Anyone else's interest for NFL football dwindling?

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

22 minutes ago, frash.exe said:

4. That fuging cocksucking Broncos linebacker that singlehandedly destroyed the entire 2015 Panthers season, I can't even say his name. Every time he pops up in an old spice commercial I want to karate kick the television.

that madden commercial puts me in a foul mood every time i see it

[PantherGuy]

3 hours ago, Cracka McNasty said:

For real though, that's something that has changed with me recently too. I remember watching all those "Jacked up" segments on the MNF countdown and how awesome I used to think it was. Watch one now on youtube. Half those hits you KNOW caused concussions and brain damage. Instead of getting hyped up, I just cringe seeing these guys do that to themselves. I'll always cheer for a great clean hard tackle (see Luke in the super bowl on Thomas), but the head hunting and big hits I see these days have me wincing. I don't really look at the football players as numbers anymore, I see them more as human beings which sounds really lame I know, I swear I'm not a hippy, but I am just concerned for them now. 

Watching Cam get blasted and having the refs do nothing hurt to watch. It was like "guys, do something, they're literally killing him out there." It was the same feeling I got with the Saints - Vikings game a few years back, accept with Cam it was more personal because he is our QB.  

Love your whole post. I used to watch those hardest hits reels too. Now I don't even think about it. I'm starting to see football players as humans too. Cam is just about the toughest QB I've ever seen. But that Denver game was just hard to watch. I don't think anybody can take that punishment and not be worse off for it. It was brutal. I find it impossible to care about the NFL at large anymore. 

[KB_fan]

4 hours ago, Cracka McNasty said:

Commercials suck and are annoying

Blame Peyton Manning!  If I never see his face again it will be too soon.  How many Peyton commercials are there per game?!!!  Gracious me.

[Totally agree with all you wrote, just don't feel like really commenting.  It's been a tough week.]

[raleigh-panther]

Until the day I die, I will believe that Super Bowl was fixed

nfl had a narrative and if the panthers weren't perfect they were not going to win

on top of it opening day target practice on Newton's head 

I have been watching more college less pro

[PantherGuy]

1 hour ago, Cracka McNasty said:

I've been playing Overwatch every Sunday, Monday, and Thursday nights while the games are on. Infinitely more fun.

Great game, would recommend. 

Been doing the same, with Battlefield 4 on PC. Found an awesome pistols only, smallish server. Lots of fun.

[RickyManningJr]

5 hours ago, Cracka McNasty said:

I'm not talking about the Panthers. I've watched every game this season, as hard as they were to watch at times. I'm talking about the prime time games, and other games around the NFL. In years past I would always watch the Sunday and Monday night match-ups because it was entertaining and interesting. Even when I wasn't actively watching it I would put the game on in the background as I did other things. 

This year, other than Opening night with the Panthers, I haven't watched any prime time game at all. There has been no interest to watch anything. Maybe it's because I cut the cord last year, but the interest to watch these games just isn't there for me anymore. 

It feels oversaturated and unnecessary to have Thursday night games every week. For a league "so concerned about player safety", they really aren't doing jack poo. They are still marching the players out on limited rest every week without allowing bodies to heal. they still aren't doing enough to help with concussions. They are constantly reacting instead of being proactive. 

And the hypocrisy and inconsistency EVERYWHERE.

• Player punishments are ridiculous and inconsistent. Smoke weed? Suspended 10 games. Beat your fiance? 2 games - Wait, hold on, the public is mad, make it a year. Has the storm died down? OK, cool, the next guy gets one game because he's only a kicker... 
• This year guys can't even celebrate in the endzone? Like, OK, I get that the dunk can bend the goalpost and cause the game to be delayed until it's fixed. I can understand not having props because it's kind of distracting and can be excessive. But no dancing? What is the NFL, the town from Footloose? AB can't do three pumps when the cheerleaders are 20 yards away LITERALLY SHAKING THEIR ASSES ALL GAME, but that's alright? I'm not seeing the line of thought on this one. It makes no sense to me at all.
• "Player safety is so important, we care about our players". Cam proceeds to get assaulted on opening night, one flag thrown and it is offset because he threw the ball away to try and protect himself because the refs weren't... Oh and OBJ last year on Norman... Jesus Christ how was he not thrown out of the game? He literally went for Norman's head blatantly. He should have been gone for Multiple games.
• To tie the last two points together, Jimmy Graham was fined more for dunking the ball on a goalpost a few seasons ago, than Vontaze Burfict was when he tried to break the legs of both Cam Newton and Greg Olsen. Really concerned for that player safety there Roger. Especially when you knowingly downplayed the long-term and lasting effects concussions have on the players. Asshole.
• The referees are complete and utter poo these days. Am I wrong in this point or does it seem like Refs the past few years has been god awful and only gotten worse? They need full time refs. The guys they put out there are so inconsistent it's infuriating. What is a penalty one week, is completely allowed by another crew the next. It really feels like the refs are controlling the outcomes of games these days and it's making the NFL feel rigged. 
• To go along with the last point, what the fug is a catch these days? What the fug are the rules? Why are they changing so much year in and year out without thinking ahead? "Hey, let's move the Kickoff up so we get more touchbacks". "Hey, let's make the starting point on touchbacks the 25 instead of the 20, teams won't try mortar kicks, hurr durr". "Let's make the rules for defining a catch as convoluted as possible because fug you." 
• Commercials suck and are annoying. I get that they are needed, but there weren't as many commercials in years past as there are now. I remember when the NFL bumped the start of later day games from 4 to 4:30 "to allow less overlapping of the games" but all they did was insert more commercials and jack up game run times. Now they have the same problem because of how long they take for commercial breaks. poo's weak.
• This poo. They've come for our memes. 

There's plenty more, I just don't have the desire to rant about anymore. But am I alone in feeling this way? Has the NFL reached the oversaturation point for you guys as well or am I in the minority here?

My interest has been dwindling for a while but I am addicted.  I feel like it is a giant soap opera and I hear fat women at work talking about it in the office.  This poo should be way too boring for fat old women to care about because it should be all about football.  No more hitting, no more two a days the media is annoying.  Fantasy ***** ball.  It all is starting to suck for a lot of reasons.