Roger Goodell and the Kneelers were right. Just drag this out long enough and people will forget. Look for Pope Francis to replicate this tactic with his sex scandals.
Our population has the attention span of a sand gnat.
It’s not me, I’m in my third year of being NFL free.
“Our population has the attention span of a sand gnat.”
And the intelligence of Ocasio-Cortez.
Our future isn’t bright. (Pun intended).
But the there was a story recently, talking about how NFL attendance at games was down.
Are TV ratings up, but fewer want to actually go to a game?
Are there still kneeling black pampers? I quit watching when the Broncos (now Donkeys) took a knee.
The NFL sucks. There may be an uptick in viewership for the moment, but the same Soy Boys run the NFL as before. Moreover, the sports media is full of Soy Boys. It’s just a matter of time before lame rules, protesting, and/or a strike bring it back down to Earth.
The sport is becoming more like Arena/Canadian/Flag football every day. You can see the crisis that the league is in by the horribly inconsistent refereeing. Watch one game and see people get ejected for targeting, then when the league realizes that it’s ejecting too many people for just trying to honestly tackle someone, they stop calling in other “obvious” situations.
All the media morons are thumping their chests about the high scoring game between the Rams and Chiefs last week. If I wanna see easy scoring and non-existent defense, I’ll watch basketball.
Ah, but what are ad rates doing...?
If ratings dropped last year by 10%, and increased 4% this year, that’s still a net decline of 6%. Just in round numbers total viewership is down .
The devil is in the details...
No..the fans that walked away from the NFL have not begun to return to the fold. They have been replaced by people who are new to the world of football.
As one who is not returning, I am quite surprised that I no longer even check to see how “MY team” is doing. I no longer want to make a statement but just don’t give a damn, so the NFL just doesn’t exist in my world.
Do I miss it? Yes, I miss what it once was, but don’t care what it has become.
Not sure its as you say. When the national game is a dog, it has a NY team in it. The big night games that in the past would be Jacksonville v. San Fran instead were Grren Bay v. Patriots and the next week Chiefs v. Rams. The games that used to be in the pile at 1pm are now showcased.
I was a guest for Thanksgiving. Host offered to tune it to the football game. I changed it to a dog show. The dogs were a pleasure to see. Don’t miss the NFL at all.
This is like the steroid era in baseball. Every record smashed, fans excited about high scoring affairs(boycotters not, of course). Eventually, like the steriod era of baseball, it will crash. Likely the NFL will come to be viewed like arena football (or even better, the NBA when zone defenses were illegal and superstars of the 1990s were guaranteed a one-on-one match up with everyone else being used solely to draw away all the other defenders); This will be because the chess-like strategic interplay between offense and defense has been legislated out, as well as the smash mouth, hard hitting aspect that made it exciting to watch a goal line stand or a critical fourth down. Bombs away football will ultimately become kind of boring once the novelty wears off because it’s not really football.
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.
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.
OK, Maybe Soccer just needs 50% larger nets.
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.
I see two reasons TV ratings are up:
1) A few players are still kneeling, but they say or show nothing on TV. NFL probably got the TV execs in a room and they agreed to stop to their mutual benefit to ghost the kneelers.
2) Most stadiums are no more than half full on game day, if that. This likely tied to a precipitous drop in season ticket holders. Some portion if these people now watching at home since they don’t begin the game by pissing them off with kneeler exposure.