the XFL has to play straight normal football and leave that gimmick shit where they fight over the ball to receive or whatever out of it.
the NFL has fucked around way too much the last few years with just changing things for the sake of changing them. when you have NFC teams playing games shown on the AFC CBS, that's horseshit. Thursday night games were originally played only in the 2nd half of the season, yeah ok whatever. doing it every single week with this obnoxious Color Rush, fuck that. as it was, you have games on Sunday, Monday, and Thursday -- the NFL this year decided instead of running 2 games at a time in the playoffs 2 and 2 from each conference specifically, to break that off into playing on Saturday as well. Saturday should only be for the preaseason. the change that pisses me off the most is playing the Pro Bowl BEFORE the Super Bowl. obviously the 2 teams playing in the Super Bowl are the best in the league, they're going to have a lot of Pro Bowl selections. you play the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl, they all duck out, then you get other players playing instead that probably wouldn't have made it in otherwise. the Pro Bowl is kind of a sham to begin with, it's not like other All Star games in that it's still people bashing each other's brains in, and they have to try to avoid that, so it's a watered down high scoring affair that doesn't really demonstrate great play from the players.
in other words, this season especially, the NFL is desperate to maintain its relevance, so it's shoving gimmicks and overexposure down our throats. and I haven't even gotten into the silly rule changes they make.
I didn't go on strike cause of kneeling, I stopped watching because I'm sick of this shit. when the Bears become somewhat sorta ok again next season I might take time out to watch games again. I didn't watch a single playoff game this year, and I always love watching the conference championships. I'm sure I'm not alone.
