Is the NFL on the verge of causing its fans to suffer football fatigue?

Professional College Football no longer has the same meaning now that players are playing for themselves and not the team. The game is ruined at that level now. It's also drying up non revenue generating college sports programs by shrinking their budgets to support what is happening.

 

I'm very much tired of their greed. I absolutely HATE international games. I absolutely HATE the streaming games. I would stop watching but I know that is a futile thing to do, I would only be punishing myself.

 

I think many younger "fans" already have the various streaming services for other content...but that is certainly highly variable.

College football has made it bewildering and difficult to watch games without various conference and/or region specific networks. It still seems super popular.

But, to your point, it has totally stopped my own college football viewing. UW is either on a network I do not get or on a higher priced tier or some other place that is far too many steps for me to just want to flip the game on while I am working in the garage kind of deal.

It is almost certain that a collaborative effort between the owners, the league, and the content platforms will kill the goose that laid the golden egg at some point. Sometimes it feels like half the internet and most of TV is propped up by NFL content.

 

I never said it wasn't, what does that have to do with what I said??
Also there are 5 hundred, and 30 something college teams, and only 32 NFL teams so what do you expect??

 

I dont seem to have any problems watching college games. I didn't miss one Razorbacks game, and I don't have any streaming services. I watch the Little 10,and 12, and the SEC mostly, and of course whomever they play.

 

Badgers end up on either the Big10 network or Fox Sports 1 for most of their games. Cable/TV providers have those channels on separate more expensive pay tiers.

I barely want the cable they make me have to get the dang internet. I guess it isn't streaming services per se, but just the super annoying way tv providers chop up the networks in my area.

 

I see.
I get both those channels on my satellite, of course during the football season I get the sports package, and during the rest of the year, I get the smallest , most basic package they have.

 

SteelersfaninPhilly said "College is a better product."

I said "I can't take college football seriously when peoples' voting plays a part and teams pad their schedules with cupcakes."

You said "You don't think that is happening in the NFL, in anyway??? Especially the schedules. How do you think we get the Ravens at the end of the season every year lately, and that's just a small example." which doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I said.

I said "The difference between the best and worst teams in the NFL is way smaller than the difference between Powerhouse U. and Podunk State in college" going back to my original point and pointing out that NFL teams can't pad their schedules with cupcakes.