Richard Sherman, why ratings are lower for No Fun League

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More concern over players celebrating than the nonstop advertising of alcohol tells you everything you need to know about who the audience is. NFL main concern is older white men and their disdain of young black men who dare show any personality or swag. Go listen to some sports radio and how MAD these white people get about even the most mundane shyt. Even if it's positive stuff. I'm in Michigan and every time DeAndre Levy (who is dealing with injuries) is brought up there's this weird intense anger that he's...being paid but not playing, and how he needs to shut up and stop...donating to charities, writing articles about the NFL's terrible player safety procedures, etc. Levy recently donated thousands of dollars to ensure rape kits in Detroit don't get destroyed. If you look up the story on Detroit sites you'll see nonstop negative comments.

"Shut up and entertain me, ******" is the message.
 
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"Because the league isn't fun anymore," Sherman said. "Every other league, you see the players have a good time. It's a game. This isn't politics. This isn't justice. This is entertainment. And they're no longer allowing the players to entertain. They're no longer allowing the players to show any kind of personality, any kind of uniqueness, any individuality. Because they want to control the product. They want to control the messaging, etc., etc.

"They say we're trying to influence kids, and that's their biggest thing. That's their biggest ploy is you don't want to be a bad influence to kids. You don't want to be a bad role model. And I can agree with that. But in the same breath, you can't say Budweiser is the official sponsor of the NFL, and we're trying to influence kids. So there's a ton of hypocrisy, but it doesn't matter because we don't control it."




He has a point :manny:
i don't know how.... but as a 49ers fan... sherm is one of my favorite players in the league :mjcry:
 

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The NFL was never fun but the stuff about controlling the messaging is true. NFL got too corporate in the digital age. Calling shyt the The Shield :deadrose:

Saturation
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nah you must be young breh

shyt was fukking amazing when they was taking people's head off, dancing on the way to the end zone, pulling out sharpies and signing footballs, taking off helmets and talking shyt in the camera, and going to all out WAR


now we get 150 flags and hand the ball to the ref when you score and ouch you hit me too hard penalties
 

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The NFL was never fun
yes it was.

You could do whatever you wanted after a TD....if it last too long or was too elaborate then you got a penalty for excessive celebration.

You could talk trash to another player without refs feeling like they need to step in and "tame you" :mjpls:

Much less throw a flag for using the "n" word.

Deion Sanders high stepping would be a penalty nowadays, and probably a called back TD since he starts it before crossing the goaline.

Michael Irvin doing his 1st down thing every time would prob be a taunting penalty now.

They need to be more harsh on what these guys do OFF the field than on.
 

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nikkas laughed at Cuban when he said the NBA would pass them :ohhh: but the CaC told no lies :manny: I hope the Shield get buried in the cesspool of mediocrity that it is :francis:

Im pretty sure Cuban never said the NBA would pass the NFL.

No one would say such a thing
 
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