Posted on 10/06/2017 5:58:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Four weeks into the current NFL season television ratings are down nearly 10% overall compared to the first four weeks of last season. Sunday’s games in Week 4, according to Nielsen, had the smallest audience of any season so far: an average 14.2 million viewers.
Add that ratings dip to the ongoing controversy around player protests, and you might reasonably wonder how official NFL sponsors, as well as brands that buy advertising during NFL games, feel right now about the league. The answer: “They’re nervous,” says Brian Cristiano, CEO of ad agency Bold Worldwide. “Everyone is looking at the numbers, they’re looking at the ratings… they’re nervous. They’re like, ‘Are we overpaying? What are we going to do? Can we have makeups? How else are we going to get this exposure back?'” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
It’s going to get worse.
Advertisers will flee.
Fans already have.
Really impressed when stupidity trumps common sense. I have no sympathy for these stupid owners; let them lose money as they grovel in the aura of “political correctness.” Fools.
At least I have College football.
Won’t matter what the NFL does
True feelings of the owners and players are out in the open
Don’t care what they do now or in the future
you are tardy, I haven’t watched since 1998.
Better late than never! LOL
Do your part.
Mock them.
Sorry ya feel that way, me personally I gave up on the NFL when they started free agency. Sure I watched here and there but after last years kneeling. I’ve been done for a while now and won’t go back
Hey,
F you typical NFL fan and American patriot, So said the nfl players.
No, f you nfl,
So said the American patriot, f you nfl
At least you didn't chime in, "I haven't had a TV since 1975!"
“I don’t HAVE ulcers - I GIVE ULCERS!”
(One of my Drill Sergeants, back in the day.)
I never keep anything bottled up. I get mad, I sometimes get stabby, it blows over and then we’re all friends again. :)
But not THIS time. These people have p*ssed me off beyond all reason.
BEYOND. ALL. REASON. I want them all financially RUINED. I want their wives to run off with the Pool Boy! I want their children living under bridges and eating in Soup Kitchens and their pets in the pound! I want them STRIPPED of EVERY human luxury imaginable. I want their names dragged through the MUD.
Hear me Goodell? HEAR ME? The BUCK stops with YOU, you PUTZ!
we’re NOT attending and NOT watching NFL!
to Hell with NFL!
advertisers be ready to see a big dip, too
It sucks, doesn’t it? @#$%^&*!
TV got better when they created Pong! don’t you agree! lol
Frankly it took us until this past weekend but we are done. We sent a break up letter to our beloved Seahawks, took down the flags, banners & signs and packed up the Seahawks train. We are done.
I’m not giving up College Ball. Yet. It’s the only thing keeping me tethered to the ground!
Hey, I'm old and my adult kids and I still get into video games!
Ms. Diana, YOU are good!
My kid used to like them, but then he became a father and his attitude changed. thankfully so.
I have contacted the customer service for the few advertisers I actually formerly patronized, and I haven’t even gotten the usual, “We’re sorry if your offended,” response. I guess they don’t really care.
By the way, the Ducks won their season opener. I was watching.
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