Posted on 10/08/2016 11:15:06 AM PDT by PROCON
The NFL is blaming its horrible TV ratings on the election, according to a leaked memo to team owners obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Every single one of the NFL's primetime offerings (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday Night Football) is down double-digits, according to Sports Illustrated. Overall, NFL viewership is down 11% this year.
The NFL wrote that the drop in primetime was likely because of "unprecedented interest in the Presidential election." The letter went on to reference the 2000 election as another period of time when NFL ratings went down.
The NFL is not the only one to make the connection. In an interview with Sports Business Daily, Mike Mulvihill, a senior VP at Fox Sports, said the current season reminded him of fall of 2000, a year which included the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush. 2000 was the only year during the decade 2000-2010 where the NFL saw a downtick overall, Sports Illustrated notes.
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Sam Wyche blamed the 1st Bush for Stanly Wilson’s cocaine binge. Cost them the Super Bowl.
It’s not their money so what’s the biggie.
Election nothing. The NFL has embraced globalism and an anti-American viewpoint, and this FReeper is done watching them.
those who refuse to listen, must feel...
Yes.
For an "industry" that is 0% necessity and 100% luxury, you'd think they'd be a lot more conscious of their public image.
The NFL has gone out of its way to offend viewers of all kinds. It isn’t just one problem, unless you go to the abstract root issue that they plain forgot that their real mission is to entertain fans.
Keep the heat on; don’t let up on the pressure.
They and everyone else needs to know that dissing the United States of America is a dumb, stupid business decision.
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While a single fake but accurate memo from George W. Bush’s Air National Guard unit was enough to prove that he was unfit to be president, the thousands upon thousands of documents that prove Hillary Clinton’s corruption has the value of a dead possum on the side of a rural Texas highway.
In other news, Hillary Clinton says that her first act as president will be to issue an executive order to have all federal employees take a knee during the playing of the national anthem if she is elected president.
Meanwhile, an employee at one of Donald Trump’s properties dropped their tray in the cafeteria causing a mess. Proving once again, that Donald Trump is unfit to be president.
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Well, their ratings didn’t fall this much in other presidential election years - it’s a combination of disgust with the kneeling queens, the obvious leftist infusion in the sport,high stadium prices and the incessant commercials. I actually blame that hack of an NFL commissioner, fool is running the NFL into the ground.
Colleger football game ratings have gone up, I guess the election doesn’t influence them
The NFL forgot the Fans control their Future
My decision to dump the NFL after 50 years is ONLY because they forgot what nation they are the National Football League of.
Disrespect MY flag and MY country and all of you can get real jobs for all I care.
I am DONE with oppressing people by watching them play a game for millions of dollars.
NONE of those dollars will be mine going forward.
They need to be down 50% to have a chance of getting through to those libtard morons. The boycott needs to spread!!
Look! Squirrel!!
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“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.
Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.
But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]
During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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I never did. Watching NBC and that pussy lib Costas talk NFL is like Bill Clinton lecturing me about dating.
Blame it on Donald Trump. Sure.
However, his beloved grandmother, who Fernandez calls a “baseball freak,” was left behind.
“She’s the love of my life... my everything,” Fernandez said.
The day before winning the Rookie of the Year Award, a shocked Fernandez was reunited with his grandmother in Florida with help from Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-mlb-star-jose-fernandez-reunited-with-grandmother-for-first-time-since-defecting-from-cuba/
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