Current mood:

aggravated

What the NFL needs to learn...
I guess, more specifically, what every media outlet that deals with the NFL needs to learn... Here, let me find my fonts and stuff so it's in big lettering and a bright color:

NOBODY ROOTED FOR GLOBO GYM.

The Patriots this year seem to be wallowing in their "villain" role, and Bostonian Fanbois are frothing at the mouth, foing to great lengths to justify the vitriol, and simultaneously trying to forget every parallel to criticism that they've levelled against OTHER sports teams in the past decade. Remember a few years ago when Peyton Manning broke the touchdown record for a single season? I sure as hell knew some NE fans that accused the Colts of running up the score for stats. That same person just gives me a blank look when I bring up the scores of New England games this year.

OK, so ... *pause*. Getting off track, Dan. How does this relate back to my main point?

Everybody watched and cheered Average Joe's when they beat Skillz That Killz. Somehow, I doubt that Globo Gym beating The Kamikazes was huge news. Lance Armstrong cheered for Peter LaFleur when they took down the Poughkeepsie State Flying Cougars (well, Gordon saved them - but you get what I'm saying). I can't imagine Sportscenter on The Ocho devoting a lot of coverage to White Goodman and Globo Gym's making mincemeat of the Las Vegas Police Department.

But -- what happens in real life?

The coverage of the NFL is ridiculous this season, what with Globo Gy -- I mean the New England Patriots and their current run. In an amazing CONTRAST to Dodgeball, 3 of 5 days this week showed "Pardon The Interruption" running TWO segments on the Pats, even though the show is all about doing a whirlwind tour across ALL of sporting news in just a half hour. It's a plain fact - watch football coverage, and you are force fed the Patriots. Everyone knows that the Pats are going to blow through the crap that is the AFC East, and everyone knows that they CAN run up the score if they want to. That's all that needs to be said - and it has been said. A lot. STOP COVERING FREAKIN' GLOBO GYM AND GIVE ME SOME AVERAGE JOE'S!!! I don't have Direct TV - so I'm stuck with what the networks show me unless I go to a sports bar or something, and every week I have to watch the Pats. EVERY WEEK. It has made me make Sunday plans other than football. I have watched less football now that I have in the past decade, and it's absolutely 100% because I'm sick of the Patriots. They are good; more weeks than not they're playing a team that is significantly less good (especially since 3/8s of their schedule is conference games) ... I don't want to see it. There has to be a competitive game around somewhere. If you make me watch the Pats, apparently I will go elsewhere ... because I have!

I know people like me. I know people who are watching less football because of this. We are watching less because it's boring. What you are showing us is boring. There has to be "not boring" out there. Show us Average Joe's versus Team Blitzkrieg, please give us a break from Globo Gym - because The Ocho didn't even show us their first round matchup!

Please?