Roger Goodell’s NFL daring fans to live without football

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See? That wasnt so difficult, now, was it?

The NFL and NBC sold Saturday nights Dolphins-Chiefs playoff game beyond a ransom wall thus millions who otherwise would have watched what was anticipated as the weekends most attractive game chose to live without it.

And thats the smug ne TV business model of the NFL and MLB condition devoted viewers to live without. Brilliant strategy, no? As if greed is undefeated, as if greed doesnt kill, as if, to borrow from Wall St., pigs dont get slaughtered.

Or is the public unaware that the NFL expects us to finance its removal of what no business can thrive without: its most reliably dedicated customers.

As reader Bruce Korman succinctly put it, On a day when half the country was snowed in this game had it been seen over the air would have been a ratings monster.

And so what wouldve been an all-in game was played to a minimized TV audience in dangerous Arctic night conditions for both players and paying spectators as per the noble leadership of NFL Treasurer Roger Goodell, whose sense of sarcastic humor includes claims that player safety is a top priority, and the warm and fuzzy, Its all about our fans.

Roger_Goodell_s_NFL_daring_fans_to_live_without_football 5Some 23 million reportedly watched Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs beat the Dolphins last Saturday on streaming-only Peacock, while 38 million watched the NBC broadcast of Lions-Rams on Sunday. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConThis game was designed for maximum money $110 million from NBC/Peacock in exchange for a papering over the view with one-night stand money.

So, while Rams-Lions, Sunday night, according to NBC, peaked at more than 38 million viewers, NBC again insulted the public with transparent, easily dismissed, fools fodder propaganda claiming that a streaming/pay-walled record-breaking 23 million watched Miami-KC, an inflated total as greater Miami and Kansas City were able to watch on over-the-air TV.

But even if it were 23 million, based on NBCs numbers, 15 million more watched Rams-Lions on over-the-air TV than NBCs record-breaking Peacock game, a shallow record as no NFL playoff game had ever been sold exclusively to a pay-per-view operation. Heck, had it 10 million fewer buys it would have been, as NBC brayed, The Biggest Live-Streamed Event in U.S. History.

Roger_Goodell_s_NFL_daring_fans_to_live_without_football 5Peacock landed itself 2.8 million new subscribers ahead of its exclusive NFL playoff game stream.As for Goodell, he claimed he was thrilled with the pay-per-view numbers, again and predictably disingenuous. He was thrilled Proud as a Peacock to have reduced the audience to an NFL playoff game by many millions of those who would have watched?

NBC, from Mike Tirico to its Sunday night pregame crew, performed triple-lutzes to sell this held-for-ransom game while sacrificing their credibility.

College hoops suffering from delay of game

College basketball, for some unfathomable reason, now seems committed to stopping games and killing action as a matter of design.

Saturdays San Diego St.-Utah on CBS, had its plug pulled so the refs could examine a TV monitor to determine if a Utah player had intentionally flopped.

Given that there was no call, play on! Why stop playing to examine maybe? If he flopped, he did so at his own peril and his teams get-back-on-defense risk. Just play on, for crying out loud!

Saturday, on Fox, St. Johns and Creighton played a close, high-energy game until 57 seconds remained. Then it was time to coach per possession, those 57 seconds took eight minutes to complete.

So NFL games, this past weekend, began with solemn tributes to the memory and martyrdom of Martin Luther King, who was derided by born-and-bred racists as a n—-r.

Then it was now back to Treasurer Goodells honoring vulgar, N-word spewing artists for America to enjoy during Super Bowl halftime shows.

Roger_Goodell_s_NFL_daring_fans_to_live_without_football 5NFL commissioner Roger Goodell Getty ImagesNot that CBS, this seasons Super Bowl network will report it race-themed essayist and NFL studio host James Brown will abandon the courage of his convictions or pandering Goodell will note, but this years headliner, Usher, checks all the backwards sexual and racial boxes in just one song, Nice and Slow.

Care to read the lyrics aloud, Roger? J.B.? No? Why? Below you and yours but perfect for us and ours?

But as soulful NFL end zones remind us, End Racism.

Announcers word salads are unpalatable

Im starting to get the hang of it: You replace the plain, simple and instantly useful with the vague, wordy and worthless, thus:

In just the first quarter of Saturdays Texans-Browns, NBCs Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge said the Browns scored a TD because they were able to avoid negative yardage, Ran the ball downhill and dialed up a long pass play. But Houston soon struck back with a positive gain.

During Eagles-Bucs on ESPN/ABC, Troy Aikman, at approximately $93 million over five years, observed that Bucs RB Rachaad White was able to pick up positive yards and move the chains.

Roger_Goodell_s_NFL_daring_fans_to_live_without_football 5Troy Aikman is one of many modern-day sports announcers who are masters at word salad. APOf course, on an obvious scramble by Dallas QB Dak Prescott, Foxs Greg Olsen, during a replay of the self-evident had to add that Prescott used his legs.

Even reliable Sean McDonough has been afflicted. Saturday, during ESPNs Rangers-Capitals he noted that Washington was skating downhill.

Week in Review:

Product Placement of the Week: During the U.S.-Sweden Under-18 womens game as seen on the NHL Network, a commercial appeared for treatment of erectile dysfunction.

Schadenfreude Shot of the Week: Foxs cut to a disgusted Jerry Jones during the Packers road humiliation of the Cowboys.

Bad Timing of the Week: The D.C.-based Caps and Wizards are looking to relocate to nearby Alexandria, Va. for several reasons, not the least of which is attendance-discouraging D.C. street crime.

Last week the Wizards released point guard Ryan Rollins, making a guaranteed $1.7 million, after he was charged with repeatedly stealing from a Target store in Alexandria.

Roger_Goodell_s_NFL_daring_fans_to_live_without_football 5Ryan Rollins NBAE via Getty ImagesAnalysis of the Week: Sunday during Georgetown-UConn on Fox, Donny Marshall, after a three-on-one up-court charge by the Huskies led to a 3-point shot: Thats the modern-day fast break.

Stat of the Week: In blowing a 16-point lead at home to lose to the Heat, Monday, the Nets missed 43 of 55 3-point heaves. In a one-point loss that many 3s limited the Nets free throws to 16 (the Heat took 25).

But unlike that recent home loss to the Bucks, the Nets at the very least, seemed somewhat interested in winning. Say, is it possible to be both a basketball fan and a paying Nets fan?

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