NFL

[gingerjon]

Arkansas 21:21 Oklahoma State with 9:37 remaining ...

[gingerjon]

10 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Arkansas 21:21 Oklahoma State with 9:37 remaining ...

That turned into quite the game.

Meanwhile, Notre Dame paid NIU $1.4m to come to South Bend ... and then NIU pulled off one of the biggest shocks by beating them 16-14. Not sure the Fighting Irish will keep their #5 ranking after that.

[Gerrumonside ref]

The first NFL Sunday is finally here - hurrah!

I’m biased but NFL Redzone during the culmination of the early and late games is still absolute essential viewing as it cuts from sporting drama to sporting drama.

I say this as a fan of pretty much all sport that nothing quite fits as well.

[Gerrumonside ref]

7 hours ago, gingerjon said:

That turned into quite the game.

Meanwhile, Notre Dame paid NIU $1.4m to come to South Bend ... and then NIU pulled off one of the biggest shocks by beating them 16-14. Not sure the Fighting Irish will keep their #5 ranking after that.

I switched off at 21-7 to watch a film and missed all the fun

[gingerjon]

48 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

I switched off at 21-7 to watch a film and missed all the fun

Arkansas may be the dumbest football team I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen plenty of the Chicago Bears.

[gingerjon]

49 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

The first NFL Sunday is finally here - hurrah!

I’m biased but NFL Redzone during the culmination of the early and late games is still absolute essential viewing as it cuts from sporting drama to sporting drama.

I say this as a fan of pretty much all sport that nothing quite fits as well.

Every other sport is too reactive for it to work - you’d be going there after something I’d happened or with no guarantee of the moment reaching a conclusion.

[Gerrumonside ref]

3 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Every other sport is too reactive for it to work - you’d be going there after something I’d happened or with no guarantee of the moment reaching a conclusion.

This is true!

[Maximus Decimus]

3 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Every other sport is too reactive for it to work - you’d be going there after something I’d happened or with no guarantee of the moment reaching a conclusion.

I've often thought how it would work with say a sport like football.

I think they could go to different places to show goal scoring chances, a bit like classic football manager did.

One of the things that works so well with NFL is the fact that they have 32 teams and the vast majority play on Sunday evening our time.

Football could only do Saturday and it would probably need to include all of the football league.

[Maximus Decimus]

Very interesting to see the new approach from NY Giants, as they've decided to try and emulate Paris St Germain RL circa 1996.

Not working so far though, 14-3 down.

[Maximus Decimus]

I understand the importance of putting points on the board, but Carolina going for 3 when 30-0 has some serious Rugby Union vibes about it.

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:

I've often thought how it would work with say a sport like football.

I think they could go to different places to show goal scoring chances, a bit like classic football manager did.

One of the things that works so well with NFL is the fact that they have 32 teams and the vast majority play on Sunday evening our time.

Football could only do Saturday and it would probably need to include all of the football league.

It works well on the radio when they cut around the games and that's obviously replicated by Soccer Saturday.

"There's been a red card but for who, Chris Kamara?"

[Maximus Decimus]

2 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

It works well on the radio when they cut around the games and that's obviously replicated by Soccer Saturday.

"There's been a red card but for who, Chris Kamara?"

One of the greatest moments of British TV.

[Liverpool Rover]

A good day of NFL. I wouldn’t have thought the Pats would win at the Bengals, the Lions look set to do well again and the Cowboys looked impressive against the Browns.

I’ll be watching my 49ers tonight. This season isn’t their chance but I do feel for this 49ers team the window is beginning to close and the last two seasons with Purdy at QB will see him get a big raise next year that might have an impact on the salary cap.

[Maximus Decimus]

19 hours ago, Liverpool Rover said:

A good day of NFL. I wouldn’t have thought the Pats would win at the Bengals, the Lions look set to do well again and the Cowboys looked impressive against the Browns.

I’ll be watching my 49ers tonight. This season isn’t their chance but I do feel for this 49ers team the window is beginning to close and the last two seasons with Purdy at QB will see him get a big raise next year that might have an impact on the salary cap.

Safe to say it went well. I'm hoping it was more a case of the 49ers being better than expected rather than it being a false dawn for the Jets.

I thought Rodgers did OK but surprisingly the Jets defense were off, the 49ers ran through them all night.

[THE RED ROOSTER]

Interesting to see how interest in the UK fares without weekly Free to Air coverage this season with Jason and Osi together now on You Tube rather than ITV.

Personally I felt Craig Doyle spoiled the show last season and the game now the poorer as a result.

[17 stone giant]

4 hours ago, THE RED ROOSTER said:

Interesting to see how interest in the UK fares without weekly Free to Air coverage this season with Jason and Osi together now on You Tube rather than ITV.

Personally I felt Craig Doyle spoiled the show last season and the game now the poorer as a result.

I didn't know that had finished. I used to like that show, whether on ITV or BBC, and irrespective of who the presenter was. I doubt I'll bother with YouTube. Shame.

[MattSantos]

4 hours ago, THE RED ROOSTER said:

Interesting to see how interest in the UK fares without weekly Free to Air coverage this season with Jason and Osi together now on You Tube rather than ITV.

Personally I felt Craig Doyle spoiled the show last season and the game now the poorer as a result.

It'll be fine. If you're fan, you're paying for SKY or whatever crappy version of GamePass exists these days.

Not great for the mega casual viewer though.*

*Are there any casual NFL fans? 

[Gerrumonside ref]

16 hours ago, MattSantos said:

It'll be fine. If you're fan, you're paying for SKY or whatever crappy version of GamePass exists these days.

Not great for the mega casual viewer though.*

*Are there any casual NFL fans? 

I don’t know, but the great highlight programmes of the early/mid 80s on C4 were a definite primer for me.

[MattSantos]

3 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

I don’t know, but the great highlight programmes of the early/mid 80s on C4 were a definite primer for me.

Very fair. Channel 5 got me into baseball.

[Maximus Decimus]

2 hours ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

I don’t know, but the great highlight programmes of the early/mid 80s on C4 were a definite primer for me.

One of my earliest sports memories is seeing my dad watching on a Sunday night. Funnily enough I remember not liking it.

Tbh I don't think many NFL fans are watching through terrestrial TV these days. They claim that there are millions of NFL fans in the UK now and of these 68% are between 18-44. This generation watches terrestrial TV far less.

I got back into NFL through Sky. This is despite it being on terrestrial TV and not having watched it in years.

[Maximus Decimus]

This season has been my first since following the game more seriously, and my first with any real expectation as a fan. Being a fan of the Jets and the Bears, expectations have been low. They were sky high last year but it lasted about 4 minutes...

It's been interesting to see just how critical the punditry has been. I think it's even worse than British football.

Yes the Jets first game wasn't great but so many have totally written off their chances based on it. Rodgers is done and their defence is shot. 

[Irish Saint]

With Tua Tagovailoa suffering another concession quite a few ex players stating it is time for him  to walk away? 

Nice to see a lot of the "Bills Mafia" donating to Tua's foundation after the game.

 

[Maximus Decimus]

1 hour ago, Irish Saint said:

With Tua Tagovailoa suffering another concession quite a few ex players stating it is time for him  to walk away? 

Nice to see a lot of the "Bills Mafia" donating to Tua's foundation after the game.

 

Yeh it's a tough one to see.

If you're Tua, maybe you don't retire but you start saving your paychecks with a view to it maybe not lasting much longer.

[EggFace]

On 13/09/2024 at 15:27, Gerrumonside ref said:

I don’t know, but the great highlight programmes of the early/mid 80s on C4 were a definite primer for me.

Loved the 90's show....but found Osi and the lad who went out with the Girls Aloud singer very annoying...bring back Mark Chapman.

[Liverpool Rover]

Even at the end when the Chiefs got that penalty there was still no doubt that they would win.