There are many more distractions now versus then. I agree that it is over exposed. I don't get the political reasons. If I want to watch a game, Kaepernick kneeling during the anthem surely won't make me to turn away. I don't tie patriotism into watching sports. Cuban makes a good point about pigs getting slaughtered. Good memories shared about first games. Mine were at municipal stadium in Cleveland too.
Flag waving SOBs like myself are dying off. Legion sponsored baseball used to be the norm, no longer. We fought a "war" for five years and the commitment created the "greatest generation." Congress was filled with veterans from service for decades after. Now the media pitches a fit when presidents want to have three in a cabinet. On 9/11 we suffered another Pearl Harbor like attack. Supposedly we have been at "war" for 15 years, yet, without the commitment and terror prosecuted by a "JV team" has been allowed to displace millions. Tomorrow there will be two more funerals for veterans from our area. The VFW funeral detail w/rifles will provide military honors. The local Patriot Guard, on bikes, with flags will, at the request of the families, form flag lines outside the services and at graveside. If watching your pro football game is more important to you than respect for the colors, fine. No, you did not tie patriotism to watching sports. It was done generations ago whenever they started playing the Anthem before games. You probably don't fly a flag at home, but, when you go by a house that does there is likely someone there who cares.
Could you be more get-off-my-lawn clueless?
There's nothing inherently wrong with your patriotic views.
Other than that they are classically stuck in a mindset of 50 years ago.
It's so sad. You don't even see how, in this post and your book of work here, close-minded you are. You simply cannot tolerate thinking that is outside your overly limited point of view.
The one post above makes is extremely evident why you're so rigid, so stuck on one view of OHIO FOOTBALL and, therefore, ABSOLUTELY unwilling to consider contrary evidence, facts, information. Sad.
Everything said about the current waning of the NFL's popularity is true, with an emphasis on it's somewhat cyclical (so off huge popularity, some retreat), games are boring and we're over-saturated (who's going to care about their team if they're functionally eliminated from the playoffs after six games and unlikely to win a title for 50 years), and video-viewing has changed dramatically recently (so many outlets and flipping channels to pursue fantasy football results).
Police have a very tough jobs. No doubt about it.
But look at all the videos over the last few years of police behavior that just cannot be what we expect as a standard of police behavior.
Then, realize that we are, generally, in a more tolerant society (race, religion, color, sex, etc) than ever.
If you do, you'll have an idea of the generations and generations of police too often getting away with abusing their positions--because of intolerance and lack of possibility of video proof of same.
Good cops WANT their actions video'd.
Or, you can be such as Bcat2, stuck in your 1951 view of the world.