Posted on 11/16/2016 10:41:14 AM PST by C19fan
Perhaps panic over the NFL’s evaporating television audience was premature. On the first post-election Sunday, the league’s ratings surged thanks to two marquee match ups. According to NBC, Seahawks-Patriots drew the network its biggest Week 10 Sunday Night Football audience in five years. Meanwhile in Fox’s late-afternoon window, the Cowboys’ 35-30 win over the Steelers was the NFL’s highest-rated individual game this year. However it’s indisputable that NFL viewership lagged over the season’s first half. Entering Week 9, industry experts peg total NFL consumption down about 14 percent. In a memo sent from the NFL office in early October, the league admitted “a confluence of events” was affecting ratings, blaming “unprecedented interest” in the presidential election as the largest culprit. The trend also raised a different question: Why did college football broadcasts not suffer the same drop?
(Excerpt) Read more at mmqb.si.com ...
Because they play football.
The NFL shows itself to be equivocal adn unsupportive when it comes to patriotism.
College football show itself to still be pro-America.
- Roll Tide -
Most NFL teams are in cities, most cities are dominated by Democrats, the Democrats were the ones most freaked out about the election?
Most college FB teams are in small towns and the fan bases are rural, and those fans were not at all agitated over the election.
It’s a hypothesis!
They are less of a market commodity and more of a home-town event. You go to see your children play in college, or your local college team.
NFL is sports AND entertainment. And people are less inclined to be entertained by people who insult them.
Sports Journolists agree.. with the rest of the Journolistic Cabal.
I say its all due to Global Warming
College football is a wholesome sport with wholesome fans, and the players are wholesome college students, as are the cheerleaders. It’s a joy to watch.
Yup. That and George W Bush..
College football games have more spirit and excitement than NFL games have. I like the bands. I like the cute young girls at the games. There are no black militants raising their clenched fists on the sidelines. If you ask anybody who wagers on football they will tell you that college football with the big point spreads is where the fun is. College football has some better rules, for example a missed field goal landing on the field of play can be returned for a touch down (remember that one, you Auburn fans). I could go on and on.
Indeed. I came to the realization a few years ago - there is nothing new in the NFL. Its all become rather boring - the law-book referees, the canned game announcers, the thug players, creeping politicization and activism of all kinds, and of course, the never-ending commercials.
I don’t hate the NFL, but I’ve realized I can easily do without it.
NFL needs new leadership. Then it must inform its players to find the clubhouse or stand at attention during the National Anthem. Any disrespect is a major fine and suspension without pay.
This has to be instituted now or I won’t watch the regular or post season games. Period.
The college game is far more enjoyable, better overall game experience, no salary cap/contract distractions, no politics from the players, rivalries mean more (Even with conference changes.) and just being in the top 25 means something to a sizable segment of the fan base.
There’s no comparison; I have been able to watch just about any contest between top 25 teams and find myself rooting for one or the other because of “reason” real or imagined and enjoyed watching the game just because it was being played and played well.
I could care less about any NFL game that doesn’t have the Steelers playing and this season and last; I’ve found myself increasingly challenged to care about the black and gold.
I hate to disagree, but let’s see how the NFL ratings come in at the end of this month. I couldn’t give a rats a$$ about people like Kapernicus.
Ratings are down more because of the election and the very serious problem ESPN is facing. Couple that with crappy prime time games (which have been the norm thus far) and you get what we’re seeing. There is nothing wrong with the NFL and I think we’ll see that soon enough.
RTR
* Endless commercials
* Endless penalties
* Too many teams = talent dilution
I am sick of seeing the choreographed humping and thrusting dance moves put on in the end zone by the so-called “professionals”...
If done in the college game, it results in a penalty...
Bear Bryant once said “When you score, act like you’ve been there before...”
Yeah right... There’s always Eli on the radio-my preferred way to keep up with games during dove season.
ROLL TIDE ROLL
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.