Why is the NFL such a cry baby league?

Seriosuly. So many jealousies like desperate housewives. Sad to see so much hate amongst the fraternity. With Ray Lewis' crap and Tynes Twitter - I really don't see this much in the NBA or MLB. Last year there was a pitcher that got caught doctoring he ball, roids, etc but the fraternity doesn't insult or pile on each other as much. Then the media goes mad over an unsubstantiated story like this in the NFL and becomes the lead story when nothing has been proved. The NFL also adds fuel to the Fire by not clarifying. Sad to see so much hate within the sport itself.

Bill Polian, Jim Irsay, and Peyton Manning.

English sport is far worse. Manchester United have won 13 pf 22 Premier League titles since the new format was introduced...and only five teams have that honour despite there being 92 professional clubs in the UK.

You should hear some of the resentment towards those top teams, especially Manchester United, over here!

UK_Pat37 said:

English sport is far worse. Manchester United have won 13 pf 22 Premier League titles since the new format was introduced...and only five teams have that honour despite there being 92 professional clubs in the UK.

You should hear some of the resentment towards those top teams, especially Manchester United, over here!

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Let's be honest here @UK_Pat37, I'm a Chelsea fan and have been since forever. It is appreciably easier to dominate a league when your cheque book is significantly bigger than 90% of the competition.

Teams that dominate in salary cap leagues are far more impressive to me.

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Let's be honest here @UK_Pat37, I'm a Chelsea fan and have been since forever. It is appreciably easier to dominate a league when your cheque book is significantly bigger than 90% of the competition.

Teams that dominant in salary cap leagues are far more impressive to me.

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It's what infuriates me about the Premier League and why I stick to supporting my lower league local team. I actually find lower league football more entertaining at times.

I still enjoy watching the Premier League but I just can't stand that we can easily predict what is going to happen so often. We get the occassional nice surprise (i.e. Southampton this year) but, whilst they may solidify top four, they won't win it.

It's a shame...and what drew me to the NFL more and more as I grew up. There are of course teams that have dominated the NFL like the EPL, but as you said it is much more of an achievement and much more admirable.

First thing this morning on Good Morning America the entire panel (about 6or 7) were discussing this story. Robin Roberts (an ex-collegiate athlete), to her credit, claimed it was a ridiculous accusation. But Michael Strahan was absolutely giddy about it being very possibly true. He even was holding 2 footballs, one presumingly deflated, to illustrate the advantage in throwing the latter. Puke time...

UK_Pat37 said:

It's what infuriates me about the Premier League and why I stick to supporting my lower league local team. I actually find lower league football more entertaining at times.

I still enjoy watching the Premier League but I just can't stand that we can easily predict what is going to happen so often. We get the occassional nice surprise (i.e. Southampton this year) but, whilst they may solidify top four, they won't win it.

It's a shame...and what drew me to the NFL more and more as I grew up. There are of course teams that have dominated the NFL like the EPL, but as you said it is much more of an achievement and much more admirable.

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Let's hope Southampton goes on with it this season. They're breaking up the monotony of the top 4!

I'm going to put on my psychology hat (which I clearly stole from some egg head), and say it's related to the bully mentality. Football is not just an extremely physical sport, but one where the culture of how to win is based on the idea of imposing your will on the opponent. Skill, tactics, etc go right out the window if one team is simply bullying the other through tough, physical play.

For that reason, players amp themselves up before a game. They look in the mirror and know that the only way they're going to win is to be tougher, meaner, and WANT it more than the other guys. They yell at themselves to be that guy, they psyche themselves into believing that they have what it takes to destroy their opponent.

Then they get embarrassed 45-7.

Now they have to come down from that high. It's not just humble pie, it's a whole god damn humble buffet (a humbuffet, if you will), and they have two choices: Except it as part of the whole sporting experience, or lose their minds and look for whatever convenient excuse they can find (cheating, unsportsmanlike formations, bad refs, league conspiracies) that can convince them that they WERE tougher, meaner, and wanted it more. They just got screwed by something out of their control.

envy

lost in the entire conversation is if the pats balls were deflated, how did it cause Luck to manage to have the worst game of his career and the colts are staring at paying this guy 25M/yr........the justification is that it is someone elses fault that they suck so bad

How similar does this sound: In the Super League (Rugby League competition in England) the Leeds Rhinos go through patches in the season where the media question whether they're "done" and if they're getting "too old" then they go on to win the Grand final at the end of it all. There's always people moaning about how the refs help them out, the league helps them etc etc.

That is in a league with a salary cap of £1.65m (so what, under $3m?)

In sport, successful teams get hated on no matter what. It's just the nature of the beast, people can't take sustained success so have to start pointing fingers and making accusations because surely it can't all be legit blah blah blah.

Yeah, some people really need to mellow out and have their balls deflated.

Well, it's such a crybaby league because there aren't that many games and there are huge, huge egos in play. Think about it. Virtually all football players have been worshiped and coddled since high school. They have very large, very fragile egos. When something doesn't go their way, they freak out and start crying.

It's not the NFL, it's society as a whole. A lot of crying about stupid $h!t. A lot of whining and complaining.