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NFLUK
DIR By: Wayne Ellis
Date: June 29, 2019, 6:05 am
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Hi all!
If you’re seeing this post, it means you’ve almost certainly
heard the news that NFLUK will be closing down their forum on
July 26th. Obviously we have this forum, and there’s others out
there (like UKNFLFAN), but losing the official forum for the
sport over here is hugely disappointing. I’m one of the many who
got into the sport during the big boom of the 1980’s, so I was
already well versed in all things NFL when I came across the
NFLUK forum many years later, but I have still learnt a great
deal from those I’ve interacted with, while discussing the big
games as they happen and participating in the annual 7 round
Mock Drafts have enhanced my enjoyment of the sport.
Although this place will mostly be used to host future Mock
Drafts, there’s no reason why it can’t also be used as a
functioning forum in it’s own right. It’s something that I
cobbled together in a few minutes, so I’m not pretending it’s
anything amazing and I’m not sure what (if any) limitations it
might have, but it all seems to run smooth enough (touchwood).
The big issue with the NFLUK forum closing down is that it was
where new fans of the sport looking to share their views would
have headed. Nobody is just going to stumble across places like
this on the off chance, everyone here would have learnt about it
from being invited or seeing it mentioned on NFLUK. On that
subject, if you have family members/friends who are NFL fans,
feel free to bring them onboard.
I mentioned UKNFLFAN earlier in this post, and I can really
recommend giving them a try. They have several former (and
current) NFLUK members on there, and run several NFL and non-NFL
related Fantasy games, as well as having a shoutbox which is
usually pretty busy.
It will undoubtedly be an extremely sad day when that fuckwit
Qualcomm pulls the plug on NFLUK, which I’m sure he has been
itching to do for years, but whether it’s on here, UKNFLFAN or
somewhere else, there are alternatives out there. No matter what
the morons who are the “powers that be” think, forums are a far
better place to discuss the sport than Facebook or Twitter,
where 90% of the content consists of copy/pasted links,
“hilarious” memes or schoolyard insults. It’s just a crying
shame that at a time when the NFL’s popularity over here is
thriving, they continue to undermine the loyal fans in every way
possible...
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Re: NFLUK
DIR By: Moriaty
Date: July 1, 2019, 9:47 am
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I for one was gobsmacked. I mean I know they've been slowly
killing the forum for years but I had that down as incompetence
rather than an actual plan? Personally I think it's pretty
fucking dismal when a forum like this one can be put together
with whatever is out there in terms of shareware and the multi
million pound NFL can't keep one going where you can even be
sure of logging in. Frankly, it's a disgrace.
I had a quick look at the Facebook site. It made me feel
slightly sick. The video about teams seasons in film clips
didn't even make any sense? It's not for me.
NFLFAN looks OK so I'll be on there, at least for a while.
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