Are you losing interest in the NFL ?

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

The move from being an underdog team with no expectations to a team with high expectations has certainly made it all different. 
 

The only real visceral reactions I can recall this season was what I considered the low… loss to Pats, when it seem possible the season was just over, and the high, when Allen hit Gabe in the EZ for that TD. Then it got low again after the coin toss. 
 

Now I’m just excited to see what next year will be. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

NO!

[papazoid]

Are you losing interest in the NFL ?

 

let's see....

 

the bills are finally good

 

i won my fantasy league

 

doing well on my caesars app

 

ANSWER:  HELL NO 

[Gugny]

Nope.

 

The only time I became close to disinterested in football was during the Bills' Tyrod-era.  Never before and certainly not after.

[schoolhouserock]

No. Ask me again when Josh Allen announces his retirement.

[MJS]

Not at all. Learning that an NFL owner is corrupt and trying to cheat should have stopped being a surprise for you when you learned what the Patriots were doing all those years ago, and then again after the multiple Patriots scandals since then.

 

If anything, this shows that they will do anything to win. Ross wanted to tank to get a better draft pick to help them win. Tanking is nothing new. We know organizations want to tank sometimes. It's not that big of a deal to tank. But paying your coach to tank is idiotic.

 

The NFL has never been more interesting for me. For years I lamented that there were no young up-and-coming QB's in the league to take over the elite status from guys like Manning, Brees, Brady, etc. Now we have a bunch of guys like Allen, Mahomes, Herbert, Burrow, etc. For years I wanted the Bills to be good, and now they are.

 

So this is prime NFL interest for me.

Edited February 15, 2022 by MJS

[Nihilarian]

R U Serious? 

 

I've been a Buffalo Bills fan for so long... waited and watched this franchise for so many seasons under an owner who thought it was more profitable to keep the fans just on the edge of winning...while keeping butts in the seats.

 

Wanna know the reason as to why the franchise hired Chan Gailey? Because Chan told the owner he could win games without star players! He believed him. 

 

 

The Buffalo Bills currently have very wealthy owners and while concerned about the team making a profit...their living isn't dependent upon it. They are determined to field a winning team, win a super bowl. 

 

The Buffalo Bills have not only found a franchise QB under a wizard of a GM...they might have found one of the best to ever play the position. Has the NFL ever seen a QB play a perfect playoff game?...he had more TDs then incompletions against the hated division rival New England Patriots! 

 

Josh Allen, 21 of 25 for 308 yards, 5 TDs passing, 66 yards rushing.  becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 300 yards, run for 60 yards, and have five touchdowns passes in a playoff game. No Punts...

 

While Stephon Diggs was being doubled against KC in the next playoff game, his teammate WR Gabe Davis did something that NFL great WR Jerry Rice had never done... that was catch an NFL record four touch down passes in a playoff game. 

 

No NFL fan on earth wanted to see that Divisional playoff game between Buffalo and Kansas city end...36-42. Buffalo lost a heartbreaker. 

 

Only to be bored beyond belief watching the SB between two third place teams. Actually at 10-7, the Bengals were behind Tennessee 12-5, Kansas 12-5, Buffalo 11-6. 

 

So, the SB sucked a bit.

 

It is a great time to be an NFL fan and especially a Buffalo Bills fan! Great owners, great GM, HC, great players.  You now... might be able to surmise my answer. 

[Greg S]

Anyone who stuck by this team in the 70's, 84-85, and the 17 straight playoff less seasons isn't losing interest now. 

[fan_in_tx]

4 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Even shows about the NFL have less and less to do with football and seem more like the nightly news. Domestic Violence, COVID, fatal DWI/manslaughter...list goes on and on. Remember when football was an escape for a few hours from the real world issues? 

This is the point.. Early NFL was an escape that the everyday person could enjoy and build tradition upon with their families.  The family concept is disappearing in the US and so are the institutions that support it.  Going to game day in Buffalo in many ways is still enjoyable however there is that faction of people in every NFL city that ruins the experience for the typical family of 4.  

[BADOLBILZ]

If you are experiencing these symptoms it's probably:

 

https://www.verywellmind.com/things-to-do-if-you-feel-a-loss-of-interest-5093337

 

or just text 42424 and enter APPEAL for a complimentary bottle of like NFL again

 

[Rocky Landing]

Until someone can find a better way to get my family to leave me alone for three hours on a Sunday-- no, I will not be losing interest anytime soon.

[Alphadawg7]

No

[WhoTom]

The Bills finally hit the trifecta: GM, HC, and QB.

 

Losing interest? Not a chance.

 

[CircleTheWagons99]

yes

[RyanC883]

5 hours ago, nedboy7 said:

Yes.  I had zero interest in the SB this year.  I am starting to get the feeling the league has really become corrupt at a systemic level. The NFL is now a reflection of mega capitalism and our world in general.   And according to the media and a lot of narratives, if you are against billionaires manipulating reality then you are against a free market or even a socialist.  Oddly enough about half the people I talk to about the NFL are realizing it has gotten quite obvious.  I will still watch every Bills moment even while having doubts the league will ever let them win it all.  I could be completely overboard here but the product has really soured my perception. 

and I can totally respect this type of take as well. 

 

I think you may be completely overboard here.  What you are suggesting is that all these games are fixed.  That seems odd given the blatant PI non-call on Higgins when the Bengals scored a TD.  True, the refs only found their whistles in the last 2 minutes of the game, and that's maddening, but the Rams still had to get the ball into the redzone to draw the questionable PI call, which could have been a makeup for the non-call on Higgins.  

 

 

[RyanC883]

5 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

+1.  I go to a few home games,  but other times don't even watch.  Just multi-task, follow Bills GameCast on ESPN.com, etc...

 

Even during SuperBowl,  I went grocery shopping at end of 1st quarter and still made it home for 1/2 time show.  And I wasn't glued to TV until maybe when Rams got a free set of downs on ticky-tackyness.  Ironic? 😆 

 

I sit down and the flags and offsetting BS starts! 😆🤣😂

 

How history repeats itself 40 years later:

 

 

 

 

lots of teams/fans that lose gripe about officiating.  Seattle did it in 2005, I'm sure others as well.  it's like they forgot about the bad calls that went their way during the game.  Ref inconsistency is the issue, and all consequential plays (TDs, first downs at end of half's with alleged play-impacting penalties or non-calls) should be reviewable by a committee of refs.  

[Royale with Cheese]

I haven't lost interest but I take Bills losses, even bad losses better.  I'll think about it after but go about my day like normal.

I didn't watch any of Conference Championships games because I was still feeling the loss in the divisional round.  
I'm glad that Ozarks just came out, along with Kobra Cai and Narcos in the last 2 months.  That got me through.

[LeGOATski]

It's gotten too big for its britches in many ways and it's annoying. As long as the Bills don't become a sleezy organization like the Pats or WFT, I won't lose interest.

 

And I have additional interest in other leagues forming, like the AAF and XFL did, and the USFL now.

 

I want more football, not less football.

[benderbender]

I lost interest for a while in the NFL with the tuck rule. Didn’t help that we were only toes deep in the drought but for it to be so blatant and wrong was disconcerting.

 

But it’s not just the NFL. Everybody got into it. The UFC in the 2000s when St.Pierre smothered the top of his head in petroleum jelly to pass guards. Baseball in the 90s when it was obviously juiced. Then, ironically, I was just getting back into MLB when the Astros cheated.

[Ethan in Cleveland]

My passion for the Bills has never waned and with Allen it will continue.  My passion didn't go down during the drought.  The number of times I can see them live is few but I rarely go a whole year without seeing a game or two in Buffalo or on the road.  I was at NY Jets and at the Pats playoff game this year from Portland OR. 

 

As for the NFL, I lost interest in the NFL years ago.  Most of the games are awful.  The pregame and  halftime coverage when I do see it is just terrible. Ridiculous hyperbolic soundbites.  Total waste of time.  The officiating is terrible. No I don't believe there is a conspiracy for or against certain teams or players, I just think the quality is bad and the judgment calls are too variable.  Being on the West coast, the Thursday and Monday night games are half over by the time I am home from work.  

 

College has far better great matchups and games to choose from.  If I watch football, it is college on Saturday, the Bills and that is it.  When my kids were home then I would watch Seattle with my second son.  Now that he is in college I don't even watch Seattle.