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Am I the only one who finds the last two or three weeks of the NFL season disgusting because teams that have their playoff picture already decided ("nothing to win" or "nothing to lose") bench their panty-boy "stars"?
Sure, I understand the "logic". The playoffs are everything and fans who pay to see game #16 can go suck eggs. I'd understand it a lot better if the teams planning to field their crap players for most of a game would charge the fans about half-price for seats, parking, hot dogs and beer. The last I heard, season ticket holders aren't being offered refunds for the last game(s) when they're treated to the spectacle of the team's rookies and third-stringers bumbling around on the field. Final score: Ourcrap 6, Yourcrap 5 (thank heavens for that safety!) with 47 interceptions, 68 sacks, 104 fumbles and 12 plays where the balll carrier ran the wrong direction. Each team penalized more yards than they made on offense. Length of game: 1 minute less than eternity. Entertainment value: minus 37.
Would it be unfortunate if you lost your best running back in the fourth quarter of a "meaningless" game? Yes, it would but that's how the cookie crumbles in a big-boys world. If every other team faces the same prospect, it's all good. I can't really see any difference between that and losing him for the season to injury during the first game and thereby never making the playoffs at all. Heck, why do you play him at all unless you "get to the playoffs"? Just strap a nice fluffy pillow to this panty-boy's sensitive a$$ the first game of preseason, and sit him on the bench (next to the Gatorade barrel with a long straw so he doesn't have to move) until the playoffs...if you get there. THEN panty-boy can play, if his mommy says it's okay.
This is a professional sport and we pay these panty-boys huge amounts of money to play - EVERY game. More importantly, fans pay enormous ticket/concession/parking prices to come and watch them play - EVERY game. Advertisers pay enormous sums to advertise, including games that hardly anyone watches because you know you're going to be treated to watching the rookies screw up. Viewers end up watching the World Series of Poker, because there ain't nothing interesting about football.
Be a man, coach, and stop ruining the entertainment value of the last part of the season. Put your best team on the field, every game. Your players are paid, ultimately BY THE FANS, to play 16 games, not 15 or 14, so play them for 16 games instead of floating your crap out onto the field. If your "A-team" survives the ENTIRE season, including the last game(s), you deserve to go to the playoffs. Coach the playoffs when the playoffs start, not before. We PAY for that 16th game like any other game, and not so we can watch your grandmother washing out her undies in a big tub at midfield.
And what are we saying when we run panty-boy out onto the field for 30 seconds in a "meaningless game", run a play designed for him where he can hardly fail to catch that one ball he needs to set a "record for receptions" (he makes 1 yard, but it's a catch), and then sit him down? What in the HELL is that crap about?
Imagine you go to Vegas and pay to see Cirque du Soleil (at big-buck prices), and they come out and announce that since it's the last performance of the year the regular show won't be shown. A big performer might be injured, after all, and they're so tired, they need the rest! Nope...instead, the audience will be treated to high school gymnastics. Oh, yes - one of our "star" clowns needs to do one belly-flop from the high-wire in order to set a season record for belly-flops, so you will get to see him if you don't blink....whoops! You missed it. Too bad. And now, at center ring, 14-year-old Bunnie Bumgardner from Cesspool High School will do some flips for you....
I don't know about you, and it's nothing personal against Bunnie Bumgardner, who did a fine job on her flips until she sprained her wrist, but I think I might be asking for my money back.
Maybe the most honest thing you could do if you're not going to put on a decent game is just cancel the "meaningless" games. After all, they're MEANINGLESS, right? Why play them at all? Put on something more fun - like reruns of "The Brady Bunch". Oh, yeah - I forgot those advertisers and the bucks they bring in even for meaningless games....so sorry. Probably can't charge them quite as much for "The Brady Bunch".
Final Score: Money-Sucking Pigs win, Fans lose.
Sure, I understand the "logic". The playoffs are everything and fans who pay to see game #16 can go suck eggs. I'd understand it a lot better if the teams planning to field their crap players for most of a game would charge the fans about half-price for seats, parking, hot dogs and beer. The last I heard, season ticket holders aren't being offered refunds for the last game(s) when they're treated to the spectacle of the team's rookies and third-stringers bumbling around on the field. Final score: Ourcrap 6, Yourcrap 5 (thank heavens for that safety!) with 47 interceptions, 68 sacks, 104 fumbles and 12 plays where the balll carrier ran the wrong direction. Each team penalized more yards than they made on offense. Length of game: 1 minute less than eternity. Entertainment value: minus 37.
Would it be unfortunate if you lost your best running back in the fourth quarter of a "meaningless" game? Yes, it would but that's how the cookie crumbles in a big-boys world. If every other team faces the same prospect, it's all good. I can't really see any difference between that and losing him for the season to injury during the first game and thereby never making the playoffs at all. Heck, why do you play him at all unless you "get to the playoffs"? Just strap a nice fluffy pillow to this panty-boy's sensitive a$$ the first game of preseason, and sit him on the bench (next to the Gatorade barrel with a long straw so he doesn't have to move) until the playoffs...if you get there. THEN panty-boy can play, if his mommy says it's okay.
This is a professional sport and we pay these panty-boys huge amounts of money to play - EVERY game. More importantly, fans pay enormous ticket/concession/parking prices to come and watch them play - EVERY game. Advertisers pay enormous sums to advertise, including games that hardly anyone watches because you know you're going to be treated to watching the rookies screw up. Viewers end up watching the World Series of Poker, because there ain't nothing interesting about football.
Be a man, coach, and stop ruining the entertainment value of the last part of the season. Put your best team on the field, every game. Your players are paid, ultimately BY THE FANS, to play 16 games, not 15 or 14, so play them for 16 games instead of floating your crap out onto the field. If your "A-team" survives the ENTIRE season, including the last game(s), you deserve to go to the playoffs. Coach the playoffs when the playoffs start, not before. We PAY for that 16th game like any other game, and not so we can watch your grandmother washing out her undies in a big tub at midfield.
And what are we saying when we run panty-boy out onto the field for 30 seconds in a "meaningless game", run a play designed for him where he can hardly fail to catch that one ball he needs to set a "record for receptions" (he makes 1 yard, but it's a catch), and then sit him down? What in the HELL is that crap about?
Imagine you go to Vegas and pay to see Cirque du Soleil (at big-buck prices), and they come out and announce that since it's the last performance of the year the regular show won't be shown. A big performer might be injured, after all, and they're so tired, they need the rest! Nope...instead, the audience will be treated to high school gymnastics. Oh, yes - one of our "star" clowns needs to do one belly-flop from the high-wire in order to set a season record for belly-flops, so you will get to see him if you don't blink....whoops! You missed it. Too bad. And now, at center ring, 14-year-old Bunnie Bumgardner from Cesspool High School will do some flips for you....
I don't know about you, and it's nothing personal against Bunnie Bumgardner, who did a fine job on her flips until she sprained her wrist, but I think I might be asking for my money back.
Maybe the most honest thing you could do if you're not going to put on a decent game is just cancel the "meaningless" games. After all, they're MEANINGLESS, right? Why play them at all? Put on something more fun - like reruns of "The Brady Bunch". Oh, yeah - I forgot those advertisers and the bucks they bring in even for meaningless games....so sorry. Probably can't charge them quite as much for "The Brady Bunch".
Final Score: Money-Sucking Pigs win, Fans lose.
) having the opposing team put in their second string, third string, fourth string, janitorial staff string (beans), or whatever, gives us a little hope we won't suffer a total blow out. 
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