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Shock poll: A third of NFL TV viewers boycotting games because of Colin Kaepernick-led protests
Sporting News ^ | October 5, 2016 | Michael McCarthy

Posted on 10/06/2016 6:16:20 AM PDT by C19fan

It's the Kaepernick Effect, stupid.

The alarming fall in NFL TV ratings this season is partly because of fan anger over on-field protests by Colin Kaepernick and other players of the American flag/national anthem, according to pollster Rasmussen Reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at sportingnews.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; boycott; football; kaepernick; nfl
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#Boycott NFL!
1 posted on 10/06/2016 6:16:20 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

CBS and Sporting News admitting it’s Kaepernick?

Send another case of Depends over to NFL Headquarters.


2 posted on 10/06/2016 6:17:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Well, this is GREAT news, IMHO. Hopefully the NFL will understand that there are consequences to idiocy.


3 posted on 10/06/2016 6:18:53 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: C19fan

Will the NFL go the way of Target? Next stop Apple.


4 posted on 10/06/2016 6:19:31 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: C19fan

We had an idiot host on our local sports radio trying to dismiss this poll result, so I turned him off, too!

#BoycottNFL


5 posted on 10/06/2016 6:19:40 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: C19fan

I haven’t watched a single game and I’m surprised at how little I miss it! The NFL has been dying (to me) for a while, it’s now completely dead to me.


6 posted on 10/06/2016 6:19:46 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent MajorityStands With TRUMP!)
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And the raised fist black supremacy gag is a real selling point as well.


7 posted on 10/06/2016 6:19:52 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: C19fan

Perhaps Obama can decree that Nielsen has to count the viewers who aren’t watching as if they were still watching.

Problem solved.


8 posted on 10/06/2016 6:19:56 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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I watched the last 8 minutes of one NFL game this season...that’s all.


9 posted on 10/06/2016 6:21:16 AM PDT by DOC44 (Have gun will travel.)
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The toothless/Leftist owners should have fired their azzes and told them to take their protests home with their last pay checks. We are only watching the Cowboys games this year because they wanted to honor the five assassinated Dallas police officers with a little patch on their helmets and that worm, Goodell, wouldn’t allow it.


10 posted on 10/06/2016 6:21:28 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: C19fan

Too many liberal turds in the USA punch bowl.


11 posted on 10/06/2016 6:21:55 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (For Hillary: a podium to raise the odium.)
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To: NEMDF

I predict NFL does nothing. The SJW’s that run it will take the loss, hunker down and blame it on something else, just like Target.


12 posted on 10/06/2016 6:22:03 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: HonkyTonkMan; Swordmaker

Will the NFL go the way of Target? Next stop Apple Computer.


13 posted on 10/06/2016 6:22:25 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: C19fan

The NFL could fix this problem today by simply issuing the following directive:

Players shall stand for the National Anthem or they will sit out the game without pay.


14 posted on 10/06/2016 6:22:46 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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The Commissioner taking out Brady for a month didn’t help.


15 posted on 10/06/2016 6:23:26 AM PDT by AU72
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“...it’s now completely dead to me.”

Me, too. Stopped watching the NFL (MLB, NHL and NBA, too)since 1992. Haven’t missed it one bit, and I take a certain amount of personal pride and satisfaction in that fact.

Piss on all of them. I have better things to do than waste my time watching a bunch of ignorant, self-entitled, over-paid terds play a kid’s game.


16 posted on 10/06/2016 6:24:08 AM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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This happened to me with professional baseball with the player’s strike.


17 posted on 10/06/2016 6:24:26 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You’re going to upset Rush. He gives Apple thousands of dollars of free advertising.


18 posted on 10/06/2016 6:26:04 AM PDT by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Continue boycotting, then boycott the NBA and NCAA for their antics in Indiana and North Carolina.


19 posted on 10/06/2016 6:26:23 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: NEMDF

I am disappointed that there aren’t some patriotic players who don’t see fit to give a certain ungrateful someone a blanket party...


20 posted on 10/06/2016 6:26:49 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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