Has the Deflategate BS affected your enjoyment of the NFL?

Has Deflategate reduced your enjoyment of the NFL?

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I'll be honest and say that this season was way less enjoyable for me. I tend to prefer seasons where games are closer and the outcomes are more uncertain. I really enjoyed parts of last year and the Cassel season for those reasons.

This year was quite different. I took a lot longer than normal to subscribe to Game Pass (which allows people outside North America to watch most games live online). I just plodded through the season with little interest, comparatively, and wasn't that bothered by the outcome of the AFCCG. In part, that was due to my expectation that the Pats would have lost heavily in the Superbowl, but that wasn't the only reason.

More than that, though, I felt the Deflategate nonsense really coloured how I think of the NFL. It feels tainted and I don't know if I will get it back. I feel resentful.
 
I've been down on the NFL for a while now and DFgate just pushed me closer to that edge.

I hate the NFL and Roger Goodell. I can't figure out if it is more slick or sick. It bothers me that my following the Pats benefits those running the show.

I'll never turn my back on the Pats but the rest of the NFL certainly squeezed less time and attention out of me. I paid for nothing that had an NFL logo on it. I cut way back on NFL Network and watched almost zero NFL outside of actual games.

I feel torn, but I have to find a way to live with myself and cutting back the way I have makes me feel like they aren't completely bending me over.

I can now imagine a time in the distant future when I simply don't give a shit about any of it and walk away. If they keep going the way they are I believe a lot of folks will do the same thing.
 
I knew the NFL was never a bunch of choirboys but the blatant hypocrisy and hatred for Tom and the Patriots has turned me off. I used to be a big NFL fan in addition to rooting for the Pats but now I'm waiting for the day when the hogs get slaughtered, as Mark Cuban predicted. Every proclamation from the NFL offices is met with total disbelief by me, laced with contempt. I haven't bought anything NFL-related in two years, and that includes Patriots stuff.

What used to be a great game is now tainted by petty little men who try and sweep concussion evidence and Manning's* HGH evidence under the rug while going after Brady with virtually no evidence at all. Envy is one thing, but this pathological hatred just makes me sick.

I can see myself walking away as a fan in the future, probably after Brady's retirement. I'm tired of the double standard and the whole mess.
 
ALL of the above.

Cheers, BostonTim
 
BostonTim said:
ALL of the above.

Cheers, BostonTim
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I'll 2nd this.


I'm a Patriots fan through and through but screw Goodell and his lying, corrupt regime, screw the other owners and screw all the rules changers.
 
I have enough tapes, DVDs, books and magazines to satisfy my football cravings.
 
It's not just ballghazi with me, it has been eroding with every horrifically bad handling of every situation under Goodell. Bounty situation, Incognito, dallas and Washington cap situations, pimping michael sam to get diversity, engineering a ref situation in a sb for diversity, inequality of handling pm vs ballghazi though goodell himself equated ballghazi to ped use etc. goodell is merely the reflection of the new school mentality that pervades the sport now. the mentality i sought escape from through the nfl.
bb embodies what i love:quality over kiss assery, problem solving over whining, etc.
i am getting more tired of it all (not the pats, the rest of it).
 
Hawg73 said:
I've been down on the NFL for a while now and DFgate just pushed me closer to that edge.
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This.

I love the sport of football, I really do. But I pretty much hate everything else about the NFL.

Brady & BB retiring will be a tough thing to swallow, but honestly, I'm going to console myself with the fact that I can use it as an excuse to end my addiction to the terrible product called NFL football.
 
Thanks, all. Great answers that I agree with. I remember when I first started following the game in the season after SB XX and enjoying the novelty, "Americana" and so on. Back then, we had highlights on telly and Armed Forces Network on longwave. Defences were allowed to play and you had rabid fans (like the Dawg Pound) and something that was fun.

Slowly but surely, it's become more and more morally corrupt, in terms of the League's attitude to players and fans. The cynicism of the league in ignoring player safety (noting that it's an inherently dangerous game) has become too much. It's *all* about the money now and the absurd possibility of a London team exemplifies this. I can't emphasise enough that every British fan I know thinks it's a shit idea.

Don't get me started on Fantasy Football, the ridiculous ballwashing by the media and the bias towards scoring in the rules.
 
I think the Pats winning the 4th ring along with DG made this season almost an after thought. I am content as a Pats fan with all that Brady and Bill have accomplished and enjoy just watching them try to add to it but I am done with the NFL. I barely watched any games outside of Pats and the little I did see was horrible. The NFL product has really gone down hill the last few seasons. I am tired of the media and their focus off the field instead of on it. ESPN is basically the National Enquirer. As others have said, once Brady and Bill are gone, I will probably be done for good with the NFL.
 
Darth Despot said:
I used to be an NFL fan, now I'm just a Patriots fan.

Haven't watch neutral games all year, haven't watched the various shows about football.

I watch the Pats, hang hear and read PFT. That's it.
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This is how I feel, sans reading PFT.

I don't even watch the Pre-Game shows anymore, but I've been doing that for quite some time now seeing that the EPL is on NBC Sunday mornings. I will say that towards the end of the season, when the playoff picture got interesting, I watched a lot more than I did at the beginning of the season.

Having Sirius Radio, I do listen to some of the National shows so I keep up with how the other teams are doing, but I don't watch nearly as many games as I did since the NFL pulled this crap.

I'm sick of the lies and excuses to get fringe people interested about a product that everybody loves and is the #1 rated TV show on 5 Networks to begin with. It makes me sick
 
the NFL and its minions have driven me to the point where I will not spend a ****ing penny on anything NFL, and as soon as Brady and BB are done so am I.
 
Mazz22 said:
I barely watched any games outside of Pats and the little I did see was horrible.
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And, insult to injury, they come with Collingsworth and Simms and F***ing Nance and the like, so they are both unwatchable and unlistenable. It really makes me gag.

Tomorrow, I'll be watching, sound off, while listening to Harland and Boomer on Westwood one, whether or not I can get them synced up.

Cheers, BostonTim
 
I remember watching Patriot games in the early 90's, with people I knew asking me why I bother because "they'll never win a SB". Some of those people now post on FB (I hear, I'm not on FB) about how much the team means to them.

Those are the fans the NFL wants.
 
Over the past few years the NFL has gone down hill especially in its integrity of the game and its overall disciplinary operations. I have lost the utmost respect for Roger Goodell due to his continued stupidity on continuing the appeal of the DeflateGate. Also, his entire operations is in total question regarding the legitimacy of all Pats SpyGate and DeflateGate pursuit, investigation, and legal actions regarding both.

Lastly, I think it was a HUGE mistake to put the ProBowl the week before the SB to insure that all SB players would not participate for intuitively obvious reasons.
 
The Pro Bowl is the only NFL product Goodell should be involved with. It's a sham, just as he is.
 
They erosion of a once great product has taken its toll. It's just a game to watch anymore to me. I'm no longer emotionally vested. Congrats NFL, you have really fvcked this one up! You will never ever get another cent out of me.
 
I won't be watching the Superbowl tomorrow. It involves staying up until 0300 and therefore means booking the day off. I can't remember the last one I missed, but I can't be bothered to use a day's leave on it. I do hope the Panthers destroy them though.
 
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