Ok this topic has been brewing for a couple of weeks now. It seems a perfect time to address this with the most recent news out of Monday Night Football’s game between the Titans and the Jags. I and my fellow Shock Jocker, Scott, have been discussing the apparent up-tick in commercials and commercial breaks during NFL games. I believe it has now risen to the level of the ridiculous. Seemingly every 5 minutes there is another commercial break. Now I’m all for capitalism and making money, but the NFL is also in the entertainment business. Mr. Goddell, all these commercials are NOT entertaining. They are annoying. And you know it’s getting really bad when you flip to the Red Zone channel on DirecTV’s NFL package and they have to show replays because there are no live games playing at the time. So let me get this straight, we have 8 or 9 games in progress and not a single one is currently playing? They are ALL on commercial break? Something is wrong with that. This has not only happened once, but we have noticed it several times over the past couple of weeks.

This takes us to the Monday Night game where the Titans were crushing the Jaguars. According to Jeff Fisher the lead referee came to him with only a couple of minutes left and said we (ESPN) are couple of commercials short and requested that both coaches call some timeouts so they could get them in. Seriously??? I already have a hard enough time staying up till 1am to watch these games. Now I need to wait 15 or 20 minutes extra so you guys can make some more money? Jack Del Rio apparently did heed this call for a timeout. This resulted in the Titan’s Chris Johnson scoring a 35 yard touchdown on a 4th down with under 2 minutes remaining. If I was a player on the Jags I’d be pissed. Hey coach, they were gonna kneel down and end the game. Now you made us look like chumps, hurt our stats, and helped us looked even worse than we already did. Thanks. Any coach that would have said yes to that request is a fool in my estimation. Jeff Fisher declined because he just wanted to kneel down and end the game. But because Del Rio decided to call an unnecessary timeout they had to try for the first down.

I guess Randy Moss was right when he said the NFL is just a business now. It’s not a game. And the sooner the fans get this through their heads the better. When I heard that I was a little taken aback. I know it’s a business, but the way he put it was that the game was not fun anymore. It’s a job. Well if you take the fun out why would anyone want to subject their bodies to the punishment? Just for the money? If the NFL keeps going the way it is I believe players will begin to retire earlier and earlier. When you are considered only a product to be discarded when used up why would I give a crap about your organization? People don’t work that way. The new Randy Moss’s of the world will retire early after they’ve gotten their money and just say screw it. What’s the point? They will get into the game for the love of it, but then soon realize in the NFL that there’s no fun anymore. Hell if it was me I would get in, get my money, get out, and then go play for some minor league team somewhere, or in Canada and have fun again. That way you get the best of both worlds. You have your cash, you get to play for fun, and you don’t have all the annoying reporters bothering you anymore. It’s a win, win, win scenario.

I believe the NFL needs to be really careful over the next couple of years. You have a pending player strike coming up, largely due to this idiot Head of the Players Association in my view. You have league ideas like raising the number of games to 18. You have talk of putting a team in another country, or worse yet playing a Super Bowl in another country. This is AMERICA’s game. I DON’T WANT it played in another country. The ONLY reason to do this is money. I love football. I grew up playing it. I do not like the turns the NFL is taking. They seem to be putting out all these feelers to see what sticks and what doesn’t. Maybe I’m too old school, but I’m beginning to not enjoy watching the games anymore.

The NFL seems oblivious to this countries current economic status. Their ticket prices are through the roof, the vender’s prices at the games are out of control, the NFL Ticket on DirecTV keeps raising its prices, the NFL Network, FOX, and CBS now put sponsors in their segments like it’s some kind of talk radio show, and now you want to annoy me by putting 50 commercials in during a game? And you do this to the extent that you ask coaches to take timeouts to get them all in. It’s BS. Why don’t I just wait till Sunday night and watch the highlights? At least then I won’t be subjected to the commercials. I could actually get some yard work done. Hey that’s an idea. Skip the games for yard work. NFL if you make that be my choice you are soon to fail.