Posted on 01/15/2018 12:31:38 PM PST by smartyaz
According to Sports Media Watch, all four games were down substantially in overnight ratings from the comparable window last January, and several of them hit their lowest mark in years. Saturday afternoon’s Falcons-Eagles game on NBC drew a 17.4 overnight rating, down 5 percent from last year and 12 percent from 2016. It was the lowest for the early Saturday time slot since 2009. The Patriots-Jaguars matchup Sunday night on CBS was the lowest-rated game of the weekend, with a 16.6 overnight. That was down 9 percent from last year and 18 percent from 2016 and was also the worst performance in that window since 2009. The Jaguars-Steelers contest in the early window Sunday on CBS pulled a 20.4 overnight, down 12 percent from 2016. (Last year’s game in that slot was moved to primetime due to weather.) That was the lowest mark in its window since 2002. Finally, the Vikings-Saints duel Sunday afternoon on Fox drew the best overnight rating of the weekend (21.8) but was still down 23 percent from last year and 17 percent from 2016.
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Bad news? Sounds good to me.
never saw the game nor have any intention to nor the highlights. Its real easy to boycott.
There was life before football.
You know how many sports would kill to have a 21.8 be “down”?
Sounds like the Jaguars were busy Sunday.
So…now… what is this NFL you speak of??
Where you been the last few months?
This is the time of year I traditionally watched the NFL. Playoffs can be wonderfully intense. This is my second season without watching an NFL game. Screw em.
The weather was cold and nasty over much of the country.
Ideal conditions to sit inside and watch football.
And yet people didn’t.
Same here. I’m Canadian by birth so I watch hockey more than the NFL. I have season tickets for the Kings and ALL the foreign players stand in respect for the flag...not these animals from the NFL.
My late father hated football.
He said it was probably because his dad loved it, and would not stop dragging his son out to Forbes Field to watch a completely crappy Pittsburgh Steelers team lose game after game in the 1940’s.
Never on in my house now, screw them
I broke down and watched the Vikings game. I’m a fan of coach Mike Zimmer. The Bengals (the team I used to follow) made it real easy to swear off the NFL for the next two years by bringing back the biggest boob in football, next to Goodell, Marvin Lewis.
Not discounting the kneeling/political issue at all but there has been growing criticism over the advertising load on NFL games and it has built to a crescendo this year and last.
People are now accustomed to DVRs, streaming services, etc. that effectively nullify commercials.
The NFL is stuck in the over-the-air era when they could arrogantly expect audiences to sit still for 3, 4, even 5 minutes between actual plays in a game. Then they had the brass neck to read ‘billboard’ ads after canned commercials.
The complaints have been growing and last year’s ratings scare prompted to the NFL and broadcasters to modify their behavior only slightly by saying ‘we’ll be back in just 30 seconds’ and running side-by-side ads with game coverage but, of course, they couldn’t do so without announcing who the sponsor was. They are very slow learners.
Well this season the dam has burst. People tied to their phones and iPads are not only muting commercials, they are ignoring them full stop in favor of their personal technology. Sometimes they’ll resume watching the game, other times they say to hell with it and switch channels or simply turn on the Roku box.
The NFL force-fed its golden goose so much for so long that the egg output is decreasing quickly. They won’t learn a lesson, but even worse for them they can’t learn a lesson. Contract A depends on Contract B depends on Contract C.
Thursday Night games are all but gone due to complaints from all sides. ESPN has strongly signaled that it won’t - or can’t - pay another $2B for the Monday night package.
I suppose the delicious irony is that NFL player union leadership has been so incompetent for so long that they failed to get player compensation commensurate with revenue during the peak era. Now they’re going downhill and players demanding signing bonuses and long-term contracts are in for a shock.
NFL - No Fan League
Maybe they should consider giving Roger Goodell yet another raise and BMW or something. That guy has been the kiss of death from Day One and if they do not see it, they are blind as a bat.
And Zimmer has no time for anthem-kneelers.
I’m a Bronx boy born and bred.....left as a teen for the burbs . Love baseball. Yankees baseball. Football was always a second love. Rather play football then watch it though. But it wasn’t anything official. Street games etc.
I’ve only been to professional baseball games no football or hockey. Everyone stood for the National anthem.
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