Posted on 10/08/2016 5:23:06 AM PDT by C19fan
Well it might have something to do with pro football games becoming unwatchable. Between the wannabe female reporters everywhere, the incessant commercial breaks, and the interminable “instant replay” breaks, who can stand more than 30 minutes of a game?
These items you mention are part of a confluence of events.
Why do games now take 3 1/2 hours to play, instead of 3 hours?? I figure the additional 1/2 hour is due to commercials and replay breaks in the action.
It feels like there are more commercials. We go to a commercial after every touchdown or field goal, then come back for the kickoff, then go to a commercial again right after the kickoff. They didn’t used to do that years ago.
The girl reporters on the sideline seem out of place to me. They don’t add anything to the game. When you hear some of what they say, it’s clear that many don’t know a lot about football. They don’t bring any big insights into things. So why did the powers that be decide that girl reporters are needed????
And why do replay breaks take so long, and seemingly there are so many such breaks??? Why do they use replay to simply confirm some plays which aren’t really in doubt???
Given where the ratings are actually dipping (prime time, day time ratings are flush with last year) I think they’re right. We’ll see when the election is over and the distractions lessen.
I have not watched so much as a single second of football of any kind this season. The last straw for me was the disrespect shown to the national anthem, not only by the highly paid players, but the implicit support of them by the league. But, my decision to drop the NFL was a long-time building: the thugs, the pink shoes and pink everything, the commercials shown during broadcasts, the commentators in the booths and their inane commentary, the incessant rule changes to the game itself, the lack of respect for the game, and more.
I used to turn on the games on Sunday afternoons as a means of escape from, even if only for a few hours, the growing insanity in our society. But now the NFL is clearly part of that insanity. Add me to the growing numbers of people who have quit watching the NFL.
I have better things to to with my time.
a confluence? a confluence? more like a deluge of garbage and crap.. just hike the damn ball.
It’s Goodell’s lie, he can tell it how he wants...lol
Dummies
Has the NFL decided what a “Catch” is yet ?
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
They really ARE in denial, aren't they? Actually, I think they know it, but PC is keeping them from saying publicly, what they think privately. They know exactly what is going on. Screw them.
I think your dismissal of the Rasmussen poll on why people are watching NFL TV broadcasts is wrong, though.
While the Presidential election is a factor, you are completely dismissing the fact voters--already bombarded with political news (and increasingly political advertising!) 24/7 now--just want to watch an NFL game where such partisan politics are put aside for a few hours. For such partisan politics to be so evident during an NFL game is a HUGE turnoff to TV viewers, and that's why viewership is way down.
Also, I think your view is seriously skewed by where you have live ever since you graduated from Eastern Washington University. Look at where you lived for long periods: Las Vegas, strongly influenced by liberal Los Angeles; Tampa, FL, the place where many people from liberal-leaning New York City retire there or have second homes there; Portland, OR, a major bastion of liberalism; West Hartford, CT, strongly influenced by liberal-leaning New York City and Boston; and now living in liberal-leaning Los Angeles itself. In short, your world view is mostly Left-leaning to start with. One wonders would your world view be not so far Left if you had worked in a city in the center of the country like Kansas City, MO or in Texas earlier in your broadcasting career?
A large number of Americans are tiring of being looked down on by the people living on the East Coast and West Coast--that's why the candidacy of Donald Trump has gotten HUGE political traction. Trump has become a political "rock star" just like Barack Obama was in 2008. Indeed, if Trump does win, it will finally show the gigantic rift between the "elites" who live on the coasts and the middle class that have been left behind in the rest of the country.
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