Thank you, Goodell!

[Still Brooklyn]

The NFL is making changes to help the flow of the game and reduce unnecessary stoppage.

Goodell annouced today that the "TD-commercial-kickoff-commercial" plan is dead. There will now be a structured advertising plan for NFL broadcast partners.

Four scheduled breaks, lasting no longer than 2 minutes, per quarter (most likely between possessions) and they are allowed to break during timeouts, injuries, and reviews with a split screen view of the stadium broadcast.

It's about ****ing time!

Four is still a lot, but the TD-commercial-KO-commercial thing was beyond annoying.

[@bonafidebanter]

Working with FOX, I've been waiting on this for the longest. You're right, it's about damn time.

[Shocker]

This such good news, there were WAY to many commercials last few years.

[CarolinaSamurai]

About time only took a dip in the ratings to do it 

[Jangler]

Just the right amount of time for 5 guys and one pissser

[countryboi]

I dont know if i have ever seen a fan thank Goodell for anything. everything he does is normally like a kick in the nuts

[Catufb85]

The No Fun League is also apparently developing a celebration video explaining how players can celebrate.  Man I miss the days when guys like Smitty, TO, Chad Johnson, etc. were celebrating.  Coming up with something new every weekend.  People waited in anticipation of "whats he going to do next".

 

[Johnny Rockets]

Heard Goodell on Mike and Mike this morning talking about this. I applaud the NFL for realizing this was issue and it's not easy to make a change like this since less commercials = less dollars. Will be a better product for viewers at home and at the stadium. 

Hard to find a balance between your customers (fans) and keeping your sponsors happy especially when you are doing away with the in game promos also (Joe Buck saying..."Tune in to Fox next Monday to watch the new episode of _____ ").  

 

[h0llywood]

The commercials become more noticeable if you ever tried to watch a recorded game. You spend more time skipping past the commercials than actually watching game footage.

[Johnny Rockets]

8 minutes ago, h0llywood said:

The commercials become more noticeable if you ever tried to watch a recorded game. You spend more time skipping past the commercials than actually watching game footage.

The Wall Street Journal did analysis on this a few years back. It was something like:

10-11 mins of game action

17 mins of repay (more than game action)

75 mins of coaches, players, walking around, huddling, etc.

1 hour of commercials (20 breaks, 100 ads)

It's remarkable the NFL is so popular if you look at nothing other than that list.  

 

[shaqattaq]

2 hours ago, h0llywood said:

The commercials become more noticeable if you ever tried to watch a recorded game. You spend more time skipping past the commercials than actually watching game footage.

I record every game and give it a 20-30 minute head start. I usually catch up by halftime, but have to pause more often during the second half as my piss breaks become more frequent.

[KillerKat]

Only good thing Goodell has done