This guy (and others) are right about the declining quality of the game, but they miss the major point - that factor *buttresses* the flight from viewership, it doesn’t much cause it. When I quit watching football this year, I was surprised how little I missed it - of course we’re talking the Bears of 2016, not the Bears of the late 80’s (they’d be tough to give up on).
But that’s the whole point - I’ve been a sports fan all my life; the sports go through ups and downs, as do one’s favorite teams. You stick with ‘em partly out of habit, partly out of loyalty; when the habit’s broken (thank you very much, Kaepernick) and there’s not much to hold your loyalty - poof, there goes TV viewership and there goes ad revenue. The longer it takes Goodell to figure that out, the worse it gets. And I don’t expect much of the leftist sports media, with its head up its collected behind, to ever see it.
Outstanding. Well said.
I feel the same way. I've noticed since giving up on football that I do not miss it. It was foolish of Goodell to give fans a chance to find out they don't really need football. I mentioned on a thread yesterday that the same thing heppened to me with baseball after the last big strike in the mid 90's. The season ended at the halfway point, and when baseball resumed the following season, I found I did not care. I only resumed watching baseball in 2015.
Well said. This Green Bay fan has no interest in watching overpaid, underperforming, bling covered, prima donnas, ragging on the very country that gave them the opportunity, regardless of race, to make all their money to begin with. Said that in a letter to Roger Goodell but never received a reply.
Having said, that, I'll point out that polluting the NFL with politics makes it easier for a lot of people to walk away from it.
And make no mistake about it, folks -- these people really are walking away, not boycotting. Once they find something better to do on Sunday afternoons, they never come back.