Posted on 09/21/2017 7:48:12 AM PDT by oh8eleven
Ratings in Weeks 1 and 2 were down 12 and 15 percent, respectively, according to Nielsen.
To be sure, saturation TV coverage of Hurricane Irma sapped some eyeballs from football during the first week of play
“Week 2 might have still been disrupted by carryover impacts from the hurricanes that hit Houston and Florida,” UBS analyst Doug Mitchelson offered by way of explanation.
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The Negros, Felons, and Liberals do no pray; they’re atheists.
Learn to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Then your crowds will come back.
Until then, forget it....
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Ratings and attendance will just continue to go down, down, down.
I don’t think ESPN (Extra Stupid Pussy Network) is
very much help to the NFL anymore.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Especially since the "election season" is mostly restricted to advertisements during commercial breaks
“Gee, I wonder if the Cowboys are having ratings problems.”
Not yet? But, if they continue to play like they did last week they will indeed have rations problems - and attendance problems. Same with the Giants. Two of the leagues prem’o teams. If they don’t perform the league is n trouble.
There have been more hurricanes, earthquakes, Trump’s UN speech, which to leftards is just as bad. The NFL needs a Baghdad Bob.
Watching an NFL game is the same as donation to white liberal elites running the Democrat Party.
Speaking of homo stuff. I was channel surfing past some games this past Sunday and happened to catch a Gain commercial. The guy’s playing the backend of a Unicorn costume and is enjoying the smell of the frontend guy’s shirt. Freakin’ homo crap! They think this sells to the football crowd? Maybe the new crowd.
“Last year, it was the elections. This year so far, it’s been the hurricanes. But there won’t be any excuses for the rest of the season.”
No matter what the “cause,” the drip, drip, drip, of financial losses will continue, and that’s the most important factor.
My thesis - which I keep repeating - is that significant rot had already set in. Much like a diseased tree falling when a major storm moves in, the NFL was already vulnerable. They had essentially killed the pace & flow through commercial/penalty interruptions. The league had already embarrassed itself with pathetic attempts towards virtue signalling in an effort to appeal to a broader advertising base.
All this resentment and growing disinterest was already manifest; all it required was a spark. Kap and the anti-American protests are what lit the fire. Now the boycott is spreading for no other reason than to stick it to yet another debauched entertainment vehicle no different than the rest of Hollywood.
That too, and well deserved either way !
“The most successful sports franchise operation in history has managed to screw the pooch. Good riddance!”
Actually, they’ve screwed their own pooch. I just feel sorry for the citizens who are being left with the bonded indebtedness that their “civic leaders” BSed them into taking on, to provide these worthless, mainly black, overpaid a$$holes places to play their stupid, insipid game.
Good points. The NFL is injecting politics into their sport and people are starting to tune out!
I’m not convinced prayer will help. I think God expects us to make good decisions, then He helps us.
BOYCOTT THE NFL
And, boycott ESPN while you're at it!
But the NFL would still have multiple, fundamental problems -- It's far too expensive for many to attend games. The level of play seems to keep decreasing (they really need to eliminate like 4 teams). There are only about 15 minutes of actual action in a 3+ hour game. They are over-saturating TV viewers with games on Thursdays, all day & night Sunday, and Monday night. The concussion issue is turning more away from football in general. And other assorted problems that existed before people like Kaepernick decided to open his yap.
If it were not for gamblers, and maybe fantasy footballers, there would be no NFL.
For some players, their prayers are answered.
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