RANT: Football coverage in August

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I agree with you.

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by salb918 on Aug 31, 2005 2:26 PM PDT reply actions

You can rant and rave all you want...

...but until another sport knocks the NFL of the TV ratings throne, that's just the way it is.

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by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Aug 31, 2005 2:28 PM PDT reply actions

Same stupid people..

Who BUY the Christmas decorations in August....

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by 510inDenver on Aug 31, 2005 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah seriously

All the smart people buy Christmas decorations on December 26th!!

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by Melody on Aug 31, 2005 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions

So I'm Just taking A Guess Here

You don't care for football?

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by BornInOakland @ Athletics Nation on Aug 31, 2005 2:32 PM PDT reply actions

After the leaves change...
When sweaters are appropriate...
When students are worrying about midterms...
When the Xmas decorations go up in Union Square...
When I still have Halloween candy lying around the house....
When Thanksgiving Turkey and Cranberries are available...
When Eggnog fills the stores....

AND....especially when I am smugly enjoying another winning season by the Green and Gold.

Otherwise its a rude interuption to the natural flow of life. Summer is for kids throwing baseballs, and hot dogs and lemonade. NOT Rampant NFL moneymakers trying to pump up their already engorged coffers.

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by 510inDenver on Aug 31, 2005 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions

What's wrong with the NFL making money?

Isn't that what we want the A's to do so we can get a new stadium, better free agents, etc.? I'm a big football fan too and I think any fan of the two sports would tell you that the NFL has done the best possible job in promoting and improving its product, hence its perch as the undisputed top sport. The funny part is that baseball will go to number three, if it isn't already there, once NASCAR eclipses it. Baseball needs to take a long look at how they manage the game.

by mmurray on Aug 31, 2005 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions

I completely agree

I don't understand why I see more football coverage than baseball coverage and the season hasn't even started yet. I went into the breakroom for lunch and they had CNN on. It had the Sports Report on. Lets see today's top stories; Some football player lost his house in the hurricane, his family is safe though; The Saints have to play at SJSU for a few days because of the hurricane; Some Basketball team signed that Yo guy; And in Tennis, some chick beat out another chick into the next round. Ummm...hmmm... I thought it was baseball season! Where is all the baseball!? Don't get me wrong, I love sports and any other time of the year I would be all wrapped up in the other news stories, but it is Baseball season, not Football season! SHOW ME BASEBALL!!

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by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Aug 31, 2005 2:42 PM PDT reply actions

I hate football

I can relate to you, 510inDenver.

Give me baseball and basketball ANY DAY. :D

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by AsGirl on Aug 31, 2005 2:45 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah!

I'm also a baseball/basketball guy. In terms of playing the sport, those are the easiest to get a game going - football isn't hard to get a pick-up game going if you're gonna do touch-tag though. But seriously, whats the fun in that?

Also, I am skeptical about a sport where one game makes up 1/16th of your season. Thats like each game is more than 10 game win streak or losing streak in baseball.
I don't know about other fans, but I do my cheering during the game, not during the 6 off days, sometimes 12. Theres only so much analysis you can do. The off-field drama (can anyone say TO?) doesn't help with the sport's credibility either.

Football is a fun game to watch though, cuz its so freakin popular, that people can join in and say "OH DAMN, DID YOU SEE THAT HIT?" instead of more hard-core sports fans pouring baseball stats. Thats what makes it popular - people who work 16 hour days, don't want to think about the sport, they just want to relax with a beer and have bbqs on sundays. Its definetely easy to be a football fan in the US of A, violent fun, smack talk to fans of other teams (and with every game being televisied, all within two days, its pretty easy to get coverage of teams halfway around the country), testosterone all around. I admit I have a blast gambling on the superbowl (that office stat sheet), the social events that each sunday brings. But the sport itself? Not for me.

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by WhiteElephantGuy on Aug 31, 2005 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I have to disagree

about the pick-up game argument.

baseball (at least for me) is tougher to get a game started. it requires alot of space. and unless you're playing stikeout or pickle, you need a bunch of people with mits.

by AllThingsOakland on Aug 31, 2005 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions

I think Football pickup games are hard just

with me. Cuz my group usually includes a bunch of females and guys not too confident in their physical abilities. They don't like the bang-bang plays of football so they're not usually willing to play. Baseball however, doesn't take too much athleticism in their views, and its fun to swing a bat, and standing around, instead of running back and forth repetitively in a football game where only 1/10th of the time the play actually involves you. And also having a diamond right next to us is useful, whereas football can be played anywhere with grass.

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by WhiteElephantGuy on Aug 31, 2005 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Awwww

You girls are gonna make me blush :)

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by 510inDenver on Aug 31, 2005 2:50 PM PDT reply actions

Thank you!!!

pre-season games suck! It's AUGUST, BASEBALL TIME!!!

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by JJ on Aug 31, 2005 2:57 PM PDT reply actions

Oh cmon...

Football is the most populat sport in the US....People follow it year round....It hasnt been just a fall thing for a long time. I love the coverage we get now in the summer.

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by OaktownPower on Aug 31, 2005 3:04 PM PDT reply actions

That don't make it right.

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by 510inDenver on Aug 31, 2005 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions

know what else was popular?

friends, Oprah, reality TV and the Yankes. none of those are good things

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by pbruins92 on Aug 31, 2005 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions

I couldn't agree more

on every one of those subjects.

"It is like Menudo, where guys reach a certain age and are kicked out of the band. And they go on to be Ricky Martins somewhere else." -Billy Beane

by WhiteElephantGuy on Aug 31, 2005 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Yea, but things that are popular get covered.

Networks and newspapers, etc would be stupid to ignore things that are popular.

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on Aug 31, 2005 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Or conversely....

Things that get covered become popular. Reality TV, the Yankees, NASCAR

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by 510inDenver on Aug 31, 2005 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

B-I-N-G-O

Hit the nail on the head.

"Remember the time you stole my bat? And you lied and said I never had a bat. Then why did I have the donut Jason? Why did I have the donut?"-Adam Milhouse

by pbruins92 on Aug 31, 2005 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Haha...No way...

You think the NFL and Nascar are only popular cuz TV covers it? They were both popular way before the recent TV boom for both. Their popularity demands TV time....

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on Aug 31, 2005 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions

In point of fact

Footbal would never have seen its rise in popularity WITHOUT television. Football is a sport that lends itself better to television coverage, whereas baseball had been Americas Pasttime for 60 + years already

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by 510inDenver on Aug 31, 2005 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Just curious

How does everyone feel about baseball / A's coverage in march?

by AllThingsOakland on Aug 31, 2005 3:38 PM PDT reply actions

There i baseball coverage in March?

Sorry, after the WS its hockey for me until June.

"Remember the time you stole my bat? And you lied and said I never had a bat. Then why did I have the donut Jason? Why did I have the donut?"-Adam Milhouse

by pbruins92 on Aug 31, 2005 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions

for me its..

football on sundays, basketball during the week, and hockey only during the playoffs.

by AllThingsOakland on Aug 31, 2005 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Hockey is the worst sport on TV

I'd rather watch women's log rolling or the Dock Dogs long jump championship.

Football is a religion, almost as much as baseball for me. Come next Sunday, i will have 5 tvs hooked up in my garage with 5 different games going. 21 weeks later, I'll come out of my cave looking like Tom Hanks in Castaway.

by RunRickeyRun on Aug 31, 2005 4:21 PM PDT reply actions

Dude, I agree completely.

I'm biased because I hate football. My parents dragged me to Raiders games a lot when they came back to Oakland, and I just couldn't take it, I'd sit there with my nose in a book the entire game. Had to go to way too many high school football games, too. Ugh.

I just don't think I could survive as a football fan, since I don't get the appeal of only 16 games in a season. Hell, 162 games is too short of a season in my mind, sixteen is in 'blink and you'll miss it territory'.

But I just HATE seeing SC and TV filled with football for 60% of the programming this time of year. It's freakin' preseason. Third-stringers. Whether or not T.O. would show up to camp before it happened should NOT have been news. I get that it's ridiculously popular, but damn. This is the BEST PART of the baseball season, and it kills me a little to see it run over every year about a season that hasn't even STARTED yet. I mean, seeing twenty minute discussions of fantasy football on ESPN gives me a 'WTF' feeling given how many AMAZING races are going on in baseball right now. At least wait til the damn season starts to COMPLETELY take over my TV, please.

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by Kyli on Aug 31, 2005 10:12 PM PDT reply actions