Posted on 09/28/2017 4:20:39 PM PDT by markomalley
The National Football League is feeling the impact of the "Trump Effect."
Ticket sales since he called on team owners to fire players who take a knee to protest the National Anthem have cratered.
The online ticket reseller TickPick told Secrets that sales have dropped 17.9 percent, far more than the usual Week Three fall.
From TickPick:
"We have seen a massive decrease in NFL ticket purchases this past week in comparison to years past. Week 3 seems to usually have less ticket orders than week 2, but this year ticket purchases are down more than 7 percent from this time last year," said TickPick's Jack Slingland.
"While we can't specify if this decrease is due to the president's comments, player and owner protests, play on the field, or simply the continued division of consumer's media attention, the conversation around the NFL this week has focused on the president's comments as well as the players' and owners' reaction. As viewers continue to abandon their NFL Sunday habits, both the number of ticket sales and the purchase price of tickets will drop," he told us.
More good news.
NFL. Not much news here to watch. No interest in what happens to people who are losers. There was a time that sports required SPORTMANSHIP CONDUCT. You knew that there would be a call you questioned, a foul, a in bound or out of bound. There is always some injustice somewhere perpetrated by someone. But the USA does seem to want to improve. That line LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all is real. No time for NFL kneelers here.
winning
Winning!
Good.
Eventually. For some at this point, it's like watching a train wreck.
Gateway Pundit has a story about NFL tickets being offered at a 10% discount.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/begins-stubhub-advertises-10-discount-nfl-september-tickets/
People are protesting the nfl by the thousands by cancelling them on Directv!! This is growing and not going away.
Tickpick is a secondary market for tickets, so these are tickets the NFL has already sold. Those most hurt by the decline in secondary market prices are likely those who protesting the NFL but not quite mad enough to burn their tickets.
As usual, we don't know what the motive was.
They are desperately pretending that Trump and the deplorables have nothing to do with it.
We can do better than that.
lets put this Black Lives Matter front in its final rest.
The only way conservatives stand a chance in the culture wars is if we put our money where our mouth is. Maybe that’s finally starting to sink in.
This is truly laughable. A rather mediocre quaterback has started something that will destroy the NFL and now has escaped its control.
A black was spotted taking a kneel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ceremony today.
The genie is out of the bottle.
There is no “Trump Effect”.
There is a Jackass Effect and you can Affect the outcome....
That’s in total. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Steelers saw a much bigger drop.
I understand.
But I encourage you to take time to enjoy the destruction of the NFL by the NFL. It will be something we can fondly tell our grand kids.
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