Who here likes NFL parity???

[Bob Sacamano]

So 1/5 of the time you get a great game and 4/5 of the time you get a horrible game. Before the 1999 superbowl i really never liked watching the SB because it was always godawful boring.

you don't think the last 3 we've seen haven't been boring?

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

That's just the thing though, they WERENT fun to watch. Today's NFL is very relative.

That Cowboys/Seahawks game, while entertaining, was not good football, not even decent football. I miss the days of two heavyweights showing up with their best games and slugging it out for 60 minutes.

Do not mistake league-wide mediocrity and nail biting finishes for good football.

i didnt see a ton of flags and i didnt see a whole lot of botched assignments. i guess you dont like the college game either because those guys are clearly inferior to the talent in the NFL.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

you don't think the last 3 we've seen haven't been boring?

well i have been a bit sauced and this last one was putrid. all im saying is that the games overall in the playoffs are much more fun to watch.

 

[TheProphet]

That might be part of it. I think we all fall victim to our frame of reference.

I hear you. Could you imagine how Staubach's numbers could have been even better had all the rule changes favoring the passing game been in place in his day? Just one example. Or how about had it not had to endure the late shots QB's took back then as defensive linemen came barrelling into them.

 

[The30YardSlant]

Before the 1999 superbowl i really never liked watching the SB because it was always godawful boring.

Then you just don't know football

1998
1996
1994
1993
1991
1989
1983
1982
1980
1979
1978
1976
1973
1972
1971
1969

That's 16 of 32 SBs before 1999 that were either exceptional games or Cowboys wins. So you're 4 out of every 5 sucked argument just got thrown out the window.

 

[The30YardSlant]

i didnt see a ton of flags and i didnt see a whole lot of botched assignments. i guess you dont like the college game either because those guys are clearly inferior to the talent in the NFL.

I love the college game because there is little parity. There are 20-25 programs who are on or near the top every year out of 117 total teams.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Then you just don't know football

1998
1996
1994
1993
1991
1989
1983
1982
1980
1979
1978
1976
1973
1972
1971
1969

That's 16 of 32 SBs before 1999 that were either exceptional games or Cowboys wins. So you're 4 out of every 5 sucked argument just got thrown out the window.

Oh dont start that i dont know football garbage. Its lame smack. i was simply going off what you said on how every 5 years a good game would come along not basing anything off my personal experience.

 

[The30YardSlant]

well i have been a bit sauced and this last one was putrid. all im saying is that the games overall in the playoffs are much more fun to watch.

Yes, this past NFC title game was MUCH more entertaining than the one's from the pre-salary cap era

 

[The30YardSlant]

Oh dont start that i dont know football garbage. Its lame smack. i was simply going off what you said on how every 5 years a good game would come along not basing anything off my personal experience.

This doesnt even make sense. Backpedal, gather your thoughts, and try again please

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I love the college game because there is little parity. There are 20-25 programs who are on or near the top every year out of 117 total teams.

But the actualy quality of the football is just not there. im sorry but if you want to compare OSU-Michigan football with the old 49ers-Cowboys battles youre just kidding yourself. Sorry but there is a definite reason why gimmick offenses and defesnses work so well in the college game and not in the NFL. Nebraska being so dominant in the 80s and 90s with that primitive system they ran was a travesty.

You seem to think that because two teams defeated clearly inferior competition before facing each other that it defines greatness. I think exactly the opposite.

 

[DallasEast]

Before the 1999 superbowl i really never liked watching the SB because it was always godawful boring.

Funny. I had the privilege of watching every championship game from Super Bowl X through the Denver/Green Bay Super Bowl. Every single game was very entertaining to me because at least one team on the field during each Super Bowl had great rosters which played great games. Shoot, I even enjoyed the Commanders blowout of Denver.

I hate admitting that.

It was only during the Denver/Atlanta Super Bowl when my appreciation of the teams and how they played dropped. The only Super Bowl that noticably piqued my viewing pleasure since was the Patriots/Panthers Super Bowl, but not as much as I would have liked.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

This doesnt even make sense. Backpedal, gather your thoughts, and try again please

its not a backpedal read the post i quoted when i put the 1/5 and 4/5 figures and get back to me. If you still cannot figure it out and how i got it from what you said ill be happy to explain.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

And you anti parity guys are any of you under the age of 30? im not asking to be a jerk but i think theres a definite demographic thing going on here.

 

[DallasEast]

I love the college game because there is little parity. There are 20-25 programs who are on or near the top every year out of 117 total teams.

 

[The30YardSlant]

And you anti parity guys are any of you under the age of 30? im not asking to be a jerk but i think theres a definite demographic thing going on here.

I'm 21

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Sorry i just cannot see how Texas gets to kill North Texas or Rice is very entertaining.

 

[DallasEast]

And you anti parity guys are any of you under the age of 30? im not asking to be a jerk but i think theres a definite demographic thing going on here.

I haven't seen 30 in 12 years.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I'm 21

i wonder if any of the other antiparity guys are.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

well im sorry if you guys dont like it. i understand why you guys like the dominant teams but i just dont agree with it.

to me its like cheering for the house in blackjack.

 

[The30YardSlant]

Sorry i just cannot see how Texas gets to kill North Texas or Rice is very entertaining.

Because it's the way it's supposed to be

Is it fun to watch a cat catch and toy with a mouse, then eat it, knowing the mouse never had a chance? No, but it's the way the world is supposed to work.

And if you're a fan of said team, there is nothing more fun than watching a 66-3 beatdown IMO. As an A&M fan, watching a 45-0 pounding of Baylor or a 66-13 thrashing of SMU is very entertaining