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Backlash: Week 6 of the NFL Reveals Several Nearly Empty Stadiums As Fans Continue to Leave [tr]
Breitbart ^ | October 16. 2017 | Dylan Gwinn

Posted on 10/16/2017 7:31:56 AM PDT by C19fan

The NFL likely hoped for a return to normalcy for Week 6, especially after Commissioner Goodell’s call to “move past the anthem controversy,” and address the issue in detail at league meetings on Tuesday. Instead, what the NFL got was a return to what has become the “new normal” in the age of anthem protests: empty seats.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: felonsleague; football; nfl; nflratings; nflstadiums
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To: McGavin999
"Wait until next year when people don’t renew their season tickets"

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if they will offer half price deals.

21 posted on 10/16/2017 7:52:04 AM PDT by Bob Celeste
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To: Pollster1
Last night I ate at a restaurant that used to have NFL or college football on whenever a game was on. But instead they had the European version of football - soccer. Five screens I could see and not one was NFL.

As a musician, I spend a lot of time in pubs and taverns. The big screen TVs over the bars have always had football.

Lately though, I am seeing MLB, Soccer, even BOXING, and very little, if any, NFL.

And, mind you, this is in MASSACHUSETTS!
22 posted on 10/16/2017 7:52:15 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: Bob Celeste

I’m wondering if Super Bowl advertisers have started trying to re-negotiate advertisement rates.


23 posted on 10/16/2017 7:53:33 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: C19fan

And, to piss even more people off, the lack of a sellout means no local TV coverage.


24 posted on 10/16/2017 7:53:44 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: C19fan
Fox skipped the Anthem for the Bears/Ravens game. When they returned from the commercial break, it sounded like the crowd was booing. Maybe there was some kneeling going on?

How long before the Air Force stops their Anthem flybys if they're not going to get any TV time?
25 posted on 10/16/2017 7:53:54 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: C19fan

Atlanta United, their MLS franchise is outdrawing the Falcons.


26 posted on 10/16/2017 7:54:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: marron

i’m retired now. However, I used to be responsible for purchasing decisions that accounted for 8k to 15k a year to an NFL team. I felt the same way as a younger executive as I do now and would not be spending my marketing dollars on the NFL.

I would be telling the team, I bought these Club level seats and passes and I can’t get a refund, but I am not spending money in the club and next year there is a big check you aren’t getting because I will not renew them.


27 posted on 10/16/2017 7:54:59 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It has already dribbled down to high school football. Homoerotic hero worship type stuff.


28 posted on 10/16/2017 7:56:40 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: McGavin999
"Wait until next year when people don’t renew their season tickets"

BINGO! Right now, a lot of season ticket holders are selling their seats online at a huge loss and the people that buy them are obviously going.

Next year, the season tickets won't be bought, and the people that are buying the heavily discounted tickets this year aren't going to pay full price next year. Ticket prices will plunge, remaining season ticket holders will be pissed they paid so much for what is now selling for dirt, and the whole cycle will repeat itself the following year.

Owners whose only "assets" are a TV contract, season ticket holders, and some ad revenue, will see the value of all three drop substantially, while their liabilities (prima-donna contracts) remain constant. NFL team value plunges.

29 posted on 10/16/2017 8:00:50 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: McGavin999

Too bad season ticket holders can’t get their money back. The NFL doesn’t care. They’ve already pocketed the $$$$$$.


30 posted on 10/16/2017 8:01:33 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: C19fan

Like most here. I can live without the NFL.
No longer interested. Let the thugs enjoy it.


31 posted on 10/16/2017 8:01:43 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: xone
Tell that to a parent who has lost loved ones who gave their lives so that these ungrateful thugs can earn millions and live in comfort and celebrate the coming holidays with loved one.. while those parents, spouses or children will probably spend the holidays at their grave sites! Thousands of dollars can't compare to a life!! Sorry ain't buying it!
32 posted on 10/16/2017 8:03:02 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: C19fan

Weekly TV viewership has been dropping 8-10% per week. It will be interesting to see this past weekend’s numbers.

Based on those pix, ticket sales are likely down significantly, too.

That ‘weak-kneed’ apology from the NFL commish and owners apparently wasn’t too appeasing.


33 posted on 10/16/2017 8:04:20 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: C19fan

Owners starting to panic. “Moving past”, is telling... Popcorn time.


34 posted on 10/16/2017 8:04:53 AM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Bob Celeste
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if they will offer half price deals.

They will. I used to have baseball season tickets. Then came the 1994-95 baseball strike. Maybe the players had some valid grievances, but I was ticked at the highly paid players walking out on their fans. I didn't renew my tickets. I was called for about 3 years and offered all sorts of deals but never re-upped. I just stopped caring about baseball. Every once in a while I'll watch a couple of games of the world series but that's about it.

35 posted on 10/16/2017 8:07:29 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: C19fan

Not to worry NFL, the ACLU-type libs will pick up the slack. Right?


36 posted on 10/16/2017 8:07:39 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Alberta's Child
And you won’t see many fans boycotting those college teams, either.

I can understand that. Big University football Saturday is a school spirit kind of thing for young twentysomethings. They're not old enough yet to think about bigger pictures. That's why even the college protests are just mimicry rather than deeply held beliefs (not that the NFL protests are deeply held, either, but more likely virtue signaling).

They'll get their dose of reality later, when their degrees are worthless and they can't even get a job parking cars at the local NFL stadium on Sundays.

-PJ

37 posted on 10/16/2017 8:09:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: C19fan
The problem is that the NFLPA is getting advice from an organization operated by one George Soros. No wonder why NFL TV viewership and attendance is down--sometimes substantially!
38 posted on 10/16/2017 8:09:11 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RoseofTexas
Thousands of dollars can't compare to a life!! Sorry ain't buying it!

They aren't your thousands or maybe the people using up their tickets don't know any vets. Those who served and died didn't do it for the NFL, the FFL just benefits from their sacrifice.

39 posted on 10/16/2017 8:10:36 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone

I’ll comment whenever I damn well please.


40 posted on 10/16/2017 8:11:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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