That after the usual far too long offseason, and constant incessant media overhype of the revolting unamerican borefest known as soccer, we can finally watch real football tonight. Points will be scored, there will be action, there will be bone jarring hits. The clock will run down instead of up. When a guy runs out of bounds, the clock WILL STOP. There will be no mystery time added. There will be no scarfed waif thin hipsters singing in the crowd. It's pointless pre season shlock. It's the Hall of Fame game, but who cares. It's football and it's BACK!
I'll say this about soccer though......no commercials! How many breaks in action does a NFL game have to show us the same beer/car commercial? But yes, it's nice that the season is right around the corner.
And a guy running away from, not towards, his teammates after a score while stripping his clothes off
I love football, way more than I like soccer, but there's no need to bash a sport you obviously don't understand. And commercials are killing this game I fell in love with in 1984.
There's a lot of things killing the game....commercials being at the top. I like soccer and I understand it. I watch the big events like the Copa, Euro, WC and the like. It's world class competition. But people like to joke around about soccer here. Even people who like it. Football, baseball, and basketball will always be the main focus of fans here. Just a little humor man.
Thank God football is back. I can breathe again. Offseason is terrible. I am afraid one of these next few years, I will be depressed enough not to be able handle 6 months of off season and commit suicide. Jets are back. Jets or no Jets. That's the fucking question. Yeehaw!!!
I hear you Walt. I'm probably over-sensitive because I have to listen to so many idiots on this side of the Pond bashing the NFL when they know nothing about it!
Yeah. Same thing. It's the kind of thing where you'd see a comedian making fun. I was gonna say something about the brawls that broke out at the Euro but I left it out.... I remember going to a Giants game in the early 90's and being really annoyed by the breaks in the game due to tv commercials. It's worse now.
You just survived a failed military coup d' etat in some savage middle eastern backwater and you really think you can't live without the goddamn Jets? Jesus, man. A little perspective.
Dealerships and Car Salesmen, New and Used are licking their chops that their commercials will be inundating us like some great flood.. Cant wait to know JD Power just gave some vehicle a review that's thumbs up or Chevy letting people know how much they appreciate their opinion oh and it will be the SAME commercial about 80 xs Don't worry, Flo from Progressive will be on hand to mix it up
Love you dentist. Perspective? Cool. Jets are my life after my family. How about that for a perspective? Here is what I texted my friend Mike(my previous boss) at 4:13 a.m Turkey time the night of the coupe. "A fighter jet bombed the building next to us. Lost power. Pray for me Mikey. Not afraid of death at all but don't want my kids grow up without a father and don't want to die before Jets win a superbowl"
In a typical NFL game there are 12 minutes of action total (snap to whistle). 6 minutes offense, 6 minutes defense. That's it, 12 minutes. Other than the opening ceremony for the Olympics every 4 years, there's no other sport on earth that keeps fans in their seats 3-1/2 hours for 12 minutes of live action!
OMG This just in .."..hall of fame game may be cancelled due to paint on field ...players concerned" Patcheaters at work already????? SMH at grounds keepers in Canton lol
The only thing that bothers me about kick offs truly is the scoring sequence. Touchdown, extra point, commercial, kickoff, commercial. And these are long commercial breaks too.
They should try and play a football game in between all the commercials, it's becoming almost unwatchable
