Posted on 11/27/2018 7:58:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
After two seasons of declining ratings, viewing of NFL games is up in 2018. There are a few reasons for the uptick in TV viewing, including a lot of high-scoring games and marquee matchups in prime time.
In 2017, the ratings for the NFL regular season had dropped by 10% from the 2016 season. It marked the second consecutive year ratings had declined. So far, 11 weeks into the 2018 season, NFL ratings are up by 4%, marking the first ratings increase in three years.
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Roger Goodell and the Kneelers were right. Just drag this out long enough and people will forget. Look for Pope Francis to replicate this tactic with his sex scandals.
Our population has the attention span of a sand gnat.
It’s not me, I’m in my third year of being NFL free.
“Our population has the attention span of a sand gnat.”
And the intelligence of Ocasio-Cortez.
Our future isn’t bright. (Pun intended).
Me neither. If weather keeps me inside there is hockey.
But the there was a story recently, talking about how NFL attendance at games was down.
Are TV ratings up, but fewer want to actually go to a game?
Are there still kneeling black pampers? I quit watching when the Broncos (now Donkeys) took a knee.
The NFL sucks. There may be an uptick in viewership for the moment, but the same Soy Boys run the NFL as before. Moreover, the sports media is full of Soy Boys. It’s just a matter of time before lame rules, protesting, and/or a strike bring it back down to Earth.
The sport is becoming more like Arena/Canadian/Flag football every day. You can see the crisis that the league is in by the horribly inconsistent refereeing. Watch one game and see people get ejected for targeting, then when the league realizes that it’s ejecting too many people for just trying to honestly tackle someone, they stop calling in other “obvious” situations.
All the media morons are thumping their chests about the high scoring game between the Rams and Chiefs last week. If I wanna see easy scoring and non-existent defense, I’ll watch basketball.
Ah, but what are ad rates doing...?
If ratings dropped last year by 10%, and increased 4% this year, that’s still a net decline of 6%. Just in round numbers total viewership is down .
The devil is in the details...
There is almost certainly a players strike coming. The Le’ Veon Bell holdout here in Pittsburgh is telegraphing this. They are going to walk out over the franchise tag.
Unfortunately more will probably stop watching for that reason than the fact that they let their players use our flag as toilet paper.
No..the fans that walked away from the NFL have not begun to return to the fold. They have been replaced by people who are new to the world of football.
As one who is not returning, I am quite surprised that I no longer even check to see how “MY team” is doing. I no longer want to make a statement but just don’t give a damn, so the NFL just doesn’t exist in my world.
Do I miss it? Yes, I miss what it once was, but don’t care what it has become.
Not sure its as you say. When the national game is a dog, it has a NY team in it. The big night games that in the past would be Jacksonville v. San Fran instead were Grren Bay v. Patriots and the next week Chiefs v. Rams. The games that used to be in the pile at 1pm are now showcased.
And check out what the NFL is spending on advertising...
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/11/21/tv-ad-spend-weekly-nfl-vs-the-holidays
I was a guest for Thanksgiving. Host offered to tune it to the football game. I changed it to a dog show. The dogs were a pleasure to see. Don’t miss the NFL at all.
It’s not our game anymore.
Football used to be a bastion for men. Now when you watch the coverage it’s all geared towards attracting more women viewers, starting with the stupid halftime shows.
There is no defense being played whatsoever. The soy boys like that too. It ain’t football, its a game that resembles football somewhat, but it’s not football.
This is like the steroid era in baseball. Every record smashed, fans excited about high scoring affairs(boycotters not, of course). Eventually, like the steriod era of baseball, it will crash. Likely the NFL will come to be viewed like arena football (or even better, the NBA when zone defenses were illegal and superstars of the 1990s were guaranteed a one-on-one match up with everyone else being used solely to draw away all the other defenders); This will be because the chess-like strategic interplay between offense and defense has been legislated out, as well as the smash mouth, hard hitting aspect that made it exciting to watch a goal line stand or a critical fourth down. Bombs away football will ultimately become kind of boring once the novelty wears off because it’s not really football.
Yup. No NFL in my house
I have watched exactly 1 1/2 NFL games since all the kneeling started.
1) Last Thanksgiving, spent at the home of someone who had the game on.
2) One of last year’s playoff games (I am related to a player on one of the teams, it was his first playoff game, and I felt obligated).
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