Is This the End of the NFL?

NY Mag ^ | November 25, 2017 | Will Leitch

[EdnaMode]

The NFL will never recover after the debacle of the last two seasons.

[discostu]

Still the highest rated of the major sports. They’ll adjust to their new normal.

[blam]

I'm done with the NFL, FOREVER!

[fungoking]

Dozens of players were protesting the first two weeks of the season, but no one seemed to care … until Trump’s weekend tweetstorm from his golf club back in September.

False. Trump just acknowledged what was already happening with fans leaving.

[blam]

- Roll Tide -

[MarvinStinson]

Yes.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Is This the End of the NFL?

Not the end - but their peak has come and gone. They will continue to decline steadily. The only real hope they had was to replace Roger Goodell with a commissioner capable of recognizing who the NFL's fan base is and trying to win back those fans. Instead, the owners are about to award Goodell a new contract paying him nearly $50 million annually and providing him with a private jet.

Expect Goodell to continue his virtue-signaling to groups who have never watched football and are interested in it solely to score left-wing points. Expect him also to take away home games from NFL fans to play games in London, Mexico City and other foreign cities in an attempt to build up NFL merchandising abroad. Expect continued gimmicks like the idiotic "color rush" uniforms, and cash grabs like the shabby Thursday night games, which are usually sloppy and badly played because players haven't had time to rest and frequently lead to injuries.

All a dismal come-down since the glory days of the NFL's rise during the '70s, '80s and '90s.

[FreedBird]

NFL will have trouble changing such a negative image of the brand.

[Balding_Eagle]

but no one seemed to care … until Trump’s weekend tweet storm from his golf club back in September.

When I got to that part I realized the writer has been so out of touch with real Americans for such a long time that there was no point in reading further.

[marron]

Its done. If you have to force them to stand, they needn’t bother.

[freefdny]

Exactly. The deplorables cared about the insult to the flag and our country from the start. Trump spoke up about it and that’s just something NY Mag doesn’t want to see.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I have to agree with Costas, and it strikes me that Jerry Jones could be provoking his head on collision with Goodell in order to get a buyout at current prices. Look at the Donald Sterling estate - they got $2B for a team which had been valued at half that before the controversy. Jones’ interest is valued in the vicinity of $5B. Maybe he wants out - and the first out will get the best deal in the declining market for pro football.

[Candor7]

Is This the End of the NFL?>>>

I hope so.

Rather watch college football instead of these race baiting pimps. They are unAmerican.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The current state of the NFL has made the XFL look downright respectable...

[Doche2X2]

I say this is complete BS. Basketball is boring and one-dimensional, where football and baseball are three-dimensional. If the NBA players start protesting, fans will leave them too. People watch sports to get away from “all things political”.

[kagnew]

“Exactly. The deplorables cared about the insult to the flag and our country from the start. Trump spoke up about it and that’s just something NY Mag doesn’t want to see.”

The NFL killed the goose that laid the golden egg. And personal GREED will do that every time.

[LouAvul]

No kidding. Those single digit morons running around on the field will play for minimum wage if that's all they can get. Because they're too stupid to find any other work.

I personally feel that it's obscene to pay those thugs such obscene amounts of money for playing a game. I haven't supported or watched any sports for probably twenty years.

[EdnaMode]

Agreed. I never thought I’d see the day when that would happen.

[doorgunner69]

Typical NYC liberal excretory garbage.

POS had to get in his obligatory "It is Trump's Fault" quip to keep the editors happy.

[Kirkwood]

I stopped watching NFL games at the end of the 2014-15 season. I saw where things were heading over the last 10 years as did many others.