Quote:Comes down to tracking and ads honestly. You cannot draw the data or expose fans to ads like you can on social media. Congratulations, your patronage has been sold 

 

Exactly. They won't come outright and say that. Because they know it's a major turn off. But that's apart of the equation. The ads in general have flooded every facet of social media now. First it was YouTube. Now it's on FaceBook. It's on Snapchat, etc. The marketer goes where the market is. And right now it's social media at a major level. Or just the internet in general. 

 

I've even recently dropped my DirecTV package which was running me close to $220 per month for SlingTV because me and wife spend more time browsing around the internet for something to watch than we did on cable. And we're paying maybe $75.00 a month now between SlingTV through our ROKU and then Netflix, Hulu and CBS All access. We've already seen a huge difference in advertising though. Sure, it's not a 30 second commercial but it's still flashy ads and shorter breaks just more spread out. 

 

It's a joke. But that's how they get you. Curious to see now if other NFL teams are doing this and dropping their team forums. It's a shame. You've got a lot of old heads that won't conform to new age social media (I don't blame them either, it's full of a bunch of [BAD WORD REMOVED] you have to sift through anyway to maybe find a nice golden needle in a [BAD WORD REMOVED] show of a haystack). 

 

But this forum was pretty damn good compared to where I've been and looked around. A lot of forums around the NFL seemed very out dated or very old school. This place always seemed just a step up or a step or two ahead of everyone else. Such a shame they're closing this down. 

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