Is Game Night at the Sports Bar Becoming a Thing of the Past?

NBC News ^ | Sept 24, 2017 | Nichole Spector

[11th_VA]

With NFL season in full swing, fans should be packing into sports bars on Sundays — so why are so many streaming the game at home instead?

Recent research from Foursquare found that in 2016, Sunday sports bar foot traffic dropped by 12 percent in cities with NFL teams; cities without their own teams saw a 13 percent drop. Furthermore, there was a 10 percent decline in people who went to a sports bar more than three times during the 17-week season, while only 40 percent of fans who had been to sports bars more than six times during the 2015 season repeated this behavior in 2016...

[dragnet2]

The retired deputy customer who is still playing cop at the bar you mentioned, ought to keep his private background information to himself and avoid broadcasting it. It’s highly recommended.

[left that other site]

I am not a smoker, but there is truth in what you say.

Back in the Day, some of the best Music was played in “smoke-filled rooms”. Blues, Jazz, Rock, Country....all of it.

[stars & stripes forever]

[why are so many streaming the game at home instead]

SAVING $$$$$$$$$$

[Biggirl]

Look for more specials in regards to the Saturday college game which has gain some interest.

[Digger]

I talked to a few younger football fans of my acquaintance (mostly white, early 20’s, no vets). Most of them don’t care about the anthem controversy. They just want to watch pro football. And they will continue doing so. So it seems (from my limited data) that - given enough time - this thing will eventually blow over.

This is what corrupt public schools, media, movies have done to a once great nation.

[Biggirl]

What btw, would replace the NFL or football in the future?

[gunnyg]

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[aquila48]

“Recent research from Foursquare found that in 2016, Sunday sports bar foot traffic dropped by 12 percent in cities with NFL teams; cities without their own teams saw a 13 percent drop.”

It’s an absolute mystery, just like we’ll never know the motives of Islamists butchering people.

[qam1]

My point is that those young people will eventually age into that core audience. So if the NFL is patient...

There's also the fact that young people today are more Hispanic and Asian. Both groups are generally too small to play and aren't big football fans anyhow.

[dfwgator]

Monday Night Rehabilitation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLts-sXlLEM

[Leaning Right]

> There’s also the fact that young people today are more Hispanic and Asian. Both groups are generally too small to play and aren’t big football fans anyhow. <

Good point. Perhaps soccer, not anthem protests, will eventually do in the NFL.

[Biggirl]

I predict that baseball will regain its role once again as “America’s pastine” down the road.

[dfwgator]

Atlanta United is outdrawing the Falcons.

[I am Richard Brandon]

NFL tickets - too expensive
DirecTV NFL - too expensive
DirecTV NFL - too many commercials
NFL players - too opinionated
NFL owners - too rich and too greedy

[Paulie]

“So it seems (from my limited data) that - given enough time - this thing will eventually blow over.”

Maybe.

But the problems will still remain. The anti-American left never sleeps or gives up; nothing satisfies them except total domination.

[topspinr]

In 1948 when the Anerican Football League emerged, went to a bar/restaurant owned by a Yugoslav who gave us blocks of tickets so we could hand them out to friends to watch the 49’s play at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Think Brody was the first quarterback for the niners.

[Leaning Right]

> But the problems will still remain. <

Absolutely. My concern is that the next generation will accept as normal what we are repulsed by. The anthem protests are a form of tribalism, tribe before country. That’s how nations die.

[\/\/ayne]

If they could, the left would embed a chip in your head that tells you all day how much you suck and how much your neighbors hate you.

Outer Limits: Soldier. This clip shows a soldier in the future with a helmet that constantly tells him to attack and kill. I watched it recently and your comment instantly brought that to mind. Yes, they would certainly do that if they could.

[Paulie]

“My concern is that the next generation will accept as normal what we are repulsed by.”

You’re right on that.

I hope not, but...

[Gen.Blather]

“What btw, would replace the NFL or football in the future?”

Facebook and Google have a huge percentage of the advertising dollars locked up. Advertising is the real life blood of the NFL. The NFL’s audience was already shrinking when the premadonna players went on their self-damaging political snit. You have to ask where all those former viewers were going. I don’t know the answer but I’d speculate that they were spread like peanut butter across a variety of options. Computer gaming for the younger set is one possibility. Streaming content is another possibility. Just occupied by social media is another. Today’s kids, (tomorrow’s viewers) raised as they were with participation trophies for just showing up, simply aren’t interested in sports.

I used to watch TV every day. I haven’t owned a TV since the OJ trial. I am busy every minute. If you asked me doing what, I’d have to sit and list dozens of things. Life just fills the void, regardless of why that void is there.