Posted on 10/06/2017 8:09:03 AM PDT by 11th_VA
It seems like everyone is mad at the NFL, whether you are young and old, male or female, and just about any ethnic identity you could think of. Pick a reason game quality, protests during the national anthem, support for exiled quarterbacks, support for the President and it will likely be used as someones cause for tuning away from the league this season.
Because were all just grasping at straws a bit, its important to get an honest look at the NFLs television viewership through the first four full weeks of this season, to go beyond P.R. puffery and media punditry. Compared to past ratings analysis, this quarter-season deep dive moves away from the traditional ad sales demos (adults aged 18-49 and 25-54) due to the overlap of the two age groups. Instead, these are snapshots of ages 18-34, 35-54 and 55+.
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Through the first four weeks, the average NFL telecast among the measured networks was watched by 15.79 million viewers, which is still quite a large amount, but down 7% versus the same period in 2016 where the average game was viewed by 16.96 million people. The decline was a little steeper between 2015 and 2016 where the average game slipped by 9%.
While many tried to pin the 16 drops on coverage of the presidential election, it was a volatile hurricane season that had a direct impact on the Gulf Coast markets in early September. (Certainly the loss of life and property damage is more important than ratings, even to Nielsen itself.) Yet, for those still exploring the Election Day theory, the first four weeks of the 2013 season were 5% better than 2012....
(Excerpt) Read more at awfulannouncing.com ...
They did it to themselves.
SELF-inflicted ..... evidently, stuck on stupid, too.
What a business plan! Okay guys let’s go out there every time, make spectacles of ourselves, and see how many customers we can piss off!!
That's certainly what it looks like.
Perhaps there's another country where the fans will be more to their liking.
Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.
That's completely different.
A 6-12% decline YoY, compounded, is a slow bleed at best.
It looks like the NFL has 10 years left, at least. And that’s too long.
Maybe they should raise ticket prices. And bring back Janet Jackson for a wardrobe malfunction encore.
All I see are anti-American cow chip on their shoulder THUGS on the field !!! Not all but the majority...my hubby who is an avid sports fan hasn’t turned on football since the dust up!!!he is truly pissed!! And even now more so than ever since that thug football player gave his fans the fmiddle finger!
“The games started to become unwatchable several years ago as the time between plays starting resembling baseball with constant referee huddles, sock throwing and commercials.
From the 2 minute warning to the end of the game could take 25 minutes.”
The allotted time for NFL games on TV is 3 hours and they typically run over by about 30 minutes per game. The game of course is 60 minutes per the game clock. Studies have been done to determine how much of that there is actual action on the field. It turns out it is approximately 11 minutes.
The games started to become unwatchable several years ago as the time between plays starting resembling baseball with constant referee huddles, sock throwing and commercials.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406
That’s not at all what makes the game unwatchable.
None of that has anything to do with anything.
Its all due to tv network and advertising money...networks run by flaming libs...most advertisers have some liberal (read profitable) need to serve liberal bias...so the league has become an afterthought now that the market is “locked” in..expect it to become less and less of an attraction and its success will resemble a company whose product line is outmoded and will be superceded by other forms of athletic competition.
I stopped watching last year too. My family has 8 season tickets to the Denver Broncos since 1975. That’s a lot of years and money. I truly love football and I do miss it.
“Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.”
Yes, I love the smell of schadenfreude on Sundays.
The article seems to be diverting attention way from the National Anthem protests being the problem. Instead, it blames other things. For example, it blames the NFL's "support" of the President.
Huh?
You’re assuming that this trend will continue. I’m not so sure. It might settle down to this new normal and they’ll be happy to live with that.
I can even see some addicts that have temporarily given up the opiate regressing and sneaking back, unless the players and the league keep being stupid.
The NFL has successfully moved itself into the condition usually associated with wearing a new pair of shoes that causes blisters. You want to get them off as quickly as possible, leaving you with a painful memory.
Ditto. With the kneeling business, the felons, the wife-beaters...
I just found that I couldn't continue to watch and remain true to my values.
I don't actively "hate" the NFL. I just don't care any more.
Yeah, I’ve noticed some going back to the dope too.
Disgraceful humans who support anti-American humans.
Directly and overtly.
And deep down inside they know that’s what they are doing, all the while giving lip service to their hatred for those shitting on the graves of dead heroes.
Then writing them a check every Sunday.
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