General Discussion

The golden goose is already wounded, a strike would kill it.

I am a football fan, have always been a football fan, will always be a football fan. I go to the bar on Sunday to watch the game with friends, every week, same bar for 5 years. The local team, the Houston Texans, is exciting this year because of the rookie. The number of people at the bar has dropped to the point that they are considering opening at normal hours on Sunday, 2pm.

This Sunday the Texans played at 7:30pm. I stopped in around 2pm as the Astros (baseball) are in the playoffs. All TV's were on baseball, no football anywhere. After the Astros the Cowboys (football) were on, usually draws 10+ Cowboys fans. The next baseball game was put on at the patrons request. No football on any TV. Second baseball game ended, crowd pretty much left. Kickoff for the Texans at 7:30 saw me and two other people ...

A usual Sunday night game, without the local team playing, would have 25+ watching.

Guy next to me asked if he could play the jukebox, he was allowed. This is taboo on Sunday, the jukebox is never on. They changed the channel off the game by middle of the first quarter after two couples came in an said turn it off or we're out. I went home and did not turn it on ... I fell asleep.

Strike? NFL dead. It is dying right now. Bars turning the TV off football on football days is going to kill the ad revenue, any other blow to the game to piss off fans will be fatal.