Posted on 10/11/2016 8:08:51 PM PDT by jazusamo
Lookit how scummy it got after that!
Think JC Penney, Target and NFL all made anti social statements and their customers left never to come back.
Think JC Penney, Target and NFL all made anti social statements and their customers left never to come back.
LOL.. I was at that game— and almost left at halftime but because it was my first nfl game live I said we should hang around... The rest was crazy...
Totally. How long before they get Target’s public relations team to blame it on things like the weather?
How about Mathematics ? ... the ultimate in escapism !
With the incredible television screens and clarity, what do the networks do? Put scores, advertisement and a crawling updates, on the bottom 10% of the screen, a huge scoreboard with down and distance at that top. How about letting fans SEE the entire beautiful field and players as the play unfolds? Why have TV timeouts? Let the announcers sell products with their voices as the game rolls on, it has worked on radio for a century for baseball, and for football when it was broadcast generally.
3rd link, tap sheets, seems broke...no info or it quickly and quietly found the memory hole...
Bingo. The game is unwatchable. Big time college football is almost as bad. Football is a fine game when teams go out and play. But extended breaks every few downs kill any sense of rhythm. Get rid of the commercial breaks. That would mean a lot less money, of course, but if the fans want a decent product, the fans should simply turn off the television until the game changes.
The politicization is secondary but not unimportant. Football was always a red, white and blue all-American game. The change began years ago when the colleges sold out to television and the big bucks, and lowered standards to accommodate the recruitment of the thugs. Now thug culture is doing to the NFL what it did long ago to the NBA. It's becoming another ghetto game.
I agree thug culture is ruining football and basketball. I have gone back to watching baseball and am enjoying it very much this year.
I think your dismissal of the Rasmussen poll on why people are watching less NFL TV broadcasts is wrong, though.
While the Presidential election is a factor, you are completely dismissing the fact voters--already bombarded with political news (and increasingly political advertising!) 24/7 now--just want to watch an NFL game where such partisan politics are put aside for a few hours. For such partisan politics to be so evident during an NFL game is a HUGE turnoff to TV viewers, and that's why viewership is way down.
Also, I think your view is seriously skewed by where you have lived ever since you graduated from Eastern Washington University. Look at where you lived for long periods: Las Vegas, strongly influenced by liberal Los Angeles; Tampa, FL, the place where many people from liberal-leaning New York City retire there or have second homes there; Portland, OR, a major bastion of liberalism; West Hartford, CT, strongly influenced by liberal-leaning New York City and Boston; and now living in liberal-leaning Los Angeles itself. In short, your world view is mostly Left-leaning to start with. One wonders would your world view be not so far Left if you had worked in a city in the center of the country like Kansas City, MO or in Texas earlier in your broadcasting career?
A large number of Americans are tiring of being looked down on by the people living on the East Coast and West Coast--that's why the candidacy of Donald Trump has gotten HUGE political traction. Trump has become a political "rock star" just like Barack Obama was in 2008. Indeed, if Trump does win, it will finally show the gigantic rift between the "elites" who live on the coasts and the middle class that have been left behind in the rest of the country.
Me too Bump!
The NFL combines two of America’s greatest problems
: Violence and staff meetings. (anon)
That’s a valid point. I would look at it like NASCAR’s situation over the last ten years. They peaked in popularity and then their ratings (and ticket sales) dropped very quickly. In the entertainment business, what you find is that once you get outside your core fan base, people tend to have very short attention spans.
Later
and who cares if the animals don't stand for the country's anthem....
but the SCM drove this protest...covered it...featured it...and then the stinking weakling coaches and the nfl administration basically let it happen, encouraged it...
can you imagine if you or I came to work in our companies' attire and then publically humiliated that company and the owners just ignore it?....
we'd be fired in an instant...
Don’t think that that’s the case with the nfl. College football is still hitting new highs this year. Almost guaranteed it’s the kapernick effect.
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