Posted on 09/25/2016 7:40:53 AM PDT by Will88
Through the first two weeks of the regular season, the league's premiere game, NBC's "Sunday Night Football," is down 12% in viewership compared to last year; ESPN's big game, "Monday Night Football," is also down 12%; and CBS' first "Thursday Night Football" game fell a whopping 26%, according to Nielsen data.
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Turn them off! Don’t tell me you can’t find anything better to do with your time then to keep supporting those that insult and anger you.
Hit them where it hurts... It will also do wonders for your mental well being.
But I would also suggest this....the owners want the ratings to continue like this....so they can walk in and demand cuts on salaries across the league. I think this is the bigger agenda at work. Even the network heads might want ratings to slide, so they can also lower contract expectations over the next twelve months.
The NFL has overestimated the fun viewers have when players give them - and their values - the finger.
I quite watching some time ago. Got fed up with the whole spectacle, endless advertisements, and all the PC crapola. It became three hours of irritation instead of enjoyment.
I no longer have any interest in watching a bunch of liberal America hating, overpaid, millionaire thugs play a game. I no longer find the nfl entertaining at all.
We will see what happens in January when it is cold
I moved to SW Florida and lost all interest in the NFL
YOur not stuck in the house
I seriously doubt that. Most everything is tied to TV viewership for the NFL: player's salaries and the salary cap, owner's profits, and the value, or sales value, of the various NFL franchises.
the distraction has become the product and the game is secondary
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The game is already secondary to the non-stop ads. Football is just a stream of advertisements interspersed by a few intervals of the game.
IMHO, this has little to do with Brady, Manning, or Kaepernick; rather, too many extended commercial breaks and rule changes have turned what used to be a fast-paced, exciting game into a snooze fest.
That's exactly what I was thinking. This site probably has a lot of folks who were already at this point, even before the Kaepernick idiocy.
Since mid-August I've been watching a number of full games from a DVD box set that someone gave me as a gift a few years ago. It's a bunch of New York Giants postseason games from the 1980s through the mid-2000s.
One reason the NFL has become so dull is that the salary cap rules have watered down the rosters and made it impossible to build dominant teams anymore.
NFL insults its customers. The customers go elsewhere. GTH NFL!
There are times to sell a house, an antique car, a stock or a collectible even a Holland tulip. When ? When it buyer is willing to pay anything to own it. then it is SELL! SELL! SELL!. Slap in the thumb in the eye to the majority of viewers beliefs and you have a collapsing must like collapsing Hillary campaign. The NFL and their PC approach. Just announce the game. I don’t want to see a picture Bruce Jenner in a dress, stories on gay men who play football etc. You want to talk about those things. Fine. Do it in your living room not mine. I have kicked you out of that living room. Good bye. The NFL has joined those other smart PC companies like Target and JC Penney’s as road kill.
The NFL has stopped being for entertainment where viewers and advertisers pay so viewers can be entertained.
I stopped watching “pink games” a few years ago (baseball and football). I watch entertainment to forget about things like breast cancer, not to be reminded. I also stopped donating to the grocery store breast cancer campaigns because the charities interfered with my entertainment.
I got disgusted when I found out the NFL was charging the government for advertising while pretending to be patriotic in the pro-military games.
I now gave up on the NFL since they accepted anti-American actions during the game. I don’t miss it so far and am looking forward to another Sunday afternoon outside instead of glued to the TV. Drinking less beer and eating fewer chips too which is good for me :)
I wonder if beer/chip companies are noticing anything. A good pro-American marketing campaign could probably boost sales if they target those who still watch the NFL even though they are disgusted. I’d bet a lot of anti-American supports tune in for the pregame and turn it off after the game starts (or just watch the news to cheer). So pro-American ads won’t lose a lot of viewers.
It’s not really the attacking of their primary audience that is doing this to them, it is the POLITICAL LECTURING.
If you run a business, it is NEVER a good idea to lecture to your customers about political or social issues, as Target is also learning the hard way. It doesn’t matter what side you’re on, it just is DUMB, as you’ll turn off a huge portion of your customer base.
It’s hard to believe that the suits don’t know that...but then again, they likely haven’t lived in the real world for decades. All they see is TV news and what their left-wing Eunuchs tell them at the office.
This entire scenario illustrates something I often think, but seldom hear others express specifically, and that is that everyone has a right to free speech, but no one has a right to an audience.
These players are engaging in audience-napping. They’re putting their protest before an audience who absolutely did not buy a ticket or turn on their TV to witness their protests.
I believe the team owners have the right to say: no personal protests in the workplace just as any other business has. But the NFL is as infested with PCness are many other areas of American life and maybe a significant, and continuing, audience backlash will knock some sense into the players and owners.
Brady and Manning were two players affecting viewership of four teams per week.
That and the Election don’t begin to account for that steep of a decline
HINT: Racist, UnAmerican black players
Are they high? The first 3 Patriots games have been the most exciting games! The mystery, the intrigue! They have been must-watch tv, even for casual football fans in New England.
Coach Belicheck has worked his magic, and the Pats are 3-0 without Brady.
The pink games thing is okay with me for one week, but an entire month of it definitely gets old.
Must be the lack of diversity.
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