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NFL Season Kickoff Ratings Drop From 2019 Opener As Kansas City Thrash Houston At COVID-19 Socially Distanced Stadium
Deadline ^ | September 11, 2020 | Dominic Patten

Posted on 09/11/2020 9:00:16 AM PDT by EdnaMode

With the coronavirus pandemic still raging across America, this year’s NFL season opener was as different as night and day in many ways from the 100th season kickoff in 2019.

For one thing, as reigning Super Bowl champs the Kansas City Chiefs pummeled the Houston Texans 34-20, the ratings were down – a lot.

In early numbers, the primetime NBC game scored a 5.2 among adults 18-49 and 16.4 million viewers between 8 – 11 PM ET.

Now, those numbers for the 8:25 – 11:30 PM ET game itself will certainly be adjusted upward later, but right now that’s a 16.1% drop over the spectacle of the September 5, 2019 season opener among the advertiser rich demographic. In an America and a NFL still adjusting to the new normal of live sports in the era of COVID-19, last night’s Kansas City victory also fell 16.1% in total sets of eyeballs from last year’s fast affiliate results – but remember, those numbers will change in one form or another later today.

Having said that, right now, the TV viewership results for the game in front of 17,000 socially distanced fans at KC’s more than 76,000 capacity Arrowhead Stadium is looking like a 10-year low for the NFL and NBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blm; chiefs; football; houstontexans; kansascitychiefs; nationalfelonleague; nationalfelonsleague; nbc; nfl; nflratings; nofansleft; politics; sports; texans
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To: Jeff Chandler

>>They will adjust (fake) the numbers upward to support their narrative.<<

I think the last time that happened (I think it was 4th Q of a bad SB?) the advertisers sued and won.

They mess with numbers at their peril.


41 posted on 09/11/2020 9:38:02 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Durbin

42 posted on 09/11/2020 9:38:05 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: rigelkentaurus

I hope that it was just more curiosity to see what it was like, and that very quickly the ratings will drop even more.


43 posted on 09/11/2020 9:41:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Steve_Seattle; wardaddy; Pelham; DiogenesLamp; Dick Bachert; GSWarrior; John S Mosby
Your points are apt. They actually demonstrate the absurd betrayal of the players' actual interests by the NFL bureaucracy! Think about it.

Protesting or speaking out is one thing. What is not appropriate is for players making many millions of dollars, being displayed suggesting their race is not being fairly treated in contemporary America!

The players are being manipulated--made to look ridiculous-- by a media & their sycophants, as pawns in an attempted revolution. It calls to mind the French Revolution & the march on the Bastille led by the King's cousin from his enormous Left Bank palace, while dressed in peasant garb!

If Roger Goodell had a functional brain, he would not allow this farce, which can only make the participants look ridiculous.

Virtue signalling? No inappropriate betrayal of reason!! Obvious betrayal of trust.

44 posted on 09/11/2020 9:42:21 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: throwthebumsout

“... find out there is no money due to the reduced NFL revenue.”

It is likely that they’re getting paid. And by people who agree with or who push their sedition.


45 posted on 09/11/2020 9:43:28 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Yeah a 16% drop is discouraging given the circumstances. Should be at least 30, 40%”

I’d like to see the demographics of that drop. So would advertizers.


46 posted on 09/11/2020 9:43:34 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: djpg

I watched the 2019 World Archery Championship last night.


47 posted on 09/11/2020 9:47:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EdnaMode

only 16% down ... a lot of fat old white men are having a hard time giving up their crushes on their heroes. There’s just something about wearing another man’s name on your back ... especially when there’s a very good chance that he’s a felon. Lovely.

Even worse than the hero worship is the fake sense of community. Many of the stadiums aren’t even located in the cities identified in the team names. Those cities are 3rd World style hell-holes now that people don’t want to go to after dark. Sportsball cannot die fast enough, and the NFL is the worst of it. The sense of community is just a marketing campaign based on leftover emotions from a bygone era. Lovely.


48 posted on 09/11/2020 9:48:22 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: Ohioan
I left out a comma, essential to my point.

Virtue signalling? No, an inappropriate betrayal of reason!! Obvious betrayal of trust.

49 posted on 09/11/2020 9:48:44 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: jpsb

That disgusting display ruined the Dallas Cowboys for us. Don’t care if they go bankrupt, in fact that would be welcome.


50 posted on 09/11/2020 9:49:36 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: EdnaMode
Every time I see a story about this game, the attendance goes up. 15,000, then 16,000, and this story says 17,000. Are the democrats harvesting attendance records after the fact?

And why is an official attendance not available? I have never seen an official attendance of exactly XX,000. It's always been xx, 332, or xx, 567 - never an even 1,000.

51 posted on 09/11/2020 9:49:51 AM PDT by Bernard (Going commando - no tagline today)
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To: Altura Ct.

It will never be 0. At least half the NFL audience are gamblers and they don’t care anything about the protests or politics unless it affects the points spread. A 16% drop is roughly what I expected given that the remaining half of the audience might reflect the population at large. The left will continue to watch along with the mushy middle and our side is dropping out which should be about a quarter of the previous audience. I’d say they already lost some in the last few years and this 16% loss is still what is left from our side.


52 posted on 09/11/2020 9:52:49 AM PDT by xp38
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To: djpg

It cannot go to zero...people are stuck at home...and it still went down ...

a lot of people just tuned in to see what was going to happen..


53 posted on 09/11/2020 9:54:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: EdnaMode
People watch sports to escape politics.

That is right!!

54 posted on 09/11/2020 9:55:02 AM PDT by timestax
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To: EdnaMode
People watch sports to escape politics.

That is right!!

55 posted on 09/11/2020 9:55:05 AM PDT by timestax
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To: EdnaMode

The Super Bowl will still be the highest rated program by a considerable distance.

The Top 30 programs will still contain a bunch of NFL playoff and prime time games.


56 posted on 09/11/2020 9:55:59 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: EdnaMode

Covid has stopped “raging”. Geesh so sick of this BS.


57 posted on 09/11/2020 9:56:19 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Truthoverpower

Oakland A’s had BLM stenciled on the back of the mound.

Morons. Seriously, MLB (BLM spelled backward?) and the rest of these idiots must be getting ENORMOUS pressure to tow the line here.

Normally, you’d quip something like, “I wonder if someone on the left doesn’t have sex tapes on the owners?”

Given the Epstein/Maxwell thing, and the Bob Kraft thing, I’m pretty confident they do, and its the reason why you see these idiots knuckling under.

They aren’t idiots. They know this is literally crapping where they eat.


58 posted on 09/11/2020 9:57:58 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: deport
Arrogant thugs.$$$$$$$

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59 posted on 09/11/2020 9:59:08 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Truthoverpower

Baseball has BLM engraved on their pitching mounds...


60 posted on 09/11/2020 10:02:10 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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