NFL “Script” from September

[ProcessBlue2]

This picture was posted by the NFL back in September and shows Darnold and Maye at the front closest to the Lombardi trophy. I personally don’t believe in the “script” theory. I do believe that the NFL will influence specific games to get a more entertaining outcome at times. However, this is gaining some steam online and even got a response from NFL PR.

 

[PNW_PantherMan]

Bryce is just as close as Darnold lol

[SmokinwithWilly]

1 minute ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Bryce is just as close as Darnold lol

And Ward

[LinvilleGorge]

The NFL absolutely has preferred outcomes. Playoff viewership can swing pretty dramatically. But honestly, the Super Bowl is an entity of it's own. Doesn't matter who is there viewership is going to be massive. It's the biggest television event of the year and is way bigger than the game of football. It's a complete media spectacle and the football game itself has honestly almost become a background for it. The diehard football fans are tuning in for the game, but the spectacle itself is what draws the massive viewership and there's a lot of people watching that don't know their ass from their elbow when it comes to football. It's why I don't understand all the uproar from football fans about halftime acts. Guys, the halftime show isn't for you. They know that. They're not catering to you with it. You're watching anyway. The halftime act is to try to maximize the non-football audience. Let them enjoy it. Halftime for you is a break to grab some beers and wings. I can honestly only remember actually tuning in for one halftime show and that was the Dre/Snoop/Eminem year.

[strato]

I don’t really much watch the Super Bowl anymore. Especially when the same team is always in it. Sometimes. But for all those reasons that tie in with that generally obscenely overproduced halftime show, I care less and less.

We have had some good contests. But with all that stuff and Taylor Swift and the whole thing I barely paid attention to it last year. So often it is about the commercials and the halftime show and the game is just meh. 
 

The conference championship weekend, generally, is where the real Super Bowl is played. At least as often as not. 
I think that the Rams Seattle game had the two best teams in it. 

Edited 2 hours ago by strato

[Khyber53]

From a design perspective... the favored teams would be in the forefront to catch the eye. Barkley, Purdy, Burrow, Mahomes, Watt... the usual suspects. Those way, way off in the distance, closest to the trophy, would be the ones that at the beginning of the season they would have been writing off as no chancers, so they get the wee teeny-tiny images in the picture.

There ain't no fix, just people manufacturing clicks.

Edited 2 hours ago by Khyber53

[ProcessBlue2]

I don’t think I’ve watched the Super Bowl all the way through in a few years. It feels less like a football game and more like a parade with some football sprinkled in. All the celebrities, acts, performances, 100 commercials, etc.