AFC Super Bowl representatives since 1985 Bears did the Super Bowl Shuffle: Patriots 9 Broncos 8 Steelers 4 Bills 4 Ravens 2 Colts 2 Bengals 1 Raiders 1 Chargers 1 Titans/Oilers 1 Dolphins 0 Jets 0 Jaguars 0 Texans 0 Chiefs 0 Browns 0 On the NFC side, over the same period, there is a much more even distribution and only two teams have not made an appearance: Giants 5 49ers 4 Cowboys 3 Seahawks 3 Packers 3 Panthers 2 Falcons 2 Bears 2 Rams 2 Redskins 2 Saints 1 Buccaneers 1 Cardinals 1 Eagles 1 Lions 0 Vikings 0 AFC teams that aren't the Pats, Broncos, or Steelers really get the shaft. The Bills had their chance, and nobody cared.
realistically there are only about 5-6 teams looking for a QB Sadly we are one of them and have been for 10+ years last time i felt good about our QB situation was after the 2002 season with pennington but sadly his injuries killed it and prevented us from going after brees. we got doubled fucked in that one. On the bright side we still aren't as bad off as the browns
Sadly the AFC has been much more dominant with "dynasty" franchises then the NFC has. and worse off for us the top franchise of the past 15 years is in our division
I don't know about anyone else but the only interest I have in the Super Bowl is that my numbers come up in the many pools I'm in. The last SP I paid attention to was III. Go Jets!
A real shame for all the young fans that have not experienced a televised NFL game without the excessive intrusions and interruptions. Are you nuts? Without those "interruptions" you wouldn't be seeing NFL football games for free. Count your blessings...or just TiVo the game and fast forward thru the commercials. That's how smart guys do it.
Smart guys work the DirecTV cancellations dept and get all the games for free, get a 200 dollar credit which actually means that DTV is paying them to get Sunday Ticket, then they DVR the games and watch them commercial free. And then they eat a bunch of hummus and pita chips and take a dump that requires only one wipe. Fuck yeah.
Oh, tell me more. I'm on the trial and need to cancel Sunday Ticket before the SB. And all the movie channels.
I doubt you'll get much play unless you've been with them for a few years. And since you're a Pats fan pretending to be a Jets fan on a Jets forum, my advice is to stuff an unopened can of peas down your throat. And if you swallow that easily, which you may, move on to one of those big ass cans of beans, the ones that look like a small snare drum.
Not sure why you singled out CBS. It would be very surprising if the NFL contracts with the networks had a significant difference in commercial time. You do realize everything you complain about is agreed upon way before you watch the game, right? CBS, ESPN, FOX and NBC combined shell out almost five billion a year to the NFL for the privilege. Go buy some more insurance before the dogs swim in your living room.
TiVo doesn't solve what I was trying to point out....no I'm not nuts Free? The cost of cutting into on-the field programming is what has taken place. You missed my main point - many of what makes the game so appealing , in my view , take place during the times between the actual plays themselves. I'm not about to write a war-and-peace article explaining why this is the case. There was a time when interruptions were practically non-existent - judging by your response to my post you may not have been born at the that time too bad......
Not sure how that comment has anything to do with the price of tea in China....whatever. Yes, the networks are shelling out all that wonderful cash to have the right to televise the games. And the more they shell out for each period under contract, the higher the cost to televise and the more ads are needed to cover/pay the bills. Maybe the NFl should be the final culprit., but when you have a network like CBS or ESPN or whomever to shell out that kind of money, who actually pays in the end? The viewer. Hey man, if you got a weak bladder or drinking all that beer during a football game makes u want to go take a piss every five-ten minutes that require more commercial breaks, more power to ya. When the next negotiation takes place to shell out more money by the networks to the NFL, I'm sure they'll all be taking into consideration all the seniors with weak prostates.
I think you have it a bit backwards. Yes, there are only about 5-6 teams looking for a QB in any given year. At the same time, there are 3-4 teams who are trying giving a retread a new start, and 3-4 teams who picked a QB in the last year or two and haven't given up on him yet, and 2-3 teams who have two mediocre QBs competing for one spot, etc, etc. In the end there are maybe 8 teams that actually have their QB situation nailed down for the long term.
I dont see what's wrong with that. If everyone wins then the league is a bigger joke. It should be hard to get to the SB. It should not be easy or something every team does every handful of years. You say "AFC teams that aren't the Pats, Broncos, or Steelers really get the shaft." they aren't getting the shaft they have the same opportunity as those teams they just suck. It is not the NFL's job to help out sucky teams.
I think the counter to that is that the NFC isn't dominated by three or four teams like that, but I don't think anybody feels like "everyone wins" it. The question is really why the NFC seems to have much greater and more consistent parity than the AFC. You are certainly entitled to you opinion, but I think the NFL is more compelling when you can't predict the Super Bowl participants before the first game of the kickoff. If the NFC was dominated by three or four teams like the AFC is, there would only be 6 markets watching games after Thanksgiving every year.
If you can come up with a better model on how to deliver a better product to the home viewer...for free...I'm all ears. I've worked exclusively in sports television for the last 20 years, so I'm very familiar with what's involved on the sales & production side. It's not cheap...from buying the broadcast rights to the physical production. No network is in business to lose money. So tell us how you would deliver the game, with all the between play content, to our living room commercial free. I'm listening.
Let's start with the comment - if you really watched any amount of football this season you could not have missed the Farmer's Insurance commercial with dogs doing synchronized swimming in someone's flooded living room. From your repeated bizarre mentions I can only imagine that you missed them by getting up quite often during commercial breaks; your bladder and prostate are your business, not ours. Apparently, when you actually do watch a game, the commercials bother you. What business model do you propose to replace lost advertising revenue in order to reduce the amount of commercials so you're able to spend more time with the cameras scanning the sidelines and the crowd. It certainly would be possible to produce these games with no commercial interruptions whatsoever but how many people do you expect would care to pay the amount needed per view to finance that? Perhaps you'd also like to eliminate replays because they use up time between downs also.
It's funny. I am well accustomed to the billion commercials when I watch on TV. Where I have a problem is when I actually go to a game and there are all these "TV Timeouts" where everyone is just standing on the field chatting.
That's the action BomberJets wants covered. The TV timeouts are a bummer...if there was a way to move the game along, I'm all for it. That's why I TiVo the game and zip thru the commercials.
