Posted on 11/27/2018 7:58:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
After two seasons of declining ratings, viewing of NFL games is up in 2018. There are a few reasons for the uptick in TV viewing, including a lot of high-scoring games and marquee matchups in prime time.
In 2017, the ratings for the NFL regular season had dropped by 10% from the 2016 season. It marked the second consecutive year ratings had declined. So far, 11 weeks into the 2018 season, NFL ratings are up by 4%, marking the first ratings increase in three years.
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The answer is simpler: They stopped showing and highlighting the kneelers.
Put 'NFL' in a thread title and you will get the football virtue signalers telling you how awesome they are because they don't watch.
Games are more exciting because scores are up and there are close games that aren't decided until the last couple minutes.
New exciting quarterbacks in Los Angeles, Kansas City and Houston that are making different teams hot.
Old powerhouses like the New England Patriots aren't so much anymore and are clearly in decline.
And the protests are over.
Best football game I had seen in some time:
Last Saturday’s DI-FCS playoff game where Duquesne went down to Baltimore and beat a heavily favored Towson State team in a monsoon. At that level the game still means something to the players.
Last year’s Army-Navy game in the snow was outstanding too.
The protests aren’t over, the media is just no longer showing them.
Very interesting link. Since I haven’t watched the NFL in years, I didn’t know they were allowing liquor ads now...
Yes, it was the feminists' goal to take away another "man" event. They have succeeded. I stopped watching when they started dressing in pink, and changing the rules.
The ground can't cause a fumble???? WTF?
It only “appears” that way, and Goodell is wrong. Still half-empty stadia coming towards the end of regular season.
They lost 10% last year and approximately 8% the year before. This year they are gloating about a 4% increase. That’s not a positive trend over three years. A normal business that shrinks close to 20% over two years is not celebrating when they see a recovery of 4%.
I can honestly say I only have 1 friend left who still watches. My father, brother, and I haven’t even passed by a game on TV. My coworkers haven’t been watching so I’m really curious what is happening.
Spoken like a Browns Fan - Go Saints!
There was early in the season but the networks stopped showing them and they've stopped.
A few weeks ago a 49'ers cheerleader kneeled but not a player.
Even ESPN has decided that going political has been a ratings killer and showed the door to the worst offenders.
“Chicks dig the long ball”
Right back at you .Got your favorite jersey on ?
“The protests aren’t over, the media is just no longer showing them.”
That is what the media does to inconvenient stories. Election fraud by the Democrats, Muslim, black, or illegal crimes against whites, positive actions taken by gun owners, or Trump accomplishing something good, etc.
Nope. Wear my university t-shirt on weekends.
Watch NCAA, NFL and even CFL during the summer.
And virtue signaling about who you are boycotting is something liberals do...
OK, Maybe Soccer just needs 50% larger nets.
Tell it to my tea partying Revolutionary War ancestors.
FACT:
NFL is no longer MUST viewing. UNLESS it is a good matchup I don’t even bother tuning in.
Stadium Attendance, as in ASSES in SEATS, is still down.
“Ah, but what are ad rates doing...?”
The NFL’s ad rates are going up.
It’s getting to the point where an average American family of four cannot afford to buy 30 second ad spots during an NFL game.
https://adage.com/article/news/tv-ad-pricing-chart/310429/
Since the protests aren’t being telvised, they aren’t happening ? Good Soviet think.Enjoy your NFL thug ball.
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