Posted on 09/15/2018 5:40:24 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
America’s Team may still be America’s Team, but America’s Team isn’t drawing the same kind of eyeballs in their home market.
Via Barry Horn, formerly of the Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys generated a Week One rating of 28.2 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for their road game at Carolina. That’s the lowest number since the Cowboys produced a 25.2 in 2009.
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A laugh riot!
Have not watched an NFL game in years and do not miss it one bit. Bunch of rich jerks wearing pink who think they are “heroes” for kneeling.
And I'm telling you the typical fan today plays fantasy football, maybe more than one 'league'.
They wear that remote out...clicking from game to game, never staying put. And that was my point.
When your 'team' is comprised of teams from 16 different teams....what are YOU going to watch? ;)
Easy there, Spartacus.
LOL! Oh...so because we happen to have a different take ...suddenly it's me with an "agenda"?
Bless your heart. Run along.
We are not boycotting. We have moved on to other things.
The NFL had a chance to shut this down but they didn't. They ruined the sport. The thought of watching it now makes me want to vomit.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/12/what-the-nfls-ratings-look-like-after-the-first-week-of-games/
Total viewership for Week 1 of the new NFL season came in at 113.97 million, down just 1 percent from the same week a year ago.
I think it's the opposite. These ratings are being pumped as much as possible by those who have BILLIONS to lose when people don't tune in. The networks and the league were clearly trying to cover the rating decline last season. This season it's going to get harder and harder.
The reality is the ratings are more likely much worse than is being reported.
My gut feeling is the NFL has lost 30 percent of it's audience. It will be the death of the NFL as I don't see any way to reverse this trend.
Forbes lays it out nicely.
The NFL’s viewership will likely drop during the 2018-2019 season, potentially surpassing the 10% decline it experienced last season, which many fans and some pundits wrongly attributed to the controversy over player protests during the National Anthem.
As I wrote last fall, the NFL has more pressing issues such as fans’ concerns about the quality of the NFL’s “product’ and the many teams in major media markets such as the New York Jets, New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears that have played poorly in recent years.
The confusion over the rules defining a “catch’ doesn’t help and neither does the negative publicity surrounding bad behavior by some NFL players. Let’s not forget the lingering concern over the link between playing football and neurological problems. Many parents, including me, who played tackle football when they were children are refusing to let their sons and daughters participate in the sport.
Certainly, the controversy over the National Anthem is a distraction, but like I said before, the NFL’s audience would have declined “regardless of whether former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick stood, kneeled or performed cartwheels while the National Anthem played.”
Yep. And even if you try to ignore the politics of the thing (I can't, not really) you still have a marketing disaster of the first order. It isn't the current numbers that the advertisers are looking at so much as the trend. If they're being asked to sign multi-year multi-million dollar contracts for air time they aren't going to be happy at any decline in viewership, however small at any one increment. Most of those contracts have buyback clauses and free air time in the event it gets below a certain threshold. You can bet the advertisers are watching this very closely.
Most of them appear not to care very much about any stigma attached to the association of their products with what some ex-fans (me) consider hateful and anti-American behavior. They will if it becomes undeniable that it's a factor, which is one reason we are likely never to read about this in the media until after it happens, because the media lose out as well. They're no objective observers in this thing, much the opposite, they're major stakeholders, and they're not going to hurt themselves by negative reporting.
This could be. It's sad that football is gone for so many of us. I loved watching football in the fall. I loved the "sound" of football and would watch any team. I just wanted to see a good game. Al Micheals and Collinsworth were the sound of football and the seasons changing.
I don't have a choice. The America hating million dollar NFL thugs ruined it. Like Rush said. The thrill is gone.
Us too. Just having a game on as background noise, the windows open and cool air. It made fall something to enjoy and look forward to after a long hot Texas summer.
Unwatchable games + kneeling = lower ratings.
The economy has taken a major upswing under President Trump, so something else must be responsible for the fall in NFL viewership.
Maybe it's global warming...
toe the line
Daughters?
What in the wide world of sports is up with that??
/Slim Pickens
I blame honkies.
toe the line
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For those of us with nautical backgrounds, tow the line seems more appropriate. :)
Jones spent about $1 billion of his own money on the stadium. Arlington paid for the infrastructure around the stadium. The city has reaped tons of benefits from the new hotels, restaurants, shopping areas, etc.
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