Posted on 09/28/2017 7:03:49 PM PDT by Enlightened1
This had to hurt. NFL ticket sales down 18% down this week.
Last Sunday over 200 NFL players knelt during the US national anthem on Gold Star Mothers Day.
StubHub announced a 10% discount in NFL tickets this week.
And now this…
NFL ticket sales are down 18% compared to last year at this time.
The Washington Examiner reported:
The National Football League is feeling the impact of the “Trump Effect.”
Ticket sales since he called on team owners to fire players who take a knee to protest the National Anthem have cratered.
The online ticket reseller TickPick told Secrets that sales have dropped 17.9 percent, far more than the usual Week Three fall.
From TickPick:
- 17.9 percent decrease in NFL orders this week compared to the previous week.
- Last year the drop was 10.8 percent in orders on Monday & Tuesday following Week Three games.
“We have seen a massive decrease in NFL ticket purchases this past week in comparison to years past. Week 3 seems to usually have less ticket orders than week 2, but this year ticket purchases are down more than 7 percent from this time last year,” said TickPick’s Jack Slingland.
Several Chargers players torched their shirts and jackets this week.
NEVER underestimate an American's Love for our Flag.
We stand UNITED in protest against the #NFL
.@realDonaldTrumppic.twitter.com/hNLNo0pGBs
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
means little...the cascading boos that reigned down from the fans last week has scared the crap out of the owners...
there was not a peep when players knelt during the 2016 season but that all changed last week- further proof Trump’s comments were a stroke of genius and hit the right chord- he basically told everyone its okay to disagree with these d-bags, its okay to boo, its okay to boycott...
the NFL made the mistake of drawing a battle line Saturday night between their product and the consumer...
for the sake of transparency i will tell you i am in the football scouting business...
Agree. I’m on my phone and didn’t get a good first look.
Any insight into how they could have misjudged the situation this badly?
yes but i don’t know of a single Jets player that has knelt during the anthem since this BS started....
i do know several people who walked away from their PSL’s and just said “F it”...the issue is not so much the team but that stadium, metlife, its an effing disaster...
“The NFL is in a box.”
~ President Trump
no clue other than 1) there was little pushback from the fans when this BS went down in 2016 2)they are HUGE into social media and everything was trending “take a knee” on twitter, etc...
it was an unbelievable miscalculation from a league that would not allow the Dallas Cowboys to wear a decal honoring the five officers assassinated at the BLM march last year...
they are panicked as they understand there is no easy way out...my opinion is they hope the players stand and it goes away...
Those dark spots on the ceiling are the fire sprinkler system. It doesn’t take a lot of heat to trip one.
If the league doesn’t grow a pair and punish the kneelers, I would not care if the entire organization went bankrupt.
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My gosh are they that afraid of the race exploit industry like the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons? Its their business and rules, which they do have for the national anthem and such.
It's very sad if they are afraid of enforcing their own rules because of tyrants like the race exploit industry. The NFL owners have gone completely ball-less. We desperately need an anti-political correctness movement in this country. Maybe all this will spark that.
CGato
Keep in mind that the Jets are owned by Robert Wood Johnson IV, who serves as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and lives right across the road from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ. I think the team would go to great lengths to avoid putting him in a difficult position.
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More like the NFL is feeling the "oops we moved two teams to a city that doesn't care about NFL football" effect. TV ratings are where they are getting the "Trump Effect".
I will be more excited when it climbs toward 30 or even 50%. They will be squealing like pigs stuck under a gate
The owners, League, Networks and such losing money? I think that this madness is about over.
There's a price to pay for 'playing the race card' now that didn't exist last year... a culture shift is happening. Thanks for the insights. I suspect you're right on every count.
Watched the crowd and reaction tonight.
Stadium looked filled, fans normal.
The one thing I didn’t see was the fans locking arms as Rodgers wanted.
Then I shut the game off.
“Everything that should be up is down. - Al Gore, 1992.”
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Including Billy Clinton’s pants.
The stadium is packed, as usual. I think you are blind. They have had sell outs for decades - tonight is no different.
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