Are you done with the NFL? (Immediate reaction)

if the suspension doesnt get reduced...then yea im done with this garbage.

brady should stop talking to the media and when the day comes when he's inducted to the HOF he shouldn't attend. a giant FU to this corrupt league.

Deus Irae said:

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NFL Football is nothing but time wasted in front of a television. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's unimportant in the scheme of things. There are plenty of other ways to spend your time.

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Sounds like you're waxing philosophical....I'm into my sixth decade. As I've lived I've come to grips with some basic facts of life particular to me. I have an addictive personality. I drank alcohol in various amounts until I was in my forties. I used marijuana when I was in college at BU and kept it up until I was 30 or so. I used coke and alcohol socially the entire '80's along with just about everybody in my wide social circle. That includes the people I worked with, cops, lawyers, politicians, most of my music friends, my artist friends...hell, it was as normal as lighting up a 'Boro in the a.m.(something else I was addicted to).

Fortunately, and I am a firm believer in this, I reached that point in MY life where I had an epiphany in my mid 40's. I quit drinking recreationally and rarely have even a taste, perhaps on a special occasion, a beer. I cold turkeyed the butts and haven't smoked anything of any origin in 15 years.

I played basketball through college and into state leagues into my thirties. I was a rabid NBA fan. Kicked that habit when Detroit and the Nasty Boys arrived. I still follow the Sox but I'm not hooked on them like I was when I was a green kid. I liked women with bad habits and high maintenance issues. I have a cat now.

Throughout all these travails, the one thing I have been completely and utterly owned by is my passion for the NFL. Since 1960 I have been the exact same nut you all have come to know here the past decade and a half. It's the only addiction I have never come to face....until now. The truth is, I do not want to stop being a fan. I want to die a hopeless screaming basket case homer for MY Patriots...but Deus...you are 100% right. I could and should be devoting my time helping others less fortunate than I, helping others that need some support in this raging river we call life. I look at this league and these people who stand behind it today and I think...looks like time to finally cold turkey THIS addiction too.

I'll give it another season (spoken like any true junkie) but if these corporate criminals keep on this path and these "gates" and the other farcical devices dreamt up by these corporate boobs continue unchanged, I'm out.

Boycott all NFL sponsors until Goodell is fired.

As much as I love the game and it's history, I'm more than likely going to walk away. I can certainly find a better use for my time.

If people start canceling NFL cable packages and start boycotting NFL sponsors and letting these companies know that we're not coming back until Goodell is gone, the owners will have to respond.

The idea of starting a site that lists NFL sponsors to boycott is a good one.

I love football too much to be done, but what they did was create a jaded fan who is going to make a big deal out of ANY infraction that doesn't involve the patriots going forward.

I honestly didn't care about the Rice fiasco whatsoever but the new me will push for lifetime bans. Cowboys and Seahawks need to lose picks as far as I'm concerned. The name of the Redskins which didn't bother me does now.

YOUGOTMOSSED said:

If people start canceling NFL cable packages and start boycotting NFL sponsors and letting these companies know that we're not coming back until Goodell is gone, the owners will have to respond.

The idea of starting a site that lists NFL sponsors to boycott is a good one.

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While we're at it, we may also want to create a list of sponsors for espn and all the other crappy sports media outlets that pushed this narrative.

New England is a very large market. If we band together and make enough noise, they will have to listen. It has to be made clear that Goodell and his cronies have to go.

YOUGOTMOSSED said:

While we're at it, we may also want to create a list of sponsors for espn and all the other crappy sports media outlets that pushed this narrative.

New England is a very large market. If we band together and make enough noise, they will have to listen. It has to be made clear that Goodell and his cronies have to go.

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Verizon, Anheuser-Busch and Visa are major sponsors. Insurance companies GEICO and State (snake) Farm are notable. Papa Johns is pretty well know (let's face it, their pizza sucks anyway and you should buy from a local company regardless of Goodell/NFL/Manning).

There's already some footprint in place from the feminists who were calling for a boycott for the Rice fiasco.

YOUGOTMOSSED said:

Verizon, Anheuser-Busch and Visa are major sponsors. Insurance companies GEICO and State (snake) Farm are notable. Papa Johns is pretty well know (let's face it, their pizza sucks anyway and you should buy from a local company regardless of Goodell/NFL/Manning).

There's already some footprint in place from the feminists who were calling for a boycott for the Rice fiasco.

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Radisson Hotels,Nike, Procter & Gamble, GM, McDonalds, Pepsi, Bose, FedEx, Marriot, Campbells.

No, im not done, i love this sport, maybe at some point if this **** happens every year i will see the games in mute and i will never visit the sites about nfl, just tired of the nfl going into wwe circus direction.

I'm guessing that while some of us are on the fence, anyone who really wished to be finished with the NFL surely wouldn't be responding on an internet team forum during the offseason.