the NFL is not an authentic product

[HEREisAKERS]

This leagues about who can make everyone rich. When you are generating sales and interest, it doesn't matter who you trot out. You'll get calls and you'll get help. This is why Chip tossed Desean. Because at that time he was still a "mastermind" getting 5+ primetime audiences a season to tune in. It doesn't matter who's on the team if you are in the mix. The NFL is a soap opera for men and we are all the fools who are duped year after year into thinking the players, coaches have anything to do with it beyond conversion, sales and marketing. This is the big secret we are all too afraid to see because it means sacrificing our fandom and identity, which are like brand loyalty, an invented leash by which we are held year after year, season after season. The referees can give and they can take. Making them the ideal tool to keep the fans going back to the well.

[royal]

Eagles just suck.

[JuTMSY4]

i agree with this post.

[Big Little]

This

Also I read this as though it was a Radiohead song

Well said

[phillyeagles36]

At the end of the day, thank Chip. Eagles would have Mccoy, DeSean and Maclin, instead Eagles have Matthews, Mathews, Agholor and Green Beckham

[HEREisAKERS]

Nah, this same team of 53 guys could win 3 Super Bowls if the league saw any lucrative angle in that scenario.

[DJCon57]

This leagues about who can make everyone rich. When you are generating sales and interest, it doesn't matter who you trot out. You'll get calls and you'll get help. This is why Chip tossed Desean. Because at that time he was still a "mastermind" getting 5+ primetime audiences a season to tune in. It doesn't matter who's on the team if you are in the mix. The NFL is a soap opera for men and we are all the fools who are duped year after year into thinking the players, coaches have anything to do with it beyond conversion, sales and marketing. This is the big secret we are all too afraid to see because it means sacrificing our fandom and identity, which are like brand loyalty, an invented leash by which we are held year after year, season after season. The referees can give and they can take. Making them the ideal tool to keep the fans going back to the well.

I watched Cox get held all game then in a random spot he gets the call. Everything is so random. Either it's a hold or not a hold. If you don't call it, fine, then we all know the rules. But everything is so arbitrary. Nelson pushes off. No call? Ok that's fine. then don't call offensive pi

[royal]

This franchise is so sad I would gladly take a rigged SB

[HEREisAKERS]

Doesn't matter who is there. The roster is like a portfolio. You jettison some high risk products for some more moderate risks, add some steady mutual funds...you give the buyer (fans) the impression the portfolio is managed by experts. It is, but not to make them wealthy (wins). To win in this league you need consensus that your success means league wide financial prosperity.

[Loki]

Attica! Attica! Attica!

[Mr. Triple Dip]

Called offensive PI for blocking downfield on a screen pass but not when the receiver pushes off in order to make the catch.

[HEREisAKERS]

the Dallas game

I watched Cox get held all game then in a random spot he gets the call. Everything is so random. Either it's a hold or not a hold. If you don't call it, fine, then we all know the rules. But everything is so arbitrary. Nelson pushes off. No call? Ok that's fine. then don't call offensive pi

Was the season. They were like oh Dak came out on top in OT? smother Philadelphia now and let's sell a shitload of Cowboy merch...one day you will all see me on 60 Minutes exposing this league and recommending a class action racketeering and fraud suit...Attica!!

[art vandelay]

i'm not following the part about chip jettisoning good players. that is the reason that the eagles are no longer good enough to win. kind of refutes the theory that the refs decide what happens.

[smg]

Was the season. They were like oh Dak came out on top in OT? smother Philadelphia now and let's sell a shitload of Cowboy merch...one day you will all see me on 60 Minutes exposing this league and recommending a class action racketeering and fraud suit...Attica!!

You been drinking?

[DEERSPINE GUY]

I BELIEVE THE NFL STEPPED IN AND SAID NO WAY THEIR BELOVED PACKERS LOSE 5 IN A ROW, AND MADE DAMN SURE OF IT, ......AS IF THEY NEEDED HELP BEATING THE IGGS TONIGHT, WHICH THEY DIDN'T.