I learned that I am not as big a fan of the sport as I thought I was. I watched a few games this week, and thought every single game that I watched was a trash product, except for the quarter and a half that I watched of the Minnesota/Michigan game, which was entertaining football. Even though it was going great for me with an okie state 2h bet ... that isn't football. Sorry to be the old guy bitching .. but that is ...... not football. #notfootball. The targeting penalties are unbearable. The lack of tackling is unbearable. The snapping before the defense has a chance to get ready is unbearable. The Pass Interference interpretations are unbearable. The constant errors by video replay are unbearable (What's the point if they aren't going to reverse calls where a guys foot is clearly out of bounds or reverse calls when a guy is clearly down like in the ASU and Duke games?). The total ease with which receivers can run crossing patterns now without fear is silly, the total ease with which the QB position is played now is silly ... outside the pocket you get to throw it away, slide at the last second and you get a 15 yard penalty, release at the last second and you get a 15 yard penalty, ....
Pass interference is the worst ... you have three players ...
1. Player 1 is a wide receiver whose job it is to get open. He fails
2. Player 2 is a QB whose job it is to read the defense and get the ball to the open player. He fails and throws to covered player 1 who failed to get open.
3. Player 3 is a defensive back whose job it is to cover the wr. He succeeds.
And players 1 and 2 get rewarded over incidental crap every game when they didn't make good plays and player 2 gets punished for making a good play.
I could go on and on about how the powers that be have raped the game itself.
The product is still good if you are new to football ... I think that is probably true. But for long time fans the product is pure shit. It is a shell of its former self and it is the rare subject that virtually everyone I talk to agrees about ... the game is not as good as it was.
Throw in the fact that I have developed a disdain for the entitled kids playing, a disdain for coaches who do not understand a simple clock, a disdain for the NCAA for turning a blind eye to major programs who are cheating on the regular while punishing (seemingly randomly) kids, families, teams, programs, schools on a whim when they feel like it, a disdain for the announcers who know more about brain surgery than they do about football, a disdain for the officials who don't just miss calls (which I could accept) but seem to miss a lot of them consistently in favor or disfavor of a particular team all game long (and i say this while benefiting from it as much as i am punished from of it before you think it is sour grapes on anything).
Like I said, I could go on for a long time .... game is starting to suck.
