"the best run league in sports"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: Like I said earlier, the first one was more than a bit too sloppy to be tabbed as "excellent" even if the back and forth nature of it made it interesting at times (particularly early on).

Yeah, the high-scoring, lead changes, numerous comebacks and momentum switches caught my attention a little. Briefly. Sort of.

I love our game, too, but if you deny that Baltimore-Denver wasn't wildly entertaining and a fantastic matchup... well, if perfect execution is your thing*, you could always watch bowling.

*Please do keep in mind that they were playing in sub-freezing (at times, sub-zero) temperatures and running slightly more complicated schemes/making marginally more intricate reads/on-the-fly adjustments than in, say, the Ice Bowl days.

[Ceetar]

I haven't even turned on any of the playoffs. I feel downright unamerican. I'm probably not going to drink the Bud Black Crown they're going to advertise at the Super bowl either.

[Frayed Knot]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Like I said earlier, the first one was more than a bit too sloppy to be tabbed as "excellent" even if the back and forth nature of it made it interesting at times (particularly early on). Yeah, the high-scoring, lead changes, numerous comebacks and momentum switches caught my attention a little. Briefly. Sort of. I love our game, too, but if you deny that Baltimore-Denver wasn't wildly entertaining and a fantastic matchup... well, if perfect execution is your thing*, you could always watch bowling.

Sure it was fun to watch*, I was just trying to make a distinction between a game being exciting automatically making it one that was well-played.

Besides, my purpose here (or of this thread) isn't to knock the sport of football itself. Sure, the game and the NFL's presentation of it drives me nuts at times, but I am trying to keep this to just a comparison between the media treatment of it as compared to baseball. As an example, only one of this year's final four teams (Atlanta) wasn't also in last year's N/AFC championship games. Nothing wrong with that but if this were to happen in baseball it would be dismissed by most mediots as not just a coincidence or a sign of strong teams bouncing back but of a fundamental flaw in the sport and a reason for for not paying attention. Here not only are we not going to hear that but it'll be viewed as a good thing (REMATCHES!!!!) while the salary cap they all love and claim is a guard against exactly that sort of thing will go ignored.




* And, again, it was exciting when it wasn't being delayed for one reason or another. That match was up over 3-1/2 hours before they even got into OT and, when that happens in a timed game, every added minute is, by definition, a minute when something is NOT happening.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Best run league in the world.

[ashie62]

Ceetar wrote: I haven't even turned on any of the playoffs. I feel downright unamerican. I'm probably not going to drink the Bud Black Crown they're going to advertise at the Super bowl either.

Just decrease the amount of blood in your alcohol stream...

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

A power outage in its premier event! Yikes!

[stevejrogers]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: A power outage in its premier event! Yikes!

To be fair, rain and snow have delayed World Series games, some years for a couple of days.

Hell Game 6 got followed by a rain out!

[Edgy MD]

Securing enough power to present your show at an indoor stadium and guaranteeing clement weather at an outdoor one seem like two different expectations.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That's what I was thinking. Baseball can't control the weather. Maintaining power is a whole other ballgame.

[Frayed Knot]

I liked all the close-up shots during the blackout of a befuddled Roger Goodell looking helpless to deal with the situation.
Oh wait, this wasn't baseball & Selig, it's the NFL so that turned out to be the one time when the cameras were seemingly unable to find the commish.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: I liked all the close-up shots during the blackout of a befuddled Roger Goodell looking helpless to deal with the situation. Oh wait, this wasn't baseball & Selig, it's the NFL so that turned out to be the one time when the cameras were seemingly unable to find the commish.

The cameras were unable to find much of anything. You got the same angle of the lights, little of the crowd and only the players in direct view. I guess they didn't have much access to the other cameras? or were just completely befuddled on what to do.

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: I liked all the close-up shots during the blackout of a befuddled Roger Goodell looking helpless to deal with the situation. Oh wait, this wasn't baseball & Selig, it's the NFL so that turned out to be the one time when the cameras were seemingly unable to find the commish.

I bet this is true too, I can't remember one shot of him during the whole debacle.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I liked all the close-up shots during the blackout of a befuddled Roger Goodell looking helpless to deal with the situation. Oh wait, this wasn't baseball & Selig, it's the NFL so that turned out to be the one time when the cameras were seemingly unable to find the commish. I bet this is true too, I can't remember one shot of him during the whole debacle.

And while it's certainly possible that Goodell was 'below decks' somewhere at the time and truly unable to be on camera, I think it's much more probable that the network, being wary of doing anything that could possibly be construed as offensive towards 'The Shield', simply chose not to show him at a time that wasn't going to paint him in the best light.