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Failing NFL Ratings Slump Continues
Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/26/2017 6:40:09 PM PST by Kaslin

Well, who would have thought that putting out a bad product and spitting on the American flag would be bad for ratings. The National Football League has seen its week eleven ratings and they’re not good: one million fewer viewers from last year. The NY Post reported that the ongoing battle between Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been the center of NFL coverage. Goodell has put up insane contract demands of a $50 million salary, along with free flights, and health care for his family—for life. This coming from a man who has failed miserably to handle the national anthem protests that has engulfed the league in controversy:

The TV audience for NFL games steepened its slide in Week 11, losing 1 million viewers versus last year’s season-to-date average.

The 6.3 percent slump — worsening from comparable declines of 5.6 to 5.7 percent during the previous three weeks — plagued a week whose off-the-field drama made gridiron tackling seem almost tame by comparison.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remained the major distraction by continuing to battle with fellow team owners and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Jones brought even more tension to Week 11 when video footage surfaced late last week of the football tycoon making a racially charged remark at a 2013 wedding party.

President Donald Trump added to the off-field antics with a tweet calling for the suspension of the Oakland Raiders’ Marshawn Lynch for not standing for the national anthem during a game played in Mexico City.

Most thought Donald Trump picked a cultural battle he couldn't win when he trashed NFL players who took a knee during the Star-Spangled Banner back in September. Well, that just wasn’t the case, as the overwhelming majority thought taking a knee during the anthem was unpatriotic and disrespectful. Also, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, not Trump, fired the first salvo. Kaepernick spent Thanksgiving celebrating “Unthanksgiving” at Alcatraz.   

Today, I was on Alcatraz Island at the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering, in solidarity with those celebrating their culture and paying respects to those that participated in the 19 month occupation of Alcatraz in an effort to force ???? to honor the Treaty of Fort Laramie. pic.twitter.com/KdNtY3dp72— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) November 24, 2017



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To: vette6387

Good points.

If 10% of Disaffected NFL fans spent as much time on politics as they did on football... we might turn the country around!


21 posted on 11/26/2017 6:55:44 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

yes, we’ve discovered that dog shows (and the ones where the pooches compete, run courses, etc) are much much more interesting than NFL.. surprisingly perhaps but they’re fascinating!
and the dogs don’t try to insult or show contempt for us, the audience, either


22 posted on 11/26/2017 6:57:43 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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Superbowl. That multiweek hyped time when a bunch of illiterate millionairs who are not from the city play for a team that is only loyal to a city for as long as they can bilk the taxpayers for a new stadium, around a little kids ball in between commercials and interrupted midway through with a super krappy hate filled left wing political indoctrination masquerading as a pop music show that can be described as mediocre at best. I think my time would be more productive sanding my eyeballs while carving all the letters of the alphabet into my teeth with an emery board then chewing on some nice tasty aluminum foil


23 posted on 11/26/2017 7:00:56 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: mylife

How do the stands look? I saw a lot of empty seats right now, but it’s halftime.


24 posted on 11/26/2017 7:01:24 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Texas Eagle

“I’ve taken my boycott one step further. I watch soccer whenever there’s a football game on whenever possible.”

I’d rather watch high school football.


25 posted on 11/26/2017 7:02:00 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: RayChuang88

Don’t watch the far left , racist players anymore. Screw them. The only way for the NFL to wake up, and be American is for us to boycott them.


26 posted on 11/26/2017 7:02:42 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: sparklite2

Ah yes, that scene is from the Star Trek episode with the tribbles.


27 posted on 11/26/2017 7:03:03 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: faithhopecharity

Hit the high school games...


28 posted on 11/26/2017 7:03:09 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Billyv

3 of us since I , and the family have boycotted them


29 posted on 11/26/2017 7:03:41 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Kaslin

The NFL is showing weakness by keeping Roger Goodell, they should replace him with Al Sharpton.


30 posted on 11/26/2017 7:03:55 PM PST by Entropy Squared (The Rush to Chaos)
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To: dfwgator

Not rooting for anyone since they are racist, anti American.


31 posted on 11/26/2017 7:04:32 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah, that’s the trouble with it. ;)


32 posted on 11/26/2017 7:05:20 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Blue dogs thank you for your support
33 posted on 11/26/2017 7:05:35 PM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Kaslin

I think this us all headed for an NFL rule for next year that the anthem is to be played before the players take the field


34 posted on 11/26/2017 7:06:56 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Kaslin

No NFL in our house.


35 posted on 11/26/2017 7:07:40 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

Won’t watch the NFL, only college and of course, the CFL. (Stamps won the Grey Cup today! They beat the Tranna Argonauts 24-16.)


36 posted on 11/26/2017 7:07:47 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Kaslin

37 posted on 11/26/2017 7:08:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Hojczyk

we haven’t done highschool games yet but some college games are loads of fun to watch.....


38 posted on 11/26/2017 7:12:04 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: marktwain

I don’t think Condi wants to push for the job.
She may have had enough with people hating her because she was part of the Bush White House. Condi may be reluctant to jump back into that noisy Snake Pit of the media.
I hope I’m wrong. Her being given that appointment would be a real sea change and would attract a tremendous amount of attention.

This may be a somewhat thankless job that very few would willingly take, because no matter what side you favor, there is always going to be someone who hates your guts with a passion.


39 posted on 11/26/2017 7:14:30 PM PST by lee martell
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To: dfwgator

“all LA superbowl”

That would serve them right. It’d be a fitting way to end this debacle.


40 posted on 11/26/2017 7:15:35 PM PST by hardspunned
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