Why I am a FORMER Fan of the NFL

Yes you read that right. I no longer count myself a fan of the NFL. In years past I would watch every game on Sunday, Monday and the occasional Thursday night game. but I can honestly say I have not watched a complete game this season and probably have not watched, combined, two full games. It just is not fun anymore.
Here is a sidebar that will help drive my point home. About 10 years ago i started to watch NASCAR. I will wait until the laughter dies down. OK, are we ready to continue. Anyways i watched NASCAR because it was fun. On any given race day anybody could have won. Guys could get pissed off at each other and smash their cars into each other. It was fun to listen to drivers bash each other after the race on live television. But then something happened. And i believe if I am not mistaken that "something" was the introduction of Nextel into the equation. Now I am not blaming Nextel specifically but the idea of Nextel and that idea is the over sponsorship of NASCAR. And it has now happened to the NFL.
See sponsors need a nice package to deliver their message to the masses. Sponsorship dollars demand that the rough edges be taken off a product before they will sign the checks. See the NFL has long been the "NoFunLeague" for several reasons: no TD celebrations, the uniform police, and the idea that parity is a good thing.
First of all we pay offensive players millions of dollars a year to score but when they actually do what their paid to do their supposed to ignore what they have just done. It's kind of like paying porn stars to have sex but then having them ignore the, ummm, end of their scene. The uniform police just create clones out of every player. In a league where "faces" are almost entirely never shown because of the helmet the uniforms become the players viable option at becoming individuals again and not just one of hundreds of players dressed just a like. The players can't have crazy hairstyles to distinguish them from other players, the individual player can not have different shoes or socks or towels or arm bands or anything that would say who they were without the name on the back.
But I personally feel like the thing that has made the NFL boring to watch is parity. Parity mandates that all teams have an equal chance at succeeding. Now this does not mean that all teams have the same talent (Just look at the Detroit Lions). But it does mean that teams get equal shares of money, equal air time, equal schedules, and equal draft chances. I was watching part of game on opening weekend. The winning team was up by 7 with 4 and a half minutes to go. They ran the clock out and won the game. All they had to do was get two first downs and let the play clock do the rest. How shitty is that? It's horrible. The NFL has decided that parity is the best because of TV ratings and keeping money in the fat wallets of their owners. Home teams win 85% of the time, no underdog ever wins, and you can always county on one or two dominate teams (Giants and Titans this year) and a few piss poor teams (Lions, Chiefs, and Bengals this year) but every other team has a chance at the playoffs. Are you kidding me? This only dilutes the product and makes it so hard to watch.