[Alberta's Child]

I think the Kaepernick situation is overblown when it comes to the decline in ratings. These are probably much bigger factors, in my opinion:

The sport is overlong, packing a whopping 11 minutes of action into a commercial-stuffed four hours of viewing time. Except for a few quarterbacks, the players are largely interchangeable and anonymous. And the television presentation itself is essentially unwatchable, filled with graphics that add nothing to the enjoyment of the sport.

The NFL has a demographics problem. Fewer and fewer young people have any interest in football, and it's becoming obvious to more people that what is described above barely qualifies as "entertainment" in today's world.

[jazusamo]

I look at the Kaepernick situation as the straw that broke the camels back.

[boycott]

I think the Kaepernick situation is overblown when it comes to the decline in ratings.

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It’s a good excuse for me to tune out.

There’s so much football on TV now that I was kind of getting bored with it. I’ll watch a few college games over the weekend now but that’s about it.

[Bigtigermike]

Not true. There may be certain areas or pockets of the country where it’s not as big as it use to be but in places like South and Midwest it’s still a big deal for youth and will continue to be for the continuing future. It’s religion

[pepsi_junkie]

I have to admit that watching games isn't that much fun. I used to love football, I'd watch about four games each week. But Rodger Goodell has decided to strip mine all the fun and excitement out of it. There's a flag on every play because of the obsessive insistence on punishing pass defense and "protecting the quarterback". Who wants to watch a game where the officials decide everything? It's boring. Not to mention that nobody even knows what a catch is anymore, it's all very arbitrary. The officials became the show and the show began to suck.

And then there's all the social justice lefty propaganda they have been forcing down our throats for watching their ever increasingly awful product. Candlelight pre-game shows to fight global warming, pink everywhere, "no means no" ads, black panther halftime shows, and super boring PC super bowl commercials with all the fun stripped out. Kapernick and his followers are just the players taking their cues from the league and stealing their PC lefty spotlight and making it their own PC lefty spotlight. It's just not a fun pastime really.

I no longer watch four or five games a week. Over the past few years I watched my Eagles and maybe one other game, if there was a good one one. Now? I still watch the Eagles. That's it.

[cherry]

who was that big guy that did football?...the turduckin guy?....now that was entertainment...

[rb22982]

So why were ratings up the last two years?