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NFL's 'Monday Night Football' Sets Record Low In Ratings For ESPN...
forbes.com ^ | 10/12/16 | Brandon Katz

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 ...


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To: Night Hides Not
"BTW, hopes are very high for Zag fans this year (Gonzaga)...maybe too high."

Did you know that Gonzaga recently hired that Melissa Click, or whatever her name is, the Missouri instructor who threatened student journalists with "muscle" if they continued to film the BLM protests?
61 posted on 10/12/2016 11:22:56 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: NorthMountain

I think you just created the slogan for this movement! “To Hell with the NFL” Need posters to hold up in front of cameras!!!


62 posted on 10/12/2016 11:23:18 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: dfwgator

http://baseballhall.org/discover/when-the-offseason-meant-job-season

...Like many players before the salary boom that began in the late 1970s, Berra returned home and found an offseason job.

A St. Louis restaurant hired Yogi to don a tuxedo and greet patrons. Another winter, he sold hardware at a department store.

Even in 1951, after winning his fourth championship and his first AL MVP Award, Berra sold suits at a store in Newark, N.J., alongside his teammate Phil Rizzuto...


63 posted on 10/12/2016 11:26:36 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: dfwgator

It’s a good point about 16 games vs. 162 regular season games. Playoff MLB is way different for sure. But one of the nice things about having so many games in MLB is that the players can actually self police each other better than they can in the NFL. In the NFL each game means so much and with the modern penalty and replay the cool players can’t stop the jerkwad players. They actually had to come up with lame rules/penalties to stop the worst of the swishy celebration dancing and chest slapping displays instead of players handling that crap.

Freegards


64 posted on 10/12/2016 11:33:39 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: SoFloFreeper

No debate to blame it on....


65 posted on 10/12/2016 11:36:50 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: usafa92

True.


66 posted on 10/12/2016 11:37:04 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: dfwgator

Against the Browns-come on!


67 posted on 10/12/2016 11:37:53 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: SwampFoxSC
I tried to watch a show on the NFL network the day after the games and they had a bimbo and three clowns sitting at a table. Their voices grated on my nerves as they tried to talk over each other. ESPN is no better. I will follow my team in the print media.
68 posted on 10/12/2016 11:40:13 AM PDT by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Did you know that Gonzaga recently hired that Melissa Click?

Yes, and the alumni office was flooded with calls and emails protesting the hire.

The school has admittedly gone downhill after replacing Fr. Bob Spitzer, who retired as President a couple of years ago. Gonzaga's growth over the last ten years was due to a combination of Bob's leadership, and the success of the basketball team.

Over forty years later, the campus is still a magical place to me. I loved my four years there, and remain in contact with dozens of alumni almost daily. I received an incredible education there, and it was the springboard that took me to places I never could have conceived when I matriculated.

My wife and I visited Spokane 15 years ago. It took her less than two days on campus to announce our daughter would follow her dad, if that was her choice. Unfortunately, my daughter heard too many stories of the hours I put in to graduate in four years...lol.

I have a 14 YO son a 6 YO grandson, both who would thrill me if they were accepted there. Fortunately, we have the assets to send them both, without need of student loans.

69 posted on 10/12/2016 11:43:54 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: EC Washington
I think you just created the slogan for this movement!

Spread it far and wide, with my blessing.

To hell with the NFL!!!

70 posted on 10/12/2016 12:27:34 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: MaxistheBest
Last game

28-40 passes

406 yards

3 touchdowns

0 interceptions

127.7 QB rating

138.8 passer rating when blitzed

Brady will have an uphill battle in the image department with many non-football persons. Though his playing has not suffered as you point out.

71 posted on 10/12/2016 12:38:07 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Night Hides Not

My dad went to Gonzaga; I went to Seattle U, which is hardly recognizable as a Catholic institution anymore. A higher percentage of SU faculty voted for Obama than did University of Washington faculty (among those responding to a survey).


72 posted on 10/12/2016 2:02:34 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

I sometimes go to Drudge if a post from his site looks worth reading.

A couple of times a day, I check Faux’s website and their local website. About once a day, there is a good article/post at each site, and I can go there with ad block and Ghostery and not get cookied to death.


73 posted on 10/12/2016 3:08:36 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: Night Hides Not

You mean you don’t love those field goal battles?

Hoops to me now is mostly the Tournament. Tape them all and watch the close games/upsets

Even CFB games, I tape them too and avoid the ESPN commercials.

So you think JW III is gonna take Zags to Promised Land?


74 posted on 10/13/2016 12:14:56 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: Night Hides Not

You mean you don’t love those field goal battles?

Hoops to me now is mostly the Tournament. Tape them all and watch the close games/upsets

Even CFB games, I tape them too and avoid the ESPN commercials.

So you think JW III is gonna take Zags to Promised Land?


75 posted on 10/13/2016 12:15:08 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
I'm really looking forward to seeing JW III in action. He's one of the new players on the squad this year, and Shem Karnoski is fully healed from his back surgery. He clogs up the lane on defense, and is a deft passer in the paint.

We lost Wiltjer (Rockets), Sabonis (OKC), Drainginis, and McClellan. However, in addition to the two transfers eligible this year (JW III and Nigel Williams-Goss), we have our first McDonalds AA, Zach Collins, and several more outstanding freshmen.

I'm looking forward to a great year, but I'm not going to say "this is THE year." We had really high hopes last year, and then Karno went down with his back injury.

76 posted on 10/13/2016 1:04:52 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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