Posted on 01/29/2018 6:51:50 AM PST by C19fan
When Super Bowl LII kicks off next Sunday with the New England Patriots facing the Philadelphia Eagles, there will be more on the line than the Vince Lombardi Trophy for the winner. A season of turmoil and changing viewer habits has chipped away at what has long been the most durable TV franchise. As the league's marquee event, the Super Bowl has always been bigger than football, drawing non-fans who are partying with friends and watching the big-budget, celebrity-studded commercials priced at $5 million per 30 seconds that will be teased online and presented to an audience of more than 100 million viewers. Spending on Super Bowl ads has surged 35% in the last decade.
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Amen.
I hope ratings are down 20%!
I wonder what qualifications one must have to become the “director of national broadcast” for a “media services firm”.
Talk about non-essential personnel...
I think the REAL test is when the season tickets go on sale.
I have plans to plow the back field next Sunday, can they postpone the Circus??
This entire year, I have remained true to my boycott of all NFL games - even my beloved Packers!
But being that the Super Bowl is here in Minneapolis and I am only a block away from many of the festivities, it’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement here.
I’m going to watch it - albeit with some reservations of breaking my promise earlier this year to boycott. I’m no fan of either team so this may be the first year that I can remember where I really don’t care who wins.
I stopped watching after the second game of the season when the Steelers stayed in the tunnel. Last NFL game for me, period.
I was going to watch, but I have to wash my hair that night.
Anybody know what the ratings were for the pro bowl yesterday?
I find it ironic that Patriots would probably pull this Super Bowl out for the MFL. Patriot fans will be tuning in to see the Patriots win and Patriot haters will be tuning in hoping to see the Patriots get beat.
“I’m going to watch it - albeit with some reservations of breaking my promise earlier this year to boycott. I’m no fan of either team so this may be the first year that I can remember where I really don’t care who wins”
Really standing tall there. Pitiful.
Ditto. Viewer ratings for TV may be a good precursor signal for the NFL, though as the OP notes a lot of non-fans tune in just for the “big game” just because its a spectacle. Ticket holders will (mostly) go because they’ve already paid. It’s the ticket sales for next year’s season that will be the big referendum on the NFL. There were a lot of empty stadium seats this year, even for games that “mattered”. The real question is, how many people who actually showed up for those games only went because they’d already paid, and didn’t want to completely waste the money? Are those people still going to show up next year?
SJW thug ball has no appeal for me.
2 words: Kitten Bowl!
You’re a big Packers fan but live in Minneapolis? Not a Vikings fan?
Wait until conservatives start dropping out of fantasy leagues before next season, then ratings should really crash.
I’ll be watching WWE. I am now a huge fanatic for WWE. Why? My kid had me buy tickets for a show last month and wow, totally blown away. Before the show started they played the national anthem loud as hell with a giant American flag appearing and all the wrestlers were standing up with their hands over their hands staring intently at the flag, the whole place was standing up the same way and when it was over this huge roar of approval took over the whole place, it was really moving. I was like NFL? What the hell is that? And they put on a great show, all the wrestlers after their match went around signing autographs for the kids which blew their mind, no egos towards the fans, no thugs, it was just utter respect for the flag and the fans all the way around and they are coming back May 6th to my area and hell yes we are buying tickets again!
I was going to watch but I’m painting my deck in the afternoon so I’m going to pass on the Super Bowl and watch the paint dry. I’ll also be flying American flag.
My guess: the viewership will be lucky to break 102 million based on Nielsen estimates. Just the hatred of the Patriots and Eagles by many fans across the USA is a big factor in reducing viewership in addition to the political issues.
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