Ray Rice

[Fritz]

I have to agree with Patler. The NFL as an entertainment "brand" has so overwhelmingly passed the NFL as a football league that it's getting harder and harder to find the actual football. Storylines of broadcasts are about individuals, not teams. Decisions are being made based on profit, and it's not that that's intrinsically bad - it's that profit is not tied to individual teams and their success (i.e. winning), it's now tied to the league as an entity, and that means an emphasis on individual stories, not on the games.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I have to agree with Patler. The NFL as an entertainment "brand" has so overwhelmingly passed the NFL as a football league that it's getting harder and harder to find the actual football. Storylines of broadcasts are about individuals, not teams.

You and Patler need sensitivity training. Get more in touch with your feelings, soften your hearts. Become fully human.

BTW, I hate the NFL for sort-of the opposite reason: too much player movement. Just when I start to really like an individual player, like James Jones, he was gone. I hated that minnie-me center, Scott Wells. Then I warmed up to him and he left. I agree with Seinfeld's old joke that the only thing that stays constant with pro sports are the uniforms, so we're cheering for laundry.