I'm all for hearing a good interview. I'm against the league telling the players they have to do interviews. No value added.

 

I love a good interview that isn't riddled with cliches.

It's outdated, for sure. If you want to ask an athlete tweet at them. They are way more exposed now than they used to be, when interviews mattered.

I'm all for hearing a good interview. I'm against the league telling the players they have to do interviews. No value added.

 

I love a good interview that isn't riddled with cliches.

 

Perfectly sums up the way I feel about this.

Say my hypothetical played out. That would effectively take over the throne from the Laettner shot as the iconic image in NCAA hoops history. To not have those guys' thoughts about that game, that massive moment, on record, would be a crime to future generations who would want to go back and learn the history about it. Young babies and toddlers now clothed in the blue and white, born into generations of UK fandom.

 

I call foul on those dismissing the interest factor among fans about what their favorite players' thoughts are. How many Twitter followers does LeBron have?

 

I obviously remember the Laettner play and it is replayed every year, but I couldn't tell you if I saw an interview afterward and I sure don't remember it now.

I don't watch the interviews or press conferences after the games anyway unless something happened during the game I want to hear about.

 

Could care less about media day the week of the SB or any post game interviews after any regular season game either. I don't watch the games for the personalities, I watch them for the game itself.

 

If I had to listen to Marvin Lewis or Bill Belichick press conferences everyday I'd shoot myself.

 

For me, I wouldn't stop watching, but it would be far less interesting to me.

Obviously it would lose appeal to some. That hurts their bottom line.

 

What was cool was when Richard Sherman knocked down the pass from Colin Kaepernick in the NFC title game last year. But was even more cool was his reaction and calling Crabtree mediocre. People did not mute that screen when he was on tv and ignore it. So I do not want to hear, "I never care what an athlete says." That is bull.

 

But, yes. I would still watch.

I'm all for hearing a good interview. I'm against the league telling the players they have to do interviews. No value added.

 

I love a good interview that isn't riddled with cliches.

Now this I can buy. And by virtue of the system in place it is mostly what you get.

Obviously it would lose appeal to some. That hurts their bottom line.

 

What was cool was when Richard Sherman knocked down the pass from Colin Kaepernick in the NFC title game last year. But was even more cool was his reaction and calling Crabtree mediocre. People did not mute that screen when he was on tv and ignore it. So I do not want to hear, "I never care what an athlete says." That is bull.

 

But, yes. I would still watch.

 

Which gets us back to the point that the vast majority have been making in both this thread and the Lynch thread. Making guys who don't want to talk is stupid. It accomplishes nothing. There are plenty of guys who love nothing more than to have a microphone in their face. Go talk to them.

I'm all for hearing a good interview. I'm against the league telling the players they have to do interviews. No value added.

 

I love a good interview that isn't riddled with cliches.

 

That is what gets players into trouble.

Yes

That is what gets players into trouble.

 

It's the pointless rock-and-a-hard-place scenario of NFL media accessibility:

 

Management: You must talk to the media.

 

Player: Great! I had a few thoughts on current player safety rules and the upcoming CBA negotiations and...

 

Management: You must say nothing of substance.

 

Player: Then I don't really have much to talk about and probably shouldn't meet with anyone today then.

 

Management: No you must talk to the media.

Don't like interviews. Most of the players can't put a compound sentence together. I's murder to my ears trying listen to them or trying to figure out just what the hell is being said, know what umm sayin'?

I believe in God and all, but it does get tiresome listening to some of these guys believe God is the reason they caught that 3rd and 19 pass for a TD. Really hate to break it to some of these guys but I doubt very seriously that God really cares if they are playing a cover 2 or not on Sundays.

It's the pointless rock-and-a-hard-place scenario of NFL media accessibility:

 

Management: You must talk to the media.

 

Player: Great! I had a few thoughts on current player safety rules and the upcoming CBA negotiations and...

 

Management: You must say nothing of substance.

 

Player: Then I don't really have much to talk about and probably shouldn't meet with anyone today then.

 

Management: No you must talk to the media.

 

That's it. Or he starts swearing and/or says something totally off color and offends half of society.

If player interviews stopped, I probably wouldn't notice.

 

Heck, if the NFL network ceased operations and all of the Sunday/Monday/Thursday pregame shows went away, I wouldn't care either.