Posted on 10/12/2016 9:57:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Surveying the ratings landscape for Monday Night Football and the NFL this season, you wouldn’t be blamed for mistaking it for the barren wasteland of the Mad Max movies rather than America’s most popular sport.
Back in early September, MNF posted its lowest numbers ever (8.3 rating) for a Week 2 game since ESPN acquired the rights in 2006. Then, going against the first presidential debate late last month, Monday Night Football set an all-time ratings low with barely 8 million total viewers. Now, last night’s matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers has scored MNF‘s lowest Week 5 ratings in ESPN history.
....with primetime ratings falling 14% in the coveted 18-49 demo during football, TV networks have been forced to give away more free commercial time as compensation.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Sorry...Miami gives up an average of 150 rushing yards per game.
Miami ranks dead LAST in rushing defense!!
http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/rushing/position/defense
Kaepernick and his buddies played a factor, too.
College hoops are just around the bend, so I'll have plenty of alternatives.
BTW, hopes are very high for Zag fans this year (Gonzaga)...maybe too high.
Short term symptom is the protests, but long term it’s a crap product. It’s damn near unwatchable. The rules changes have made it a flag football game, the CBA restricts practices so teams suck and can’t execute properly, the spread has made it an extension of the college game, and free agency and the salary cap on rookies, has ensured that most players are churned out after 4 years and replaced with similar inexperienced rookies and free agents. In short, they’ve ruined the game.
Who cares to watch these loser ingrates who disrespect this great country and have perverted football in so many ways. They can take all of their various PC BS and play to empty stadiums for all I care.
I'm not a soccer fan....BUT...I will watch the Premier League. I like it and it's a good break on Sunday mornings from the constant drone of the NFL chatter shows.
Playoff Hockey is the only “team” sport that I watch. Regular season hockey is too watered down, but the playoffs are lots of fun.
Sorry to hear about the Rangers.
And I really like the British announcers, who don’t say anything more than needs to be said.
The worst thing in the world is to hear an American announcing soccer.
"Turn out the lights, the party's over..."
Go Cubbies!...............
Peyton Manning retired.
Tom Brady is damaged goods.
What else is on TV? NFL not so much.
FESPN.
And the NFL horse they rode in on.
Hey NFL, keep your felons in a pen.
The Curse of the Billy Goat is a sports-related curse that was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave game 4 of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers at the Cubs’ home ballpark of Wrigley Field because the odor of his pet goat (named Murphy) was bothering other fans.[1][2] He was outraged and allegedly declared “Them Cubs, they ain’t gonna win no more,” which has been interpreted to mean that there would never be another World Series game won at Wrigley Field. The Cubs have not won a World Series championship since 1908 or played in the World Series since 1945.
Origins of the curse
The exact nature of the curse differs in various accounts of the incident. Some state that Sianis declared that no World Series games would ever again be played at Wrigley Field, while others believe that his ban was on the Cubs appearing in the World Series, making no mention of a specific venue. Sianis’ family claims that he dispatched a telegram to team owner Philip K. Wrigley which read, “You are going to lose this World Series and you are never going to win another World Series again. You are never going to win a World Series again because you insulted my goat.”
Whatever the truth, the Cubs were up two games to one in the 1945 Series, but ended up losing Game 4, as well as the best-of-seven series, four games to three. The curse was immortalized in newspaper columns over the years, particularly by syndicated columnist Mike Royko. The curse gained widespread attention during the 2003 postseason, when Fox television commentators played it up during the Cubs-Marlins matchup in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).[6] According to an account in the Chicago Sun of October 7, 1945, the goat was turned away at the gate, and Sianis left the goat tied to a stake in a parking lot and went into the game alone. There was mention of a lawsuit that day, but no mention of a curse.
Sianis’ goat was named “Murphy.” In the 2015 National League Championship Series, this was referenced by fans of the New York Mets, who joked that Daniel was “not the first GOAT (Greatest of All Time, in reference to Murphy’s postseason heroics to that point) named Murphy to keep the Cubs out of the World Series.”
Now FR is my only source for news.
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My only clicks are to Drudge, FR, or my e-mail.
You obviously didn't watch the game this weekend.
“In short, they’ve ruined the game.”
People who should never be in charge of anything are in charge of everything.
And not just football, either.
I think you are quite wrong about that. They could make far more than minimum wage providing security for bookies, pimps, and drug dealers.
I haven’t watched the NFL since the preseason, when Seahawk punter Jon Ryan announced he didn’t want conservatives to be Seahawk fans. Then all the BLM stuff sealed the deal. Haven’t really missed it.
“Tom Brady is damaged goods.”
Last game
28-40 passes
406 yards
3 touchdowns
0 interceptions
127.7 QB rating
138.8 passer rating when blitzed
“It was a better world when professional athletes had to get jobs in the off-season.”
Bobby Shantz took the money he earned and invested it in a hamburger joint and bowling alley. After he retired he worked this business for years. Ate many a burger for lunch there and Bobby Shantz handled the grille.
Bobby Shantz
Baseball Player
Robert Clayton Shantz is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Colt.45’s, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Born: Sep 26, 1925 (age 91) · Pottstown, PA
Height: 5’ 6” (1.68 m)
Awards: National League Gold Glove Award · American League Most Valuable Player Award (1952) · American League Gold Glove Award
“It was a better world when professional athletes had to get jobs in the off-season.”
Bobby Shantz took the money he earned and invested it in a hamburger joint and bowling alley. After he retired he worked this business for years. Ate many a burger for lunch there and Bobby Shantz handled the grille.
Bobby Shantz
Baseball Player
Robert Clayton Shantz is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Colt.45’s, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Born: Sep 26, 1925 (age 91) · Pottstown, PA
Height: 5’ 6” (1.68 m)
Awards: National League Gold Glove Award · American League Most Valuable Player Award (1952) · American League Gold Glove Award
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