Originally Posted by Rob

I'm a huge NFL fan, but it's starting to wear thin on me. 1) the amount of commercials they take. It takes 3 1/2 hours to watch a 60 minute game. It's like this: a play, a play, a play, a play...five commercials. A play, a timeout, five commercials. Then add the 2 minute warning, official's timeouts, challenges, injury timeouts, TV timeouts (they really have these), and so on. I usually Tivo the games and play back without commercials.

And 2) the rule changes are turning it into a pussy sport, but also letting the refs dictate the outcome. A guy bumps into a receiver and it's holding with an automatic first down? You can call holding on every single play, but they only call them for big plays or critical ones.

And don't get me started on the lack of hitting. Penalized for tacking a QB is stretching it a bit. Pretty soon they're going to put flags on the QB and if you touch him, you're automatically suspended for 10 games.