Take on the NFL Dildo

A fiend of mine me ruined that she hadn't watched an NFL game in a few years as her life got busy but sat down this weekend to watch one when she saw a gigantic flying dong come across her screen.  She rightly asked what happened to her beloved NFL and her question isn't the only such one out there.  The NFL has problems and the writing is on the wall for the sport but nobody knows quite why.  The ratings are down 10% year over year and everybody is scratching their heads to why

The ratings for the NFL are down 10% year over year, everybody is trying to figure out why

The election in general taking up everybody's attention 

The debates going head to head with games

The biggest stars retiring, hurt or getting old (Brady, Calvin, ADP, Manning)

Concussions

Lack of celebration (No Fun League)

Too many TV timeouts

Too expensive to go to games

People turned off by the wife beaters and other thugs and criminals 

The product sort of sucking 

Over-saturation with games Thursday night, Sunday morning, Sunday day, Sunday night and Monday Bight

Most of those games sucking donkey dongs 

They have taken all the hits away and may as well put shirts on the QBs

Replays

At the end of the day, it is probably a collection of all of those things, but mostly it is the fact that their core fans are all in their 40's.  They haven't done a good job getting as many young fans interested in the game and the ones that are, like me, have lives that get in the way.   Years ago, I'd find myself in a crappy city in Europe and go out at 2am to watch a crappy Jets game at a crappy Irish pub in a crappy part of town... today I wouldn't go to the lobby to watch anything.   

What it really comes down is that they need less dickheads and more dildos on the field 

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