Posted on 12/29/2016 9:56:53 PM PST by Zakeet
If not for this past Monday night's highly watched NFL game, The Walt Disney Co's ESPN network would have had its smallest audience for "Monday Night Football" in 2016 since the 2006 season.
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This year marks the third consecutive year that ESPN's "Monday Night Football" audience has declined, and the fifth decline in the past six years.
The NFL ratings downturn was most notable in primetime. ESPN was among the hardest hit, with viewership falling nearly 12 percent from last season, according to the Nielsen data.
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There was football on Monday night? Oh my, I was working so I missed it. Did I miss anything?
Gee, I guess that’s what happens when the NFL caters to spoiled, rich, anti-police a$$holes, huh? If the NFL would have nipped it in the bud and placed a big fine on these jerks all would have been OK. But no, they sided with the phony baloney, BLM, “hands up don’t shoot” lying sacks of $hit.
So just die NFL.... Just die.
3 reasons:
1. Roger Goodell
2. It’s on ESPN instead of regular television. Not nearly as many people pay for cable/satellite TV as they used to.
3. It’s on ESPN. It might as well be on CNN.
You’re right I forgot about the BLM nonsense, but it does go along with my CNN reference. People want to watch football not politics, especially the politics espoused by spoiled, rich thugs.
I prefer our local high school football team, and college. Go Rebels and Roll Tide!
The NFL pulls in a lot of dough and the management has lost its mind. Killing a golden goose is no way to please the Stockholders of these networks.
Not a single game this season. Former red-ticket subscriber. I cut the cord and refuse to endorse the NFL. My country deserves more respect. NFL lost me - I’m gone and it feels great!
It now has life of its own, an out-of-control wildfire. It will flame out, but before leaving behind huge charred area. It has been going on for a while, but Obama came along and turned into a raging fire spreading in every direction. This is one of his true legacy.
Amen. Cut out all football — pro, college, prep — and it feels good. Our NFL franchise (Chargers) is leaving for LA to be the Rams’ b*tch & get booed by hordes of Raiders fans, and I couldn’t care less.
Basically it is a boring game. Three hikes and a punt. Who cares?
ESPN apparently has been taking advantage of their "captive" audience to inject their politics and opinions.
Sports fans want to escape from the daily barrage of politics when they turn on the tv. Sports fans do not want to be insulted by unpatriotic displays by greedy and selfish athletes. Goodby to football.
I’ve watched the Colts maybe 3 times this year and it was casual observation. It was on in the background while I did more productive things. Plus, it really helps that they’re terrible this year.
I have a hard enough time sitting through a 2 hour movie with no commercials. Dragging one hour of playing time into 3 or 4 actual hours and then the last 5 game minutes into 30 or so with the regular and TV timeouts is maddening. It’s only tolerable if it’s background noise for a party. I don’t know how people dedicate whole Sundays actually going to these things unless they’re doing it to get totally blitzed.
This malaise with football will continue until the NFL decides to eject politics from the game. The same goes with sports broadcasting.
People are sick of it. Many are not actually boycotting, they just don’t watch because it irritates them.
If ESPN had stuck to sports, and the NFL had stuck to football, they’d be doing much better.
The NFL, it’s for bitches .
As a Generation Xer, MNF went from must see TV to who cares. Since ESPN took over there has been in my mind a huge drop off in the quality of the MNF matchups; Sunday Night Football has cannibalised MNF. My memory is filled with MNF moments from Bo Jackson blowing up the Seahawks and the Boz, Joe Montana as a Chief v. Elway, Brett Favre playing after his dad passed away, Steve Atwater blowing up the Nigerian Nightmare. I can’t remember anything like that since ESPN took over.
ff
NFL rapidly becoming the NBA - large black men occasionally exerting themselves.
I’ve mostly stopped watching programs in “real time”. I will DVR it, and either watch it the next day, or half hour into it. This way I can have the DVR skip over commercials.
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