YEp no impact in the stands at all Brian. These pictures are from normally packed to the rafters Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. I took these midway through the First period.
Posted on 10/04/2017 6:06:28 AM PDT by 11th_VA
They can't do that! How will the players be able to protest and get their message out?! I mean, this isn't about the anthem, right?
Approximately 16% drop since week 1 of the season.
A boycott means you still want the product. When you no longer are in the market to buy, that is worse.
Baseball lost a lot of fans with the strike that never went back. The NFL is going to see the same thing.
And demographics is working against them.
It will probably have an impact on an already dropping rating.
When the World Series has record low ratings in a few weeks, though, it won’t be the result of any boycott.
I think what these football “victims” don’t know is that the Bible is full of admonitions to honor your country and your God. If you do neither, you are apt to fail, not only as a person, but as a people.
If these guys EVER looked at the actual stats of “white on black” crimes and oppression, they would find the results indicate that black on black crime and oppression is the absolute highest amount. These “victims” are so full of themselves, they can’t see that they are their own worst oppressors.
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Now that its an issue, and since Las Vegas, NOT showing the anthem isn’t really an option.
The entire week all we’ve been hearing about are the hero police officers of Las Vegas who stood in the line of fire while directing civilians out of the field of fire.
There were stories of police officers using their bodies to shield civilians.
Makes Michael Bennett’s horse dung story about how he was treated by the same police officers seem like the worst type of reverse racism.
He sounds like a welfare queen.
First word in NFL is NATIONAL. How can you want to be ANTI-NATIONAL and expect your brand to survive?
Some weapons-grade arrogance and stupidity going on among millionaire victim-athletes these days.
That’s my new term for football players - Victim-athletes.
The jerks kneeling usually do poorly in arithmetic and won’t notice nor care until their paychecks are involved.
That is a precipitous decline.
Just for perspective, if a major corporation like Apple or Microsoft were to have their revenues decline by 15% in such a short time frame, their stocks would be getting absolutely hammered.
YEp no impact in the stands at all Brian. These pictures are from normally packed to the rafters Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. I took these midway through the First period.
This isn’t a stand-off and an apology would be a fake gesture. Anyone who comes crawling back because the league said “I’m sorry, it won’t happen again” is acting like a battered spouse that keeps returning to the abuser.
The abuse will happen again and again and again, until you say, “no more”.
The glory days are done. Over. It will never be the same for the NFL no matter what they do or say.
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That’s right. They spoiled it and it will never be the same. It’s downhill from now on.
Go Sooners!
You are right, and I am afraid that’s part of the problem. The NFL had assumed the guys will just be there, but pink socks, bigger than life events and human interest is needed to get women to keep watching, and expanding the advertising base past razors and beer.
From an earlier post on a similar topic:
“In 1975, NFL football was already the nation’s #1 sport. Like all televised sports, there was no expectation of drawing anything but MEN watching the games. It was understood that the ladies would watch a movie on another channel on Sunday afternoons, chat with friends, indulge in hobbies or whatever. If lucky, a few wives would watch to share the experience with their husbands.
THEN, it became about more than just the game. It became the SPECTACLE.”
cf. https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3587673/posts?page=56#56
Interesting perspective, thanks
A drop of about 2.5 million — just this season.
How many lost advertising dollars do those numbers represent?
What you said. Excellent summary!
Yeah, Brian, all television shows lose 18% of their viewers every month.
“The Big Bang Theory” and its spinoff, “Young Sheldon.”
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A show I’ve watched has a spinoff, heh.
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