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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Are the same people who told us Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning are telling us nfl ratinggs are up. Hmmmm Empty seats each week mean nothing?
Oh come on, that dog show was silly, although it was pretty funny (the guy at my thanksgiving missed the channel by 1, so we spent 15 minutes watching stuck-up people parading dogs around).
Hmm, you seem to want to boycott every sport with a ball in it that has athletes that are violent.
Does that include hockey?
A puck is made out of rubber and is circular if not ball shaped and the players get in lots of fights.
If I boycott that too do I get to wear a Fonzie jacket?
Lots of fancy bars charts and graphs. Follow your favorite team ! What team will boast of most arrests? Hos keeping you down ? Slap ‘em around and tune in to your favorite broadcaster !
Don’t watch hockey, don’t give a puck. Next try Thugball boi?
Don’t look at me—my lifetime boycott of the un-American NFL continues apace.
So I don't have to cancel my NHL league pass? That's a relief.
So what sports make you cool by watching. Is it Cricket?
Never heard of fights between Cricket players.
Dressage? Can't get in fights wearing a top hat outside cartoons.
Please make a list. Please?
Scoring has always equaled entertainment for the lowest common denominator casual sports fan. To casual fans, really good defense looks like someone being mugged in NBA and NFL.
My biggest beef with the NFL has always been that the players can’t or won’t self police each other, thus raging hulk poses and fruity gyrations after meaningless plays in blow outs. They had to come up with lame rules for players acting like a jerk ‘excessively’. How lame is a sport when the players don’t care that someone performed a chest slapping display after simply falling on a loose ball?
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It helps we have not only exciting new quarterbacks playing great, but older quarterbacks are playing great (well, except interestingly for Tom Brady).
No. Bell is an idiot. The franchise tag makes a lot of whining, but in the end it’s actually good for the player (top 3 salary for your position). Bell’s problem is he refuses to understand that given where he is in the league drug protocol AND his injury history nobody is giving him a long term high money high guarantee contract. Next he’s going to be lucky to get one year at 10 million with an optional second. Most players don’t care about the franchise tag, much like how most players don’t care about the player behavior policy. Less than a dozen players a year get tagged, there’s over 1500 players in the league, it’s a non-issue for most.
Brees is playing the best of his career and he's almost as old as Brady.
Nah, chump, keep shilling for your ThugBall.
That chart is almost as bad as the one Sports Illustrated ran which illustrated the number of out-of-wedlock children fathered by players in the NBA.
It’s enough to start a small Caribbean country.
That actually was a good game, neither defense could stop anything but both had defensive touchdowns so it wasn’t just a track race like most NFL games have become. It was indicative of the “new” NFL, though: teams sign a boatload of free agents with the money they save from lucking into a good rookie QB on a rookie’s contract, try to win a super bowl quickly before the window closes and that QB starts demanding the big bucks. Meanwhile Defenses around the league are so hamstrung by idiotic new rules that offenses can easily put 40 points up a game.
It’s boring. We already have this no-defense football, it’s called the Big 12.
That wasn’t an NFL decision. That was a TV and liquor company decision. For ages the liquor companies did not advertise on TV at all, sort of a gentleman’s agreement between them and the networks. Then Seagrams decided to end it in the 90s, did the negotiations and here we are. NFL didn’t care.
https://vinepair.com/articles/why-no-liquor-ads-tv/
The owners passed an anti-kneeling rule in the off season, which would have been a good first step.
The players filed a union grievance and stopped it from taking effect.
There were kneelers the first weekend. I have to presume if they’ve gone this far to defend their ability to do it that it’s still happening and we just aren’t being shown.
You can thank the Jimmy Johnson during his coaching stint at University of Miami for this boorish behavior. He never controlled his players, and it crept into the pros.
It would be interesting to find out if the NFL had meetings with network news executives and they asked them to downplay the issue.
It would be an easy sell for the NFL because they didn't like Trump controlling the narrative and news outlets would be more than happy to take this issue from Trump.
*I am not one of the viewers. Haven't watched a game for a couple of years.
There were kneelers the first couple weeks of the season.
After that nothing except for a 49’ers cheerleader at the beginning of this month which was widely covered by the media.
No, the media is not covering it up, the players don’t like empty stadiums either.
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