Posted on 12/03/2016 10:57:12 PM PST by righttackle44
When I called my father back home in Oregon on a recent Sunday, he rattled off his thoughts about the election, the health of his two dogs and queries about holiday plans. But, as the child of a sports-loving house (Go, Ducks!), I was most surprised by what my dad wasn’t talking about on Sunday — football.
He’s not alone in his waning interest. This season, ratings for professional football are down 27 percent across all of the major networks: ESPN, Fox, NBC and CBS, according Forbes. The decline in the ratings underscores a bigger truth that no one wants to face: Nothing lasts forever. And that includes the popularity of professional football, which now may be experiencing the slow, inevitable crumble of a Roman-style empire.
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What you said and the fact that the ‘sport’ is designed to utterly destroy the human body that is.
I’m boycotting the NFL until players are not allowed to play football if they can’t stand for our National Anthem.
The other thing is once people realize they can get stuff done on Sunday and it is no longer part of their habit, the ratings will continue to tank.
After yet another year of watching the Gators’ anemic offense, I’m all for doing away with football.
If owners don’t get rid of the kneelers, ain’t nobody gonna watch the Steelers...or anyone else for that matter.
I can watch football and still get stuff done on the weekends. Imagine that.
This house will always watch the Steelers.
It was just a rhyme. Now, if they kneel during the anthem and you keep watching them, well, that is, of course, for you to decide.
Jeeze, it’s not the Roman Empire. The teams this year just aren’t very good. The only really good game I’ve seen this year was KC V. Denver. That was a great game, especially since Denver lost.
It really has been a boring season.
By then, nobody will be able to afford to buy more than one seat.
Too many players getting too much money, including baseball and basketball. I’ll allow a couple million over the year for wear and tear. They have endorsements. I have bills.
If they kneel, which I doubt, then of course.
The ####ing budweiser commercials with gay marriage and transgender pushing.
Now some new f...t commercial about patriotism being more than loving America but loving diversity also.
espn’s liberal bull####.
Who the #### thought it was a GREAT idea to go after the gay/transgender viewership? All 3.
And the women empowerment commercials. Good luck with that. Cause that’s what guys love to see.
Pander to everyone except your base. Knock yourself out.
I LOVE football but it’s just a game and I’m glad budweiser had to rush “macho” commercials into production because their f....t commercials with seth rogan (used to like, now hate) have sent sales tumbling.
And the Coors commercial saying “we dont do politics, just beer” or something along those lines was great!! No more bud in this house. Ever.
NEVER again Target. Never again Bud. The Sicilian in me allows no forgiveness for their deviant decisions.
Baseball on the other hand is doing well.
Football should guarantee players contracts, the owners are scumbags and deserve everything that’s coming their way..
MLS will never make it in the US. It isn’t in our nature to like it. If football falls UFC will rise to take it’s place.
20 years from now, what's the ratings gonna be?
I think all the injury crap is just a liberal weenie fantasy.
The real reason it sucks more is because it stopped being like it was in the 70s. Then it was just real men, playing a cool game and little else. The Super Bowl has become a joke, a caricature of itself.
The halftime Vegas style overproduced extravaganzas are annoying. The guitar playing football robots on TV. Way too many commercials. Unsportmanslike crap like icing the kicker. Instant play review on every other play. Why not just take the calls and breaks as they come? And its a bunch of unpatriotic thugs with long dreadlock hair hanging out of their helmets. Games every other day of the week. Games in London. And ESPN is a whole other story.
They have just overplayed their hand. Give me Cowboys and Steelers from the 70s. That was football worth watching.
This thread was about football. Nobody cares about soccer. Its a boring communist European sport, and its boring.
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