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Bad Combination: NFL Losing Viewership Among Older, and Younger Demographics
Breitbart ^ | January 30, 2018 | Dylan Gwinn

Posted on 01/31/2018 7:41:23 AM PST by C19fan

A couple weeks ago, we learned that the NFL is increasingly unpopular amongst older viewers. Fast-forward a couple weeks, and we learn that younger viewers don’t particularly care for the league either. The Public Religion Research Institute recently released the findings of a poll which analyzed fan interest in football across different age groups. The results of that poll, will not sit well with the NFL.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: football; nfl; sports
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#BoycottNFL! Get Woke, Go Broke.
1 posted on 01/31/2018 7:41:23 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Older viewers...

Younger viewers...

What other demographics are there?


2 posted on 01/31/2018 7:44:03 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: C19fan

Send a few more millions to BLM.....can’t go broke fast enough for me....


3 posted on 01/31/2018 7:44:27 AM PST by Hogblog
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They’ve alienated all of us with the kneeling.

They can’t possibly become big enough SJW’s to impress that younger crowd.

One in boat, one on the dock. They’re toast.


4 posted on 01/31/2018 7:44:46 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don’t...


5 posted on 01/31/2018 7:46:22 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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How can I join the #BoycottNFL! movement, when I don’t watch football to begin with?


6 posted on 01/31/2018 7:48:50 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Hogblog

And be sure to buy Michael Bennett’s “Me Hate Whitey” book!! Great Kwanza gift!


7 posted on 01/31/2018 7:49:57 AM PST by GnuThere
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These days, I would rather watch a high school football game than an NFL game.


8 posted on 01/31/2018 7:52:14 AM PST by rdcbn
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We have 43 million foreign-born in this country. Immigrants and their children drive 80% of our population growth. American football is a niche sport compared to soccer. The changing demographics along with the Left’s demonization of football (concussions, injuries, etc.) will help kill off the sport. Add to that the suppuration of the NFL by the social justice warriors and their anti-American actions and you have a dying sport.


9 posted on 01/31/2018 7:52:34 AM PST by kabar
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To: WayneS
What other demographics are there?

Older people that identify as young people..?

Really?

10 posted on 01/31/2018 7:54:58 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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FRanken baby photo?


11 posted on 01/31/2018 7:56:23 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: C19fan

Younger people aren’t gravitating to football, they are more interested in their phones, and their phones are probably more interesting.

Older people are falling away because the game has changed for the worse, and due to the protests.


12 posted on 01/31/2018 7:57:09 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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Our youngest is 38 I see a lot of european football fans in his group (soccer)


13 posted on 01/31/2018 7:58:21 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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The NFL may think they can get away with dissing us formerly NFL fan oldsters but they are wrong.

People live a lot longer these days, and someone in their sixties and seventies will be able to watch TV (and _not_ watch the NFL) a lot longer than Goodell will have his contract.

We oldsters also will have plenty of time to harass the NFL advertisers.

The NFL is just seeing the early storm-clouds..Goodell has no clue what is coming at him.


14 posted on 01/31/2018 8:06:09 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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“What other demographics are there?”

That mythical late 20’s to mid 40’s group the tv polling groups and ad buyers seek. Many of the millennials don’t watch normal tv and get their product knowledge from the internet and other millennials via their smart phones/IPads.

How much American Football tv games and endless talk shows do the legals and illegals from Mexico and Central America tune into?

The television ad people are facing demographic problems with certain groups like the printed media has for a decade plus. Zero of our younger relatives/friends from 20 something to early 50’s read newspapers nor subscribe to them. Most don’t subscribe to any type of magazine.


15 posted on 01/31/2018 8:21:24 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!?)
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Fox gets Thursday Night Football package for next five years. Sources peg deal at more than $660 million average per year. Per game average on TNF: 2014-15 (CBS): $37.5 million 2016-17 (CBS/NBC): $45 million 2018-22 (FOX): $60 million+

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-wins-rights-to-nfl-thursday-night-games-in-five-year-deal-1517414094?mod=e2twSo


16 posted on 01/31/2018 8:26:51 AM PST by oincobx
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Bad for young and old alike!


17 posted on 01/31/2018 8:27:26 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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Young people have been abandoning the NFL in droves even before all the kneeling.


18 posted on 01/31/2018 8:28:22 AM PST by dfwgator
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The NFL is just seeing the early storm-clouds..Goodell has no clue what is coming at him.

The TV networks also are having to give back advertising time or money to the commercial buyers due to the drop off in viewers promised to the advertisers.. That amounts to significant costs to the nets.

19 posted on 01/31/2018 8:29:06 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Doubling down on the SJW stuff too wasn’t bright.


20 posted on 01/31/2018 8:29:27 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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