Improving the presentation of the NFL...

Stop making players put on those oversized T shirts over their pads after the SB.

 

Man those look stupid.

Good post.

 

JMO in order.

 

• I think the NFL thinks 75 plus % of their fan base wouldn't understand a cover two from a single high and simply wants QB ratings and give away/take away stats as the ceiling of what they're ready to digest.  I'm guessing fans that dive into advanced stats and information is pretty small. I'm sure the NFL has run plenty of ROI analysis and decided loudly yammering on about nothing in particular still draws a crowd. Shame they don't devote a few hours of programing / content to fans that want more though.
• No idea. Fans are going to share the info one way or another. Should make it easier.
• Like your Youtube comment, the NHL has it all over every other major sport in America. Nothing beats the NHL post game handshake and trophy presentation. I used to love the NFL commissioner getting an Olympia Beer / Champagne shower in the SB winning team locker room growing up while Don Criqui consoled a despondent Bud Grant outside the silent losers locker room.... The "everything has to be staged and presented within a carefully structured media friendly platform driven to portray inclusiveness while embracing NFL heritage" is getting old because if there's anything that NEEDS to break away from a cookie cutter staged approach to sameness it should be the wildly random and irrational response of handing a trophy to 53 guys that just spent 7 months sacrificing everything for the other 53 guys.  

How about firing every announcer. Replace them with Mike Franseca, Brad Childress, and a randomly chosen drunk fan from the stands.

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Replace them with Mike Franseca,

You really want more Peyton Manning slurping?

A big thing for me is show the starters for the SECOND half.  Guys get benched or hurt and  it's hard to tell who is on the field sometimes.

 

Also, I love it when they play classic rock or cool music as they head into a comercial break.

 

No scrolls on the bottom of the screen!  We all have internet, very distracting and unnecessary.

Great rant, Tit.. 

 

The YouTube policy drives me nuts.. At least we have the 22 now.

I could go for a lot more x's and o's between plays and a lot less 'dramatic' sideline shots of coaches/players/owners in their boxes.

Rusty had the right idea about the announcers. Play-by-play is a holdover from the golden age of radio, and is useless in today's world. Graphics can provide any info needed on a particular play, and other stats should be an interactive feature.

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Also, I love it when they play classic rock or cool music as they head into a comercial break.

To be honest, I could do without this.  And I could really do without the music video-style highlights presentation we increasingly seem to get roughly after the third quarter.  Although that's more sports broadcasting in general, not just the NFL.

I've thought this forever and I know they experimented with it for one game---but broadcasting the game without announcers.....even the most novice fans don't need to have the constant droning on about whatever.

I'm guessing--different transmissions with alternative audio feed could be done as easily as turning closed caption on and off...but it will never happen because they have the announcers hocking so many products...

I love the crowd noise, but have watched many a game in silence because of the announcers

Targeting ESPN (some would say BSPN) - The announcers should be heard, not seen. 

Personally, I would hate this, but that said, maybe they should include this sort of option with their Sunday Ticket.  You can have a choice to either watch the games with announcers or without announcers yet still hear the sounds of the fans in the stadium, etc. 

 

I seem to remember that experiment was done back in the '80s and I personally preferred having announcers.  That said, there are some announcers that are just awful out there and there don't seem to be as many great ones like there were in the past like Gowdy, Summerall, etc. 

Get more interesting, viable teams.  Check this weeks schedule and other than the Monday nite game which one is must see football?  

Thursday Night might be an OK game.

Sure it may be OK but it also has no charisma, no star power, no team that most likely will be playing deep into January.  In short, who but fans of those teams gives a hoot?

28 NFL teams, max.

Indeed. That's why the push for an 18 game season is so ridiculous. We don't need more crappy games. And we already have an 18 game season.

Its called "the playoffs. "

I'd be interested in having the local radio call married to the broadcast. TVs are all equipped with SAP ( Secondary Audio Program) to allow for Spanish broadcasts so it would be fairly simple to set that up. Then I don't have to listen to the network guys and can hear the local call with Wayne and Larry instead. Right now, I hit the mute button 50 times a game

 

I'd also like to see the networks fined massively every time they come back late from a commercial, missing actual football action. That egregious

 

Put ads on the turf/grass so we don't have to see so many commercials?

More pink especially when goddall is teaching Mom's how to tackle. Love to see the video of goddall curtsying followed by a head butt.

 

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Have bare breasted cheerleaders, wearing lacy panties, dance on the field in between plays.

They don't have much further to go. Wait for pay per view and it's a done deal.

Doug really hasn't figured this whole internet thing out yet apparently.

from Larsee's linked article above:

At one point, I walked up to Goodell and tried to ask how much safer he believed football could actually be made. Instead of answering, he looked away and a burly member of his security detail inserted himself between us and said "No questions."

typical

They did try the no-commentators on a game once and it fully bombed.  But today you could use a lot more available live audiot than they had access to back then.  Especially interesting would be helmet communications on both sides of the ball and calls at the line.  But I do like the radio/tv sync idea.  Not techy enough to have set that up yet.  Dealing with the delay is the bugger for me.

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Have bare breasted cheerleaders, wearing lacy panties, dance on the field in between plays.

Just make certain they're female.

And thank God that Al Gore invented it!

Commentary can definitely improve the broadcast.

 

 

It can also completely detract from it. 

 

 

We already have the male equivalent.  

 

Priceless SJ.

Is that the new x4 term for bad announcers?

 

"Boomer Esiason's an audiot!"

The worst by far is Dan Dierdorf.....audiot #1.

I will forever be thankful for Buck's comment to Aikmen after Aikmen was jabbering about a certain player getting "blasted in the chin".

 

"And you definitely know a lot about getting blasted in the chin". 

Dexter Manly comments on Aikman and chin blasts.

 

That's perfect Shoeless.

The networks are the ones who choose how each game is shown.  I don't think the NFL could dictate to the networks to cut out the yappy announcers who single out praise for the three or four players whose names they bothered to learn that week.   I am not sure if the current TV deal would allow it, but it would be nice if the networks could simulcast their game into two options - the regular game for casual fans and an X's and O's game for the hardcore viewers.  Each network already has multiple sports channels at their disposal (even if CBS has to use TruTV).

Now that AM620 is streaming the broadcast, I take the time to sync the 'radio' stream with the TV.  Of course when I am watching a stream I am stuck with the announcers, but getting the pleasure to listen to Larry and Wayne, even if it means fiddling with the DVR every other commercial or so..

 

IT. IS. SO. WORTH. IT.!!!!!!111 one 111!!!!!

Not allowing content on youtube.

You can breathe easy....From what I hear, once Sunday Ticket isn't exclusive on DTV anymore....Look for Google (youtube) to have the contract on a per game basis. They're going where-ever the money is