Should NFL players have to talk to media?

This topic has 9 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 10 months ago by zn.

Viewing 10 posts - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

Author

Posts
January 26, 2015 at 2:21 pm #17418

wv
Participant

M.Lynch doesn’t want to talk to the media. NFL says he will again be fined
if he doesn’t. Plus, they dont like him making obscene end-zone gestures.

Should an NFL player have to talk to the media?

Itz super-bowl week.

Video on the Lynch issue
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/12227739/pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks-says-discuss-gestures-marshawn-lynch

w
v

January 26, 2015 at 3:01 pm #17422

Zooey
Moderator

I think they shouldn’t be allowed to talk to the media. Think of the hours and hours of boring interviews we would be spared from.

January 26, 2015 at 3:53 pm #17424

wv
Participant

Zooey wrote:

I think they shouldn’t be allowed to talk to the media. Think of the hours and hours of boring interviews we would be spared from.

What about obscene gestures?

w
v

January 26, 2015 at 4:19 pm #17425

Winnbrad
Participant

No. I wish they would ban all players from talking to the media. We’d all be better served, but the almighty dollar wouldn’t. So…

January 26, 2015 at 4:40 pm #17426

Mackeyser
Moderator

It’s all part of the corporate packaging of the game.

They don’t just want guys to play well, but they want SPOKESPEOPLE for the league.

Worse, if the player does anything to damage the league, they can be fined. So, they HAVE to do and say stuff to improve the league.

Sports is the crucible of human virtue. The distillate remains are human vice.

January 26, 2015 at 5:17 pm #17430

Dak
Participant

Yes, they should talk, unless a doctor says they have a social anxiety disorder. If you’re the NFL, you need the media. You let players clam up, and you reduce the number of happy story lines in the media and reduce exposure of your sport to the fans. You know, those reporters still have to fill copy … I think you’d rather have them doing that with little chitty-chatty stuff with the players than actually think and dig into substantive issues.

January 26, 2015 at 5:27 pm #17436

wv
Participant

Mackeyser wrote:

It’s all part of the corporate packaging of the game.

They don’t just want guys to play well, but they want SPOKESPEOPLE for the league.

Worse, if the player does anything to damage the league, they can be fined. So, they HAVE to do and say stuff to improve the league.

I’ve always been curious about how the media and the rams
go about choosing WHO is gonna talk — like, it always
seems like Chris Long and Laurinaitis get to talk a lot.
I dont see as much of the other players, but maybe
I’m wrong on that. I dunno.

w
v

January 26, 2015 at 6:28 pm #17442

Zooey
Moderator

Dak wrote:

Yes, they should talk, unless a doctor says they have a social anxiety disorder. If you’re the NFL, you need the media. You let players clam up, and you reduce the number of happy story lines in the media and reduce exposure of your sport to the fans. You know, those reporters still have to fill copy … I think you’d rather have them doing that with little chitty-chatty stuff with the players than actually think and dig into substantive issues.

Yeah, but there will always be people who WANT to talk, who want to be in front of the cameras.

A few Marshawn Lynches aside, the airwaves will still be full of guys “giving it 110% on the field, and taking it all one game at a time.”

January 27, 2015 at 8:36 am #17465

bnw
Blocked

No it should be a choice of the player not the press.

The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

Sprinkles are for winners.

January 27, 2015 at 11:50 am #17472

zn
Moderator

Or…should the media HAVE TO talk to Lynch?
Author

Posts