Posted on 09/14/2017 4:34:09 AM PDT by C19fan
Week 1 of the NFL season had plenty of important stories worth following, but maybe the most entertaining was the mostly empty stadiums in Los Angeles and Santa Clara. Both the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers had sparse crowds for their home openers, and that has not gone unnoticed by the NFL.
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I read that the problem for weekend one was hurricane Irma.
“Hitting instead of tackling - these guys hit trying to hurt the other guy and a lot times just bounce off not stopping the play.”
Similar sort of thing happened to the NHL. Years ago, taking out a man using your shoulder or your hips was an art form, particularly with guys that my Dad grew up with in the 1950s and 1960s (Bob Baun, Leo Boivin, Gilles Marotte, Marcel Bonin, etc) and even when I was a kid (Brian Glennie and Perry Miller). Nowadays, it almost always involves slamming someone into the boards and/or getting a stick or elbow into it. The helmets and shields were supposed to make the game safer by preventing those kind of injuries, but for the most part it simply created a complete disregard for the head. Concussions and back and neck injuries are now an appalling problem.
The Owners of these disgruntled naggers should sell them!
I watched the Rams game Sunday and it wasn’t just a few empty seats. That stadium easily looked half empty.
Don’t worry; this has nothing to do with the exercise of freedom of speech by compassionate and concerned players on the field during the National Anthem. Last year’s drop is viewers and ticket sales was due to the election and the Olympics. This year’s drop is due to the hurricane, and I imagine another reason will show up soon. It has nothing to do with disrespect to our flag, our anthem, our country, and our ancestors. That’s what the experts have told us. Would they lie to us?
Take a knee...Losers!
Maybe they should push much harder on leftist issues! That will solve their problem!
They should be. Football fans are NOT going to put up with the over payed "thugs" disrespecting America and the flag. Time to chuck PC and enforce some standards of discipline. That is...if they want to make a buck. Otherwise, eventually...Bye, Bye NFL.
its getting more and more difficult to justify watching a nfl game. its a bit like torture., waiting for the iittle yellow flag to fly into the screen after every play. then the replay annd a series of reviews from 6 angles while the refs huddle under a hood., I change the channel when they go to reviews., add to that the “social justice” bs and I cant help but think my sunday is better spent raking leaves.
someone should broadcast games from the 60’s and 70’s , in their entirety, real football played by badass mother f’ers, not what we see today.
I like your #2. Celebrating.
What ever happened to a player making a play and walking away like he had done it a thousand times before? They used to make plays for the team not for themselves.
Too PC! Just play the game and don’t try to cast the black players as victims of the white players and of all whites in the entire universe. And stop painting all whites as racist.
All three of the teams are in California. Coincidence?
We were at the Packers game Sunday. It was really fun! The stadium was sold out. 78,000 people in little old Green Bay.
Why can they sell out every game and places with much larger populations can’t half fill their stadium?
Bread and circuses.
They can't rein it in. These accidental billionaires are in a very tough spot.
Football is a great game to watch. I go back to NYG home games at Yankee stadium, Kyle Rote and Frank Gifford.
But the game live, like a high school or even most college games, and the game on TV, are different games.
It's TV that made the owners billionaires. But, watching the plays on TV, you can't see the whole field and you can't watch 22 athletes in motion. What you CAN watch are one-on-one high speed collisions, replayed over and over. Live, these collisions don't seem like such a big deal. On TV, they are a much more important part of the game, or, to state it better, of the show.
The owners have tumbled to the fact that at certain positions, thugs excel at generating this kind of excitement. So, slowly over about 40 years, the minor leagues (college football) have been transformed into thug finishing schools to produce the meat the NFL owners need to put on their show. College football is still fun to watch, because the vast majority of the players have zero NFL appeal and many of them, by the way, belong in college.
The UCLA QB Josh Rosen generated some heat recently when he said, "OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have".
But of course, he was right.
Now, there's nothing illegal or immoral about the thug development system the NFL owners have created. The NFL owners are billionaires, and I'm not, so they must be doing something right.
But they are now so wealthy, and move in such social circles, that they have adopted the values of the overwhelmingly Leftist entertainment and academic communities to the center of their worlds - at the expense of losing touch with the real world their fan base moves in (the same is true of the NBA, by the way).
As long as they could maintain the illusion that the members of the team would, or even could, reciprocate the admiration and respect the fans showered on them, their business would grow and prosper.
But Kaepernick (thank you, Colin) pulled away the curtain to demonstrate what low-IQ thugs think about America, the core population of America, and their values - and what this season shows clearly is that Kaepernick is by no means alone.
The NFL business model is no longer viable. When you add in the fact that football players in college who actually belong in college are copping on to the fact that getting whacked in the head repeatedly at ages 18-22 may not be such a good idea after all, and with youth football leagues starting to shrink all over - man, if you could sell NFL stock short, it would be a hell of a play, in my opinion.
I find it funny. For all the effort and diligence the NFL invests in it’s “branding” and “image”, they seem blind to the root cause of the problem. It is like CNN/MSNBC/NYT... completely befuddled about their ratings and audience. They spend money to come up with anything but the right answers.
I don’t get it. If it’s about money, you would think they could figure it out and fix it. They fine players for writing on their shoes, regardless of what it is. They fine players if they “celebrate” incorrectly after a touch down. Players get suspended and fined for behavior off the field too. But pissing off the fans and causing ticket sales, merch sales and ratings to drop is ignored?
They only put up with it because of Political Correctness. THAT’S it. And THAT is killing their product.
If, say after one of these protests, masses of fans IN the seats get up and leave, that’ll be the death knell for the NFL.
The tender compassionate liberals gloss right over Kaperneck and blame concussions for the loss in viewers.
No one I know who watches football (I do not care about sports) gives one wit about concussions but they do care about privileged folks playing a game whining about how bad America is.
Football and politics don’t mix.
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