[EdnaMode]

Ratings are down 12%! Winning!

[Lurkinanloomin]

I gave up the NFL last year when the league did not take any action to stop the anti-American nonsense.

[Snickering Hound]

Here are the particulars from Thursday: NBC was a clear No. 1 among adults 18-49, with the 14.6 more than doubling the primetime averages for the other three Big 4 broadcast networks combined. Additionally, that gaudy Nielsen number is the best rating for any network telecast since June 12.

Fewer people watching television period.

[Grampa Dave]

A good start!

[Red Badger]

There was one ‘sitter’ last night, #22 of the Chiefs..................

[cld51860]

I turned the game off in the third quarter. Long, drawn out and boring, just because of the stoppages, and WAY too many flags. Tedious to watche, anymore.

[Alas Babylon!]

I turned it off when it appeared Brady wouldn’t be having a perfect season.

[hadaclueonce]

I am taking a knee again this year.

[Fair Paul]

They’ll probably blame the decline on the hurricane, just like they did last year with the election. It’s never the fault of the NFL that their product just isn’t good anymore. I started turning out way before the Kapernick nonsense.

[BuffaloJack]

Sorry, I won’t support anti-American conduct.
I don’t plan on watching any football or supporting any of their sponsors until football becomes an American sport again.

[RayChuang88]

If the NFL doesn't put an end to the Kaepernick-related political fried bologna sandwich soon, the ratings are going to really tank.

[DoodleDawg]

Missed a great game.

[catnipman]

F—— NBC. They made a big deal of Chief’s P.o.S. cornerback sitting during the anthem, pointing the cameras at him and two different commentators making comments about it. NBC could have EASILY just not this anti-American F-head, and concentrated exclusively on the 99.9% of the patriotic players.

Mrs. Catnipman walked out and refused to watch the game right then and there.

[Pride in the USA]

I think we will continue to see this downward trend.

[Dixie Yooper]

Half of the viewing audience wiped out in Texas and everyone else is glued to the Weather Channel. I would like to think that it had something to do with sitters, but there are other things going on right now...

[jalisco555]

The decline is multi-factorial. Thuggish players, poor reffing, 3 1/2 hours to watch 11 minutes of play, and of course the politics. As a physician I am very bothered by the concussion issue and the league’s response to it. This was a major factor for me.

[bgill]

Pandering to the kneelers has consequences.

[Cen-Tejas]

Goodell, Kaepernick and ESPN are to the NFL what Barrack Obama was to the Democratic Party!

We all should contribute to a high statue of Barrack Obama constructed at the highest point on Alcatraz so that all SFO Liberals could wake up around noon each day, roll over and be able to see the single biggest destructor of the Democratic Party that ever lived.

[Molon Labbie]

If the NFL coaches and owners had any guts they would tell those taking knees and sitting down, if you do that, you sit out the whole season.

And in any other profession, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thanks to #22 Peters seated while the national anthem was played.

[right way right]

That is a pretty bad drop for the NFL.
They need to wake up it it gets worse.