Posted on 09/22/2017 11:55:35 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Looks like folks are voting with their feet and wallets.....
Anyone send this photo to Roger Goodell?
It's probably easier to smoke weed up there without anyone bother you. LOL.
It’s not that shocking - a 5:30 pm kickoff on a Thursday night in Silicon Valley is madness. Most people with season tickets (I’m one) are either still at work or driving home from work in heavy traffic. The entire idea of Thursday night games is asinine - teams haven’t had enough time to recover from the previous Sunday and the quality of play is obviously worse. Also, because the NFL and the network want the premium games for Sunday, Thursday night gets terrible matchups like 49ers-Rams.
Commercial television is on their way to be dead.
Eight tracks, VHS, cassette tapes, Blockbuster video is all a nostalgic things of the past.
Commercial cable TV is on its way to the same graveyard.
Landlines are right behind it.
White privilege!
What’s NFL? What’s football? What’s ESPN.
Won’t watch until it becomes American again.
I didn’t bother to ask my wife to watch TNF because not even I had any interest in this stinker.
Last week at the Baltimore Raven’s home game against the Browns the stadium was almost at full capacity .
How they got people to stay in nosebleed sections? The whole stadium is reserved seating, your ticket has your assigned seats on it. You can’t just go downstairs to a better more expensive seat just because it’s empty.
My father took us to football games at 'The Rockpile' to watch the Buffalo Bills. We'd find a place to park on a street, and he'd buy a six pack on the way. We'd find some burgers or hotdogs, or some BBQ guys would make on their front yard. Great times, and I doubt we spent $20 for a great day out. I spent over $800 to take 3 of my boys to game in Jacksonville 15 years ago.
The next generation will find football too expensive, and many will gravitate to the soccer most of them play.
Boycott the NFL!
Good. I’m sick of the move to enforce PC.
Hollywood is not far behind
Good point.
And yet despite the “terrible match-up”, it was one of the more entertaining games so far this season.
I absolutely agree with you about the length of time between Sunday and Thursday and how ridiculous it is to schedule games where teams only have 3 days of recovery and preparation. The NFL SAYS all kinds of wonderful things about player safety and then DOES things like TNF. They ought to reduce TNF to not have any before the bye season. Then you could schedule TNF between two teams that had their byes the previous Sunday, so proper game planning can be done and the players are relatively fresh and healthy...
The low attendance also could be due to the terrible traffic problems and the fact that only a minority of Angelenos wanted a team in the first place. Now they have to contend with higher cable fees and blackouts. I really hope the people who brought the team there lose everything.
That’s why I’m happy we don’t have football and baseball major league teams here. We get to see all the games of we want.
There are lots of alternatives. High School football is a great deal. Minor league baseball (even though I hate baseball!) is a good night out with friends. College sports is not cheap but always fun.
I could never afford to go to Disney as a child, but was fortunate to live in Jacksonville and Disney was a day trip. Best time to go is October.
But I don't believe the NFL understands the demographic changes, and the economic realities that will hit them very soon.
Oh da owniz, I bet dey jus hate dashit! :)
One can only hope.
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