap because maybe everyone knows: the blatant fix regarding the 2018 NFC Champion, coupled with the league picking on my team with the bullshit bounty thing, coupled with the garbage commissioner who is slime just makes me like the sport less. It's behind baseball and hockey for me. OKAY!
I was running around on Sunday with my nephew, who is slowly becoming aware of football. And it occurred to me that it is just not silly that ALL games aren't on some channel for free, it's just stupid and greedy. The .... Steelers vs Falcons were on. What a marquee matchup. Saints / Panthers is no better, but we were at a pizza parlor and a haircut joint and they just had Fox or whatever and, welp, that was the game. Go f yourself, if you want more, pay hundreds of dollars to get them all.
It's just dumb and it's greedy and it's stupid to lock America into one "free" game. I came away with contempt for the league. Which I have had for a long time now. There's four trillion channels on cable, they could at least use that, but they won't.
So. It was great to check in on the Saints game. I think your problem is that Derek Carr was TOO good and our coach pulled him. Ha! Ha ha! The same will happen to me this week when I have Justin Herbert going against the Panthers. I hope Carolina makes enough of a game of it that JH gets me three TD throws. Will they????????????????????
Also, having not paid attention for a bit, quarterback salaries are truly mind blowing. Tua is at $53 million a year? I am not saying they don't deserve it. It was just shocking to see how much it has gone up when I wasn't looking very closely. I think Brees was at $25 million on his last deal and he was the third best quarterback in the league. Tua is (IMO, not a negative) somewhere around 13-16 and 5 years later is easily twice that.
But I don't begrudge anyone making money and I hope he OK. You guys splattered him.
Here is my relationship with football. Quick recap because maybe everyone knows: the blatant fix regarding the 2018 NFC Champion, coupled with the league picking on my team with the bullshit bounty thing, coupled with the garbage commissioner who is slime just makes me like the sport less. It's behind baseball and hockey for me. OKAY!
I was running around on Sunday with my nephew, who is slowly becoming aware of football. And it occurred to me that it is just not silly that ALL games aren't on some channel for free, it's just stupid and greedy. The .... Steelers vs Falcons were on. What a marquee matchup. Saints / Panthers is no better, but we were at a pizza parlor and a haircut joint and they just had Fox or whatever and, welp, that was the game. Go f yourself, if you want more, pay hundreds of dollars to get them all.
It's just dumb and it's greedy and it's stupid to lock America into one "free" game. I came away with contempt for the league. Which I have had for a long time now. There's four trillion channels on cable, they could at least use that, but they won't.
So. It was great to check in on the Saints game. I think your problem is that Derek Carr was TOO good and our coach pulled him. Ha! Ha ha! The same will happen to me this week when I have Justin Herbert going against the Panthers. I hope Carolina makes enough of a game of it that JH gets me three TD throws. Will they????????????????????
Also, having not paid attention for a bit, quarterback salaries are truly mind blowing. Tua is at $53 million a year? I am not saying they don't deserve it. It was just shocking to see how much it has gone up when I wasn't looking very closely. I think Brees was at $25 million on his last deal and he was the third best quarterback in the league. Tua is (IMO, not a negative) somewhere around 13-16 and 5 years later is easily twice that.
But I don't begrudge anyone making money and I hope he OK. You guys splattered him.