Gee, do you think the NFL Front Office is getting the message yet that our National Anthem matters?
Gee, do you think the NFL Front Office is getting the message yet that our National Anthem matters?
No
When will there be salary cuts to the thug millionaire players...?
The sad thing behind the images...are the thousands of folks who run the food and beverage stands, and are utterly dependent on profits. No fans? No profits. As the players harmed their own interest, they also harmed tens of thousands of folks behind them.
Good. They are trying to make us hate our country, and failing.
There is a significant segment of the population that hates the country, but the majority of Americans don’t, and have no use for specially-privileged America haters.
To all the America haters - clinton, bammy, farrakhan, lizzy warren, al sharpton, kapernick, kathy griffin, ellison - go to hell and get out of this country!
It won’t be long until some of the thugs find that their paychecks are bouncing. Most of the NFL franchises have mega payrolls and rely heavily on TV money to meet their cash flow obligations. It can get old quickly when some of the owners are forced to transfer family dough into the team finances.
I love seeing this but I’ve reached the conclusion that some American men would rather watch these anti-American thugs than turn the crap off.
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!
No. The dumbasses just gave Roger Goodell a $200 MILLION dollar contract extension.
Doubling down on stupid.
F**K the NFL!
The sad repercussions of this are the ‘Regular Joes’ (like the food vendors, etc) who are being hurt because of the actions of these overpaid and entitled p***y traitors.
Hopefully they consider a class action suit against the “poor, downtrodden millionaires” perpetrators in order to recover lost revenues.
FUNFL
I, for one, don’t buy stuff from people who spit on me.
But then again, I’m not a liberal...
The article disingenuously cites the Bills-Colts game as evidence of declining attendance. The game was played in a heavy snowstorm, and probably would have had a lot of empty seats even if there was no national anthem controversy.
You could consider the whole NFL thing a kind of “tulip bulb” bubble. And the bubble has burst.
People were willing to wrap their lives around NFL football because they had come to feel some kind of bond between themselves and their favorite teams, they felt that how the team did reflected something about themselves, they cared about individual players and how they did. Its one thing to pay a few bucks to see a college game, its entirely another when you are spending hundreds because it is really important to you.
But absent this “bond” between team and the fan, its just a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around, and who really cares? That’s what these guys failed to recognize, the importance of the bond with their fans. So they an still play ball, but no one is going to pay them millions to do it, because no one really cares who wins.
Maybe they should start taking EBT cards to increase attendance
Not that they will admit. Goodell was just on CNBC and actually said, “The concessions are so nice now that people are not in their seats.”
He thinks we are so stupid to believe that the stands aren’t really empty, it’s just that everybody’s getting a beer at the same time. Unreal.
Who is selling these tickets? Is it the clubs/stadium owners themselves, 3rd party purchasers
who bought to resell, individuals who can’t go for some reason or the other, etc?
Granted, sparse stadium attendance is an embarrassing image problem, but it’s secondary to the TV audience. How many are tuning out?
Sure they got the message. Owners: “$100 million isn’t enough to quell the unrest. We need to up our donation to $500 million to the support the causes of the racist, cop-hating, America-hating thugs. That’ll patch things up with the disgruntled fans.”
I have to admit.
I actually tuned into the Bills game for a few minutes to laugh at them playing in the lake effect snow.
Not that I should be laughing too hard.
We’re got a winter storm warning for lake effect for tonight through Wed afternoon.
No, or maybe not yet. We're heading into colder weather - which tended to weed out all but the die-hard fans anyway. Also, as teams get eliminated from playoff possibilities "fair weather" fans tended to drift away anyway.
Well, they've already stripped down to just the die-hard fans already. So they probably don't expect things to get much worse. In fact, they're probably counting on playoff games to pack in more attendance and better TV audiences -- we'll see about that.
They've thrown a couple of appeasement attempts and a few million dollars at the issue. Yes I know, wrong approach but they are too {expletive} stupid to realize that -- yet. I'll bet you they have their left-leaning ad-men, oh, pardon me, ad-women, no, er... ad-non-gender-specific-nor-assuming-pronoun wankers and PR types working on plans for next season right now.
No-doubt the limp-wristed crowd is telling the owners how wonderful this opportunity is to expand their customer base beyond their historical demographic. They'll be planning all kinds of promotions and tie-ins to re-brand the NFL and make their fans feel good about being fans...
The upshot is, even if the anthem protests and blatant ingratitude and disrespect didn't turn you off from the NFL this year - what they're probably planning on doing to it next year definitely will...if you're part of their traditional fan demographic. They apparently think they don't need us.
Ticket prices are worth mentioning but TV viewership,TV ad revenue and sweat shirt/jersey sales are even more important.