Nation Growing Increasingly Distrustful Of NFL Experts

[madinmaryland]

NEW YORK—Football viewers across the nation announced Tuesday that a lackluster performance, inaccurate predictions, and a failure to acknowledge shortcomings have led to an increased distrust in so-called NFL experts. "First they had Green Bay over Arizona, then Dallas over Minnesota, and of course they just couldn't see the Jets winning," said 46-year-old New Jersey resident Tom Nicholson, who called on authorities to investigate how long NFL experts have been misleading the American public. "I don't know who to believe. The more I think about it, the more I realize that these self-appointed 'experts' are wrong a staggering percentage of the time. Why, I ask you, does all that pregame analysis become inconsequential once the game actually begins?" A majority of Americans also noted that in instances where analysts are correct, as is often the case with Cris Collinsworth and Merril Hoge, the commentators are so insufferably smug that it makes them unwatchable.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/nation_growing_increasingly

[Kingofalldems]

1. The Onion is absolutely right--Hours of blabbing every Sunday

[madinmaryland]

2. "the commentators are so insufferably smug that it makes them unwatchable"

The Onion in satire actually told the truth about all the "announcers"

[JonLP24]

3. Wow

I thought the story was 100% true until I saw the link. Usually I can tell it's satire by the first or second sentence but it had me going in that paragraph. I guess the "authorities" word should have filled me in but I was fooled anyways.

[madinmaryland]

4. It really is spot on! Yeah, I listened to about 8 hours of talk radio

a couple of weekends ago. They were all off on their prognostications.

[fishwax]

5. I love seeing The Onion take on sports

:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

6. The NFL sucks anyway.

They need to adopt a BCS-style system. I can't believe they still rely on the antiquated notion of using games to decide which teams are better.

[Condem]

7. Expert texpert choking smoker, don't you think the joker laughs at you?

Coo-coo ka-choo.

[madinmaryland]

8. ??

:shrug:

[Condem]

9. Man, you should of seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe.

[madinmaryland]

10. ??

:shrug: