Home Team locker room cameras.

It is now a requirement of each NFL Home team to have locker room cameras installed and broadcast footage for all the fans.

http://www.kctv5.com/story/22809563/nfl-players-lament-pre-game-camera-expansion

Another brilliantly stupid idea from Gooddell.

What next? Set up an App for the game plan?

 

How about huddle cams, like in the XFL? They're already doing them for the masterpiece that is the Pro Bowl. I'm sure there's a lot Goodell can learn from Vince McMahan.

 

Great. Just what I want to see, some linebackers dong as he's getting dressed for the game.

 

This might be Gooddell's way of trying to get more female fans to watch the game. It's all good until they see Big Snacks fat a**!

 

Word around the NFL is that whenever they expand this to the visiting teams locker rooms for 2014, the Patriots will be the first ones in compliance. In fact, rumor has it that they already are.

 

From the article:
fans will be disappointed not to see feisty, fire-up-the troops speeches before games. Instead, fans will see players listening to music, staring at the wall, running in place, doing stretching exercises, taking a nap, playing cards.

Uh-oh. I can see this one coming from a mile away. Another way to criticize a player or coach for a poor performance. Whats the over/under on how long someone brings up that Antonio Browns key drop late in a game was due to his pregame nap instead of him warming up? I say 15 seconds. Hack reporters and MB dolts alike will be over this like stink on s#!t.

 

I can foresee a bunch of politically correct lawsuits coming forth.

I mean after Aaron Hernandez, the first time a player says that they want to kill the other team today, the police will bust down the doors and start prosecuting. Verbal threats will no longer be tolerated even if it is just a figure of speech.

When Peezy said they shot me in Denver it will take on a whole new meaning now. They wiill view it as a threat of pending retaliation. Probably would have been suspended from traveling to the city and actually participating.

 

This is just a HORRIBLE idea!
I can`t believe the owners caved, and agreed to this...
It is completeley against all of their own best interests(unless they are more interested in the almighty dollar, than WINNING FRUKIN FOOTBALL GAMES!!!)...SMDH...
Just when I think I have lived long enough, and seen enough things, that nuthin will surprise me... along comes something like this......
Just unbelievable.
I know we live in a media saturated society, and people expect video with any news story, but Geesh... Is NOTHING off-limits?!?
Gonna start followin the guys to the showers/****ters, next?!?
Terrible idea. period.:kapow:

 

Such a stupid idea!

There's this myth out there that coaches give these intense pre-game speeches and the players all go nuts. Fans are in for a rude awakening

 

I`m not usually at a loss for words, but this just strikes me as such a bad idea on so many levels, I don`t even know where to start...
I guess I will start with the most obvious...
We, as a team, like to keep our "dirty laundry" in house...
We don`t like it when players speak to the media, outside of the locker room, in general.(as it should be)...
Now, they are supposed to "self-censor", their words/actions, before a game, because they have cameras on them right before the game?!?
What a crock of !!!!!!!
As a blue-collar kinda guy, I accept, that I have to watch my actions, any time I venture out of the sanctity of my own home, and go to a bar, or the store, or whatever....
I don`t like it, But I KNOW there are cameras at every public place I go, so I need to act accordingly.
It may help me practice self-restraint, when confronted with a situation, where my natural instincts are to punch someone in the mouth, or go off, verbally on a deserving idiot, but, I know better...(on the other hand, sometimes the cameras would justify my actions)... I just have a personal pet-peeve, with the prevalence of cameras/ cell phone videos, in our society, today.
Sure, they are not all bad, sometimes they work for good, it`s just creepy to me, in a "Big Brother", kinda way...
I do NOT accept, that I should have to watch my language, or actions, in the privacy of my own home.
And to me... that locker room, IS the players` home.
Guess their owners have decided to give up the right to even that small amount of privacy they have, from the media, that hound them, anytime they are not in their own home.
Might as well bring in the "hard knocks" show, for every team in the league...
And make it MANDATORY, to accept it!
O.K. Got that off my chest for now, I reserve the right to come back later, and expand upon the reasons this is a BAAAAAADDDD idea!!!!
Let me count the ways....
Uuuggghhh!:goodell::godell:

 

If I were at Notre Dame, I might want to see the players hit the sign on the way to the field, that would be cool. Now, I'm guessing that most NFL teams don't do anything like that. So other than the 30 seconds before they are introduced, just to raise a cheer in the stadium, I don't know that I really want to see anything. My gut tells me there will be a camera that isn't in view of any changing area that a variety of players will pass by and make some motions in front of. Then they will walk out of the view of the camera. This may even be what comes of it after the NFLPA gets involved.

 

This is the most asinine idea I have ever heard of. I believe the NFL is like big business...they believe they are too big to fail. I hate some of the new rules to the game and some of the things that the NFL is doing. As much as I love the game and the Steelers it wont be long before I'm done with the NFL. I know a lot of people that are about 2 stupid ideas...wait, now 1 stupid idea away from ending their fanship of the NFL. On a side note and only because this is too funny, I have to share a call that just came across the radio. In a small town near where I work the police are currently chasing stray horses down the highway. Only in Iowa!

 

My question is, when will we see these camera views? Like during the pregame stuff? For the most part, the major networks pregame show doesn't actually give the game coverage over to the broadcast team until it's almost about to start. Maybe this will be just like when they show a team warming up?

I COULD see this as being beneficial if a player gets injured and they have a camera in the trainers room. But I doubt that would likely happen.

 

Not good at all.

 

Yeah, I could see this as being an advantage for the opponents

 

I disagree with giving up on the NFL. The game is more popular than ever. As stupid as this idea is, once the game actually starts, this dumb stunt no longer matters and I can enjoy my football

 

There are some precedents from other sports, of course.

In Formula 1, for example, they broadcast conversations between drivers and their pit crew - but they do it some time after so other teams (watching the broadcast) can't capitalise. It's sometimes fun to hear a driver go ape**** at his crew, but they tend to speak in code now because of the other team's listening in.

In Rugby League, they show the halftime pep talk (usually just before they go back on the pitch), but the league doesn't have the kind of resources to have other team's listening in , and what they're saying at that point in the break is rarely insightful.

I suppose what I'm saying is - other sports have done this without affecting play too much, but the results are pretty minimal in terms of improving fan experience.

 

New England wanted this rule!!!

 

Here lately, Front Office Cameras at New England, Denver, and Cleveland would probably be a whole lot more entertaining.

 

i'm going to be eating at some point during the games. nobody should have to see that while ingesting food.

ok let's interview big snack while he's taking his ceremonial dump before every game.

" well for the fans that want to be in the know" lets pan in and see what casey has been eating. "there's some corn, some nuts, and yes, he ate the bones folks." "wait what is that erin?" "is that a license plate?" "why I think it is." "this is great footage." "well there it is steeler nation, you saw it here first on commode cam."

 

"And now let's go to Dr. Neal ElAttrache for further examination. Doc?"
"Ah, just as I thought. This one must have come up with the gulf stream, in southern waters."
"The license plate, doc - he didn't eat a car, did he?"
"No. A Casey is like a garbage can. It'll eat anything. Someone probably threw that in a river."

I never ever say lol, but I have to for this. That was hilarious mac.

 

I don't know if it's just for rah, rah type pep rally purposes to try and get fans fired up before games but really nothing good can come out of this. The media sensationalism in this day and age will pick apart any little quote to try and get a story going. America is so politically correct and dumbed down that they will grasp and hold accountable if they so choose to the slightest of degrees anything that a player or coach may say.

And here I thought just asking a coach what there 2nd half gameplan is while going into halftime was ridiculous. Now you will have a reporter with microphones asking what the first play of the game will be, if you are going to run the ball outside or inside the tackles and what gimmick play you are going to throw at them.

 

Furthermore to my comments above is why is it only the Home Team? Will this create an unfair advantage?
What happens when they play in London?
I know one team is the home team and the other is away.
Why just do it for one of those teams and not the other?
GOODDELL IS A FOOL!