ffinmyblood
Footballguy
The younger generation of FF's will never understand where I am coming from, hopefully you older, more veteran FF's will. I have been playing FF now for going on 20 years. 16 team keeper league. When I started playing, you scored games on paper, you got box scores from the USA Today the next morning, you ONLY got points for TD's(6 pts all) and bonus points for 100+ yd. rush/rec games and 300+ passing games. In those days scoring 35-40 points was about average. Now, you can get that with one player. Oh my how the game has changed. Now you have PPR leagues, leagues where games are in there 100's(resembling an NBA game but NOT an NFL game), leagues where you actually SUBTRACT points(WTF), auction leagues(huh??), and less then 6 points for passing TD's(you've got to be kidding me). That's just to name a few of the changes. I love FF, or I should say DID love FF back when it was "your fathers FF league", and I am always "jonesing" to get into new leagues, and help other owners out that are looking to fill their leagues.
That is until I see their league rules and see the scoring and I am immediately turned off. Scores in the 100's?? I have been watching football for as long as I can remember, and I never remember one opponent scoring 100 points in a game. QB's only getting 4 points for passing TD's?? I don't ever recall seeing that in an NFL game either(did they change the rules on me and I don't know it??). Or an Auction draft, are you kidding me??( "welcome to the 2012 NFL Auction"??) And maybe most of all, all these 12 team leagues, especially in keeper leagues?? What?? Talk about LOADED teams.....Where have all the MEN gone?? Where are the 16 team keeper leagues?? The leagues that truly separate the men from the boys?? Nowhere to be found, unfortunately. thumbdown.gif
The game has changed.....and I know it's popular as ever now, but the changes I see, this veteran FF has a hard time embracing. It's sad as I LOVE the game, but it's hard for me to play anymore, since my kind of leagues don't exist anymore. And yet, the NFL hasn't changed much over the years. The names have changed, but the game hasn't as far as scoring, the draft things like that. I guess my question is, why ruin a masterpiece?? We all LOVE the NFL for what it is, it's the most popular game on the planet. We'd all be a bit bitter and angry, if the game we all love so much changed from what it is. And rightly so. That's how I feel with FF. Why all the changes?? It was fine the way it was back in the days. *sigh*
That is until I see their league rules and see the scoring and I am immediately turned off. Scores in the 100's?? I have been watching football for as long as I can remember, and I never remember one opponent scoring 100 points in a game. QB's only getting 4 points for passing TD's?? I don't ever recall seeing that in an NFL game either(did they change the rules on me and I don't know it??). Or an Auction draft, are you kidding me??( "welcome to the 2012 NFL Auction"??) And maybe most of all, all these 12 team leagues, especially in keeper leagues?? What?? Talk about LOADED teams.....Where have all the MEN gone?? Where are the 16 team keeper leagues?? The leagues that truly separate the men from the boys?? Nowhere to be found, unfortunately. thumbdown.gif
The game has changed.....and I know it's popular as ever now, but the changes I see, this veteran FF has a hard time embracing. It's sad as I LOVE the game, but it's hard for me to play anymore, since my kind of leagues don't exist anymore. And yet, the NFL hasn't changed much over the years. The names have changed, but the game hasn't as far as scoring, the draft things like that. I guess my question is, why ruin a masterpiece?? We all LOVE the NFL for what it is, it's the most popular game on the planet. We'd all be a bit bitter and angry, if the game we all love so much changed from what it is. And rightly so. That's how I feel with FF. Why all the changes?? It was fine the way it was back in the days. *sigh*
