Posted on 11/06/2017 9:09:32 AM PST by EdnaMode
At the halfway point now in the NFL season, the much traveled Oakland Raiders pulled off a Sunday Night Football win against the Miami Dolphins as yet again protest stole much of the game’s thunder. The Raiders’ Week 9 27-24 victory saw the Dolphins’ Michael Thomas, Julius Thomas and wide receiver Kenny Stills kneel during the national anthem.
That’s the first such protest by players for the Florida franchise since the team’s coach instituted a rule against such displays. It is also the first game for the Dolphins since their owner and the players put together an annual fund for “advocacy and social justice programs” on November 4. On yet another Sunday of big games and Daylight Savings Time catch ups, the SNF protests last night came as ratings for the league are down 5% from the numbers stumbles of last season and nearly 19% from a similar point in the 2015-2016 season.
Pulling focus to last night’s sometimes fog drenched SNF, the NBC broadcast game snared a 9.6/16 in metered market results.
Up a scant 2%, that’s pretty steady with last week’s SNF season low when the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Detroit Lions and SNF faced a very dramatic Game 5 of the 2017 World Series. That 8:30 – 11:30 PM ET game result went on to draw a NFL tepid 4.8/15 among adults 18-49 and 13.86 million viewers. Even with a season of ratings slides, that was a rare loss of a Sunday for the NFL and the Comcast-owned net to the 5.3/17 and 18.94 million that the baseball game and Fox scored.
Year-to-year, last night’s Raiders vs. Dolphins battle declined 18% from the early numbers of the comparable game of last year, which Oakland won.
Yep, back on November 6, 2016, the Raiders solidly took down the Denver Broncos 30-20 at home in the Bay Area on SNF. Also no longer facing a World Series, that Week 9 game of last year eventually ended up with a 6.6/20 rating and 18.33 million viewers. That result was the best SNF had done after several weeks of ratings tackles.
With the numbers coming in a little later today because of the change in the clocks over the weekend, we will later update with more SNF results plus how Wisdom of the Crowd, Shark Tank and other shows. Here, in the meantime, are the local markets MM numbers:
Sacramento – 16.1/27 New Orleans – 16.1/22 San Francisco – 14.3/27 Buffalo – 14.2/22 Richmond- 13.9/21 Miami – 13.6/24 Denver – 13.2/23 Albuquerque – 13.1/20 Las Vegas- 12.7/20 West Palm Beach – 12.5/20
That’s fantastic. I only watch occasional sports now, after watching it all the time for nearly 20 years.
- Roll Tide -
Golf is especially nap-worthy; very soothing.
“Only sports I watched this weekend was Dortmund vs Bayern Munich.Only sports I watched this weekend was Dortmund vs Bayern Munich.”
Futball. Sehr gut.
I didn’t even check scores.
Congrats. Next step is to stop clicking on NFL threads.
Player salaries are tied to advertising revenues - it's almost a one-to-one correlation. The bucket money for salaries comes from TV advertising revenue. That's why its so important not to watch.
I actually went to a Wing's Place last night to pick up Carry-Out. Of course the games were on and I saw advertising I had not seen on regular TV while I waited. It felt good to know I was clueless about a lot of products being advertised during the NFL games because I have not been watching this season.
Chrissy, pussy hat, Collinsworth sucks. ...
I was a two year letterman (er, lettergirl) in high school soccer. Did I play? Oh, heavens no! I was a manager for the boys’ varsity team. I went to enough practices, games and tournaments to learn that...it was not as horrible a sport as I was expecting! The NFL can be replaced.
So three Dolphin players defied their owner? And?
Gee, I wonder why the local Miami media didn’t report about the KNEELING thugs in the Dolphins team.
The sorriest part is that the stadium was nearly full. Disgusting.
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