Article: 10 things the NFL needs to change

[Scouse Patriot]

Amateurs.

 

[Calciumee]

The Who, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd & Sex Pistols all say Wha?

And The Kinks think about what could of been

 

[Scouse Patriot]

The Dave Clark Five was another although the Tottenham Sound was average compared to Merseybeat.

*Note to anal retentives, these comments are purely facetious and a bit of "banter" with southern Brits.

 

[Calciumee]

The Dave Clark Five was another although the Tottenham Sound was average compared to Merseybeat.

*Note to anal retentives, these comments are purely facetious and a bit of "banter" with southern Brits.

I rather like The Dave Clark Five, even though Dave Clark looks really weird now!

 

[captain stone]

That is indeed a scary picture.

I liked the DC5, esp. their big drum sound. It seemed that in the early days of Rock, drummimg mostly just kept time. Then came Keith Moon & the DC5, and other drummers - Charlie Watts, Ringo Starr, Nick Mason etc. - became more experimental. The drugs might've helped too.

 

[Calciumee]

That is indeed a scary picture.

I liked the DC5, esp. their big drum sound. It seemed that in the early days of Rock, drummimg mostly just kept time. Then came Keith Moon & the DC5, and other drummers - Charlie Watts, Ringo Starr, Nick Mason etc. - became more experimental. The drugs might've helped too.

In the early rock days, that is all it was. As most bands were R'n'B, the drums were just the rhythm and didn't really do much else

 

[TrueBeliever]

I rather like The Dave Clark Five, even though Dave Clark looks really weird now!

Ugh! He looks like Leona Helmsley and Stefano from "Days of Our Lives" had a baby.

 

[vyrago]

I rather like The Dave Clark Five, even though Dave Clark looks really weird now!

Yikes! It certainly does not make me feel glad all over.

 

[Wolfpack]

1. The annual Brett Favre speculation - This is a media issue and not a league issue. The stupid mediot that wrote this piece is blaming the league for something when he should be blaming his colleagues. And ironically, by writing about Brett Favre, he is violating the very rule he wants to see enacted.

2. Thursday Night Football - Leave it (or expand it). The more football I get to see, the better.

3. Throwback uniforms - Eh, I don't care one way or another. But they are a money-maker for the league, so they are here to stay.

4. Regular season games overseas - I don't like them but, like throwback uniforms, they are a money-maker for the league, so they are here to stay.

5. Charging regular season prices for pre-season games - Nobody forces fans to buy tickets. If they are too expensive, feel free to cancel your season ticket account.

6. Flyovers - Is this really a problem worth addressing?

7. Warren Sapp on the NFLN - I agree with the writer; Many, many accounts say Warren Sapp is one of the biggest jerks you will ever meet. I get sick of seeing everyone kiss his behind on PTI or NFLN, and I wouldn't mind seeing him go away.

8. "Commitment to Excellense" - Not exactly a league problem if the Raiders want to have a little motto, no matter how inaccurate it is

9. Coaches' haltime interviews - It's a necessary stupidity. The league wants to keep the networks happy and the networks want their little 10 second interviews, so let 'em have 'em.

10. Regular season OT rules - This was never a problem despite how much mediots tried to make it out to be one. They should have just left the OT rules alone.

 

[Wolfpack]

Agreed. It's at a point now where you expect your channel guide to say "3 hours of commercials occasionally interrupted by NFL Football."

Every game has a set number of commercial breaks. If a team goes on a long drive, and say they go 7:00 of game time without a commercial, the network needs to catch up. That's why you'll have TD-commercial-kickoff-commercial. It's either keep it like that, or assign arbitrary breaks in the middle of drives, which I don't think people would support.

 

[resdubwhite]

The Who, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd & Sex Pistols all say Wha?

OT I know.

But
As a Floyd and pistols fan I will say comparing these bands to the beatles is like comparing beef jerky to striploin steak.

Actually
Comparing anyone to the beatles is pretty pointless.

 

[TrueBeliever]

Actually
Comparing anyone to the beatles is pretty pointless.

Remember in the '90s when people were talking about Oasis being the next Beatles?

 

[Calciumee]

Remember in the '90s when people were talking about Oasis being the next Beatles?

The nest thing they did was split up

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

 

[jmt57]

1.) The Annual Brett Favre Speculation
Clark needs to judge his fellow members of the media, not the NFL on this topic - though I agree, it has become a worn out story.

2.) Thursday Night Football
I don't mind it at all. Maybe they can incorporate the bye week with TNF, so the teams playing enter the game with a similar amount (10 or 11 days) of time off entering the game. On a similar vein, no team should have to have three straight road games, and teams playing a MNF game should not have to play on the road the following week.

3.) Throwback Uniforms
It does seem like it's getting to be a bit much, though that was probably due in part to the 50th anniversary of the AFL last year. Limit it to no more than once a year; any more than that and it's overkill and no longer special.

4.) Regular-Season Games Overseas
Not a real fan of it but I don't see the harm in one game a year. That works out to each team doing it once every 16 years, and losing a home game once every 32 years; that's not a big deal.

5.) Regular-Season Prices for Preseason Games
As a fan I agree, change that. But I have yet to hear a suggestion on how the owners can make up for that lost revenue.

6.) Flyovers
Similar to throwbacks, they're becoming so common that they are no longer as special as they should be.

7.) Warren Sapp on the NFL Network
Not a big fan of Sapp as an analyst, but that's about the last thing I would complain about and demand to have changed.

8.) Commitment to Excellence
It may seem like a very inaccurate description, but similar to #1, blame the media who seem to feel a need to mention it or show it in every game.

9.) Coaches Halftime Interviews
Agreed, get rid of them, they're useless to us as fans, and coaches shouldn't have to waste their time in the middle of a game being interviewed.

10.) Regular-Season OT Rules
Not crazy about the new rules, but I disliked the old OT rules even more. This one's already been debated to death, no point in beating a dead horse.

 

[italian pat patriot]

i agree on some points...expecially on number 1