Sigh … you remind me of those who thought colorizing classic films was a great idea because they’d finally see the original colors. No. What they saw were random colors inserted by overgrown kids with high-tech coloring books. One of these clueless kids actually gave Frank Sinatra–famously known as “Ol’ Blue Eyes”–brown eyes.

Films are scored by artists whose pay scale reflects their skill. On a two-hour film, it can take hundreds of hours to compose, arrange, and record the music to accompany each individual scene, then to digitally edit the music where it should go. Even if scorers use existing music, they have to get permissions for each song from artists, songwriters, and recording companies.

Fox could not possibly afford to pay the costs of 16 three-hour+ games a week on the same scale that a television show or film is scored. Nor could games be scored that way. They’re unpredictable live events happening in real time. The only option is canned Gameboy-type sound effects and Muzak plugged in willy-nilly by some techie in the control room.

This lunacy should have been stopped immediately by the NFL. Unfortunately, as each week passes, the commissioner proves how completely ineffective he is at acting in the best interest of the league, players, or fans.

Who ever is picking the music obviously knows nothing about what football is about. The sounds there using dont relate to the game at all. Football is high stakes, pressure packed, give it your all, put everthing on the line, nothing else matters, glorious, classic, triumphant type of game and the music has to relay that.

They seemed to get it right with the last score. That kinda fit the idea of what football is about. the other ones were terrible. They need to get a professional movie scorer in to do it or its going to come off like it should be in a disney movie like the 1st couple did.

What they need to do is find the guys like the ones that scored Invinceable, Rudy, Million Dollar Baby, Friday Night Lights, Varsity Blue, Any Given Sunday, Cinderella Man, and Ali guys who have a background in sports scoring. You cant just get the guy who scores Fringe or House for ya to do it.

Americans take there football seriously. If your going to do something thats going to have such a big impact on the way we watch the game, you better get the very best people available to do it and it better be perfect. Or your going to piss off A LOT of people.

Is there any more tangible proof that their boy Goodell has completely lost his freaking mind?

What is the matter and Goodell and his cast of clown? He just seems to be getting dumber and dumber every day.

—Uh, it is new. Going to commercial is fine. As are tracks for highlights/specials. But during a live game? It has no purpose and is distracting. They also used crappy music…take it from a music teacher.

Oh… and those fake giant scoreboards super imposed on the stadiums is really cheesy too.

—Wow…agree with every single point. I want that robot to be killed by all the team mascots, which each burying a piece of his body in different corners of the globe.

—And those scoreboards? The first time I saw one, I was like: “Wow…that is one big damn scoreboard, sirrrr!” I apparently had been drinking.

Surely the NFL has a say in how its games are telecast. Can’t Goodell do anything about this? He’s got to be good for something.

Oh… and those fake giant scoreboards super imposed on the stadiums is really cheesy too.

Especially the robot thing. What the hell is that?

We fans are the ones who made this sport into the national frenzy and media monster that it is, and we’ll be the ones who bring it back down to earth when we start re-discovering other facets of life on Sunday afternoons in the fall because we’re no longer interested in a sport that is no longer interested in us. It happened to baseball, it happened to basketball, and it will happen with the NFL. Goodell has totally lost touch with the fans – the sport’s ‘best interests’ are no longer us but are whatever the corporation decides.

Based on blog comments, office talk, and every other source of NFL speak I see or hear, the vast majority of fans don’t want international teams, don’t want London Super Bowls, don’t want PSLs, don’t want 18-game seasons, and don’t want a soundtrack to a live game – but what we want doesn’t matter one bit to Goodell & Company. The NFL office is turning into one of those all-powerful evil corporations that are the bad guys in so many movies these days. Some legacy you’ll leave when you cash out, Roger – the man who oversaw the first genuine downturn in the NFL’s popularity… Of course I imagine ‘cash’ing out is what it’s all about for you, and frankly I don’t hold that against you – just spare us the naked hypocrisy of acting like you really care about what the fans want.

please.

Well, duh, the guy is either dead or 80 years old and holed up in a cheap motel somehwere, afraid to go outside.