Posted on 10/23/2017 3:29:17 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich
HOME SCORES SCHEDULE STANDINGS FANTASY LOG IN Too many bad teams, awful quarterback play making NFL games hard to watch Kaepernick and protests aren't the problem, bad football is the reason ratings, attendance are down Jason La Canfora mugshot by Jason La Canfora @JasonLaCanfora 11h ago • 9 min read
People are staying away from the NFL. Viewership is down and empty seats are up compared to the record ratings of a few years ago. It's hard to argue that fact. Any camera angle that panned across the upper deck in any number of stadiums Sundays confirmed that fact. The issues with ratings are well-documented. It's become convenient to blame that phenomenon, at least in part, on the ongoing issues of player demonstrations but now, nearly a season-and-a-half since Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, I'm not buying it. There's some protesting going on, without a doubt, but it's fans protesting the product being put on the football field, I believe, moreso than any pronounced reaction to a handful of players displaying their Constitutional rights before kick-off. This downturn in the number of eyeballs watching closely every Sunday and Monday and Thursday is much more directly related, in my opinion, to the fact that the number of quarterbacks you would pay big bucks to see in a game with no rooting interest seems to be shrinking by the week.
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Too many commercials. I started giving up on the NFL after watching a punt, followed by a TV timeout, and when the game came back on, there had been a penalty on the punt, so there was a rekick, followed by another TV timeout. There is no flow to the game when there is more commercial time than playing time.
Too stupid to get the message the public is clearly sending to them. Stop the protest antics and make the players stand for the anthem.
This is what Dems are doing about Trump winning. Choosing to dry in their own reality rather than get the clear message voters sent.
NFL has now seen the working clsss stiffs who actually pay their salaries won’t put up with their anti-Americanism. This moron cbs writer tells them that’s not the problem.
Leftists have been trying to decades to kill football. They hate it. Somehow they convinced the players to kill it themselves.
His twitter profile pic is he and Colin Kaepernick.
https://twitter.com/JasonLaCanfora
He’s a hack trying to cover-up the significance of the boycott towards disrespect of our flag.
NFL football was once a scarce commodity: When I was young the only game available each week on TV was your local market team on Sunday. Now we have an endless preseason, early Sunday games, late Sunday games, Sunday night games, Monday night games, Thursday night games, wild-card games, conference playoffs and the Superbowl in February.
The NFL product has exceeded its demand (along with the other issues).
I think what ails the NFL, as well as the NBA and MLB....goes beyond this kneel-action episode.
In the NFL case, you’ve got thirty-two teams and at least twelve of them probably are over-loaded with marginal players. You could see the issue back in 2012 with the Washington Redskins when they had Robert Griffin III. As a back-up quarterback, he might have been ok, but he lacked various skills.
If you look around the league today, and ask the logical question...are there really seats worth $40 to $80 in some of these stadiums? The answer is no. For the 49’ers...no one should be paying more than $15 for a seat to watch a marginal team play. Same for the Browns or Bengal fans.
The NFL (if it ever emerged from this kneeling episode) should go and dissolve at least six teams out of the 32 franchises.
I’d go and suggest the same thing for the NBA. They need to dissolve at least six teams.
If nobody is watching the games, nobody is reading sports columnists either. Trickle down protest.
Yeah sure, bad football is part of it - on any given Sunday, half the games are dogs. But that’s always been there, so it would’ve shown up before now if that was the real reason.
But the 20% decline over the last 2 years is something new for the NFL. And there’s definitely a new sports-media meme desperately being promoted now, that this is NOT due to the protests, it’s, uh, because of “something else” ... like that compelling election campaign last year, or uh, uh, all those great TV shows on this season that are stealing viewers, or, uh ...
Whatever. Keep denying the obvious, you idiots.
Bottom line is NFL gets most of its money from TV, so 20% fewer viewers = a 20% pay cut. For a player making $5 million a year, that’s a loss of $1 million per year.
You know how the players endlessly complain when they get hit with “just” a $15,000 or $20,000 fine for excessive celebrations? Watch the reactions when the SOB’s realize they’ll have to take multi-million-dollar pay cuts.
Instant Karma!!
The NFL is dead. Lesson they all (Commissioner, Owners & Players) never learned....”NEVER, EVER, BITE, THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!!!
What this dunce doesn’t realize is that we don’t know of or care about bad quarterbacks since we don’t watch the Slum Dog Millionaires anyway.
But articles like this are very helpful because they keep feeding the foolishness that keeps the BLM/NFL thugs rolling down hill. They cannot begin to climb back up until they stop rolls down hill.
This guy has no clue...
Prices have dropped so low at the games and they still haven’t filled the stands. What I find funny is this guy is talking about TV viewership and not stadium seating as if they’re two different things.
He really hasn’t got 2 brain cells to rub together here, he’s helping pull the NFL official line right over the cliff, and he’s taking CBS’s credibility (*snicker*) with him.
The fans that actually GO to the games are the diehard, love the sport, love the atmosphere, live breath eat and sleep NFL types. If even THOSE fans are not showing up when the tickets have dropped to almost nothing ($10-15 at many games)then imagine what mediocre fans are doing.
I really hope the people wearing the Neilson monitors feel the same way I do. I have a feeling the Superbowl will have more people tuned in to see the commercials again unfortunately, which the NFL will use as an excuse to justify their position.
There is no Constitutional issue involved here because it is being done in a private setting. The First Amendment right of free speech restricts only government action.
They need to eliminate at least eight teams to get the talent level where it needs to be.
I always felt that the anthem was merely the final straw for something that has been brewing for a long time.
I hold George Halas responsible. Basically, professional football is not interesting enough to sustain interest. Everybody is just realizing it now.
Agree, plus they are company reps in uniform. Employees are not free to say or do whatever they want while on the clock. If the company (teams) allow this, they are endorsing it and should suffer the consequences.
And I hate instant replay. Train your officials better.
I agree partly with you. The bad football has always been there, but I believe even more bad quarterbacking, bad officiating, long and tedious replays to determine miniscule rule infractions and consecutive commercial time-outs all are contributing to the fans watching less and less of the NFL.
But the author is in definite denial. All of the above has pushed most fans to the brink, and the anthem protests have pushed many, many fans, myself included, over the brink. In other words, when we are protesting and boycotting the anthem protests, the bad football does not tempt us to go back. We can feel secure that our protest is the right thing to do and we’re sure we really aren’t missing much.
I’d rather watch a flag football game than the NFL! Heck, I would rather watch soccer, lacrosse and F1 before NFL now.
What's the stat ?: in 60 minutes of football (3 hours) there's less than 7 minutes of action, or some such...iirc.
Sadly, it's like congress. We hate Congress, but keep re-electing our particular congressperson. We hate the NFL and disrespectful players, but still have an interest in our local favorite. My guys haven't taken any knees and likely will not.
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