Does anyone else hate NFL.com

[Chocolate Lab]

specifically the video section?

It's so frustrating how bad it is. I'm not a web designer like some of you are, but the thing is terribly awkward and irritating. When you try to watch a vid, you have to watch a fairly long ad with *no* option to pause or even mute it... I don't think I've ever seen that on any other site. And the vids don't seem to be in any particular order... The search results are weird, and after the vid you're looking for plays, the next one is totally unrelated to what you just watched. Not to mention that the volume isn't even standardized across them! So a very loud ad can blast out just after you've watched something at a normal volume.

Contrast this with MLB.com, which does play some ads (of course), but they're short enough and not nearly as loud. Most of all, you can easily find almost any play made by any player throughout the year, or even in past years. That's pretty cool and I can't imagine why NFL.com wouldn't be just as good.

I really have totally avoided NFL.com for a while, but every once in a while I try it to see if they've improved it. But no, no change.

Anyone else agree?

 

[Staggerlee]

specifically the video section?

It's so frustrating how bad it is. I'm not a web designer like some of you are, but the thing is terribly awkward and irritating. When you try to watch a vid, you have to watch a fairly long ad with *no* option to pause or even mute it... I don't think I've ever seen that on any other site. And the vids don't seem to be in any particular order... The search results are weird, and after the vid you're looking for plays, the next one is totally unrelated to what you just watched. Not to mention that the volume isn't even standardized across them! So a very loud ad can blast out just after you've watched something at a normal volume.

Contrast this with MLB.com, which does play some ads (of course), but they're short enough and not nearly as loud. Most of all, you can easily find almost any play made by any player throughout the year, or even in past years. That's pretty cool and I can't imagine why NFL.com wouldn't be just as good.

I really have totally avoided NFL.com for a while, but every once in a while I try it to see if they've improved it. But no, no change.

Anyone else agree?

No matter where you go on that site there are annoying, loud videos playing with no option to turn it down. I hate that site and never go there anymore.

 

[Illini88228]

I haven't been to NFL.com in months. It's an awful site. I keep NFL rewind bookmarked so that I can bypass the main site completely.

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

I usually just go to ESPN.com/nfl

Only time I go to NFL.com is for highlights of games I didn't get to see.

 

[Hoofbite]

NFL.com sucks.

They have multiple ads plastered everywhere, you're forced to watch the same ad over and over again.

Like one annoying time isn't enough to make me purchase the product but 5 is just the right amount.

The dumbest part is the fact that the videos are on autoplay. Whether or not you want to see them, you get them.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Hate the site. The only time I ever visit is to get stats for the league and that by-passes the adverts completely. I sent them two emails about it, no response to either of them.

 

[Hostile]

I haven't been to NFL.com in months. It's an awful site. I keep NFL rewind bookmarked so that I can bypass the main site completely.

Only reason I got there. Had not thought of bookmarking that. You are my hero.

 

[bbgun]

Their videos stink, which is why they spend a lot of their time taking down superior quality vids on YouTube.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Glad to see it's not me.

So if it's almost unanimously hated, aren't you surprised they haven't changed it yet? It's not like they just rolled it out... It's been bad for a couple of years now.

 

[fifaguy]

It is nearly impossible to watch videos on that site for some reason. Extremely laggy!!

 

[Garland powerplay]

NFL channel also getting hard to watch, same boring guys sitting around a table... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ dropped

 

[playmakers]

Use to be my homepage until it took 10 minutes to load before I could even go to another page. Those darn videos log big time.

 

[tupperware]

Videos there are still better than the ones from dallascowboys.com

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Videos there are still better than the ones from dallascowboys.com

Better than most of anything related to DallasCowboys.com.

 

[tupperware]

Better than most of anything related to DallasCowboys.com.

Some NFL teams have such nice sites too.

 

[sacase]

I hate that no matter what page you go to, you get a video playing even if you don't want one. Hello....sometimes I just go there to see the stats, not watch a friggin video!

 

[DallasEast]

specifically the video section?

It's so frustrating how bad it is. I'm not a web designer like some of you are, but the thing is terribly awkward and irritating. When you try to watch a vid, you have to watch a fairly long ad with *no* option to pause or even mute it... I don't think I've ever seen that on any other site. And the vids don't seem to be in any particular order... The search results are weird, and after the vid you're looking for plays, the next one is totally unrelated to what you just watched. Not to mention that the volume isn't even standardized across them! So a very loud ad can blast out just after you've watched something at a normal volume.

Contrast this with MLB.com, which does play some ads (of course), but they're short enough and not nearly as loud. Most of all, you can easily find almost any play made by any player throughout the year, or even in past years. That's pretty cool and I can't imagine why NFL.com wouldn't be just as good.

I really have totally avoided NFL.com for a while, but every once in a while I try it to see if they've improved it. But no, no change.

Anyone else agree?

I do not mind the advertisements. It is the quantity of ads that grate on my nerves. A webpage devoted to summaries, stats, etc., should not be treated like a game broadcast. If that were the case, they should just broadcast the game on the site along with the ads.

I'm not a web designer, but is there some way for them to embed their flash video better? The laptop I'm using is running Windows 7 64-bit with an Intel i7 cpu and Internet Explorer 9 whatever. Why do the videos, situated at the top third of the web page, impact something as simple as scrolling?

Searching for videos, like CL mentioned, is really bad. That slide scale/time frame filter is beyond stupid. It's like the web designer tried to invent something innovative and did not do any preliminary market testing before approving it, kinda like...

Hey Joe! Look at this video filter I designed! Sweet huh?

Yeah Frank. (take a huge drag on the joint) That's looks fannntastic. Got any chips?

I knew it! Thanks Joe! The chips are laying in your lap!

I still go there quite a bit, but it is getting harder to navigate easily. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in Batman, "That site needs an enema!"

 

[Kilyin]

Their videos stink, which is why they spend a lot of their time taking down superior quality vids on YouTube.

Yeah, I've got two strikes against me from "NFL LLC", so I've just been posting everything as unlisted.

 

[bbgun]

Yeah, I've got two strikes against me from "NFL LLC", so I've just been posting everything as unlisted.

That's weird. When I had one (and then two) strikes against me, they immediately disabled the "unlisted" feature, forcing me to go "public." Maybe they recently changed the policy.

 

[Kilyin]

That's weird. When I had one (and then two) strikes against me, they immediately disabled the "unlisted" feature, forcing me to go "public." Maybe they recently changed the policy.

Nah, it's the same with me. The loophole is you MUST select unlisted while uploading the video. After that, you can't unless your account has no strikes.