NFL enduring unprecedented double-digit TV ratings drops this year

fiercecable.com ^ | 4 Oct 2016 | by Daniel Frankel

[11th_VA]

[dfwgator]

If Lombardi was alive today, he'd be saying this a lot....

[dfwgator]

I’m a Lions fan, our season is already over.

[Comment Not Approved]

Haven’t seen a game yet this season. Not likely to either.

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with you. I think there’s also a trend of people just getting bored with many forms of commercialized entertainment. That’s why ratings are down across the board — not just in the NFL.

[.45 Long Colt]

They’d better hope they can make enough money from politically correct pajama-boy types. Some of us deplorable red meat types have moved on and probably won’t be back. I left mostly because I despise their politics and attack on my Christian values (which started before this Kapernick stuff), but now that I’m gone I don’t miss it. There is a sense of great freedom once a poor habit is broken. I shudder to think of all the time, money, and mental energy I have wasted on the NFL since I attended my first game (Cowboys @ Cardinals) in 1971.

[dfwgator]

I must admit I enjoyed watching the final day of the baseball season, a lot of games with playoff implications going on at the same time. Baseball will always be there. Nothing beats playoff baseball, where every pitch matters.

[jimbug]

Thanks demkicker—this gets my vote for the post of the year!

[fuzzylogic]

:) I grew up just outside Leicester City....we still have a big smile from last season.

[Parley Baer]

I have stopped watching altogether. It is like the BLM people have taken over the NFL.

[Alberta's Child]

The NFL is going to learn that fans don’t boycott the NFL. They dump it for good. Once they find something else to do on Sunday afternoons, they never come back.

[Obadiah]

I guess. You guys rocked last year... and then Manchester United ruined this season, or at least temporarily.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. Reminds me of an old baseball quote from a player or manager explaining why he didn’t want to play for the Cleveland Indians: “In Cleveland, pennant fever is a 48 hour virus.”

[al baby]

I hear some of the guys around town talk about that crap its like crack to them

[Vermont Lt]

Basketball starts soon enough.

I was telling my wife that we did not have a lot of time left to jump on the Red Sox wagon.

[beelzepug]

Nice to see some overdue respect for soccer. For a long time, many FReepers have been deriding soccer as a game for European Nancy boys.

MLS consists of two 45-min. halves, a short half-time break, no timeouts, and a reasonable amount of tacked-on stoppage time, and you’re outta there. NFL? A 1-hr. game that takes upwards of four hours to play, what with commercials, never-ending time-outs, watching replays to be sure the bonehead refs got the call right, half-times that often rival any Barnum & Bailey show I ever saw, and ticket prices that make your face blanch.
Which one do you suppose I’ve chosen?

[T-Bone Texan]

A FReeper noted that the NFL is a perfect vehicle for controlling the thoughts and behaviors of white males.

It is a tool of the left to cow me into submission.

I refuse to go quietly into that goodnight.

[beelzepug]

“I grew up just outside Leicester City....”

Yeah, bless their little hearts!

[notdownwidems]

The NFL has a big problem that’s going to hit in a few years. Young kids just aren’t into football like their parents were.

They are gravitating more to soccer. You’re more likely to see a poster of Lionel Messi in a kid’s room than for any football player.

That's a problem for the NFL, but not the biggest problem; that is, the game STINKS...it is so boring watching referees confer after every other play...watching an instant replay 10 times from every angle while everyone pontificates whether his knee was down or not, the arcane rules that call one player for taunting while the next one is doing the very same thing with no call...it's maddening. And the final straw: the rule change that gives the receiving team the ball on the 25 yard line after a touchback, the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they should have done, virtually guaranteeing more of the most boring play in football, the touchback. The game has become legalistic, stultifying and BORING.

And that's not even factoring in the 20 or so minutes of commercials every hour. Stupid, mind-numbingly stupid commercials,OH SO politically correct with just the right mix of minorities and women; which make me feel I have lost IQ points just being exposed to them

Now THAT's what's really wrong with the NFL, which has been all but eliminated from my household.

[right way right]

I’m tired of millionare Gangstas.
Cut out the Hip Hop and the Rap crap and get back to football and the colorblind brotherhood ways of the past.
Now, it’s just for ‘The Brothers’.

It destroyed the NBA and now the NFL.