Weak 1: Monday Night Football Ratings Crash by over 20% Amid Social Justice Protests

Breitbart ^ | 15 Sep 2020 | DYLAN GWINN

[conservative98]

Against the backdrop of large-scale social justice demonstrations that included Black Lives Matter t-shirts, a giant social justice banner, an entire team standing for the “black national anthem,” and at least 20 players kneeling in protest during the actual national anthem, the Steelers-Giants MNF contest saw a 27% drop from last year.

The second game of the Monday Night Football double-header, saw another notable drop of 2.5 million viewers from last year’s mark.

These numbers are bad, needless to say. However, the full context of how bad they are can’t be appreciated until you factor in two notable variables that have been included in this year’s rating formula which should be helping the NFL, but aren’t.

First, as Outkick reports, roughly 1.2 million fans aren’t attending the games live. Which, in theory, should add to the television numbers since it would be assumed that those fans would be watching at home. Second, speaking of the home, out-of-home viewers are now accounted for in the ratings process for the first time.

[Dacula]

I am a Nielsen rating person, NO NFL at my house.

I do like cashing their checks each month. Free money!!

[bray]

Any helmets with the cops’ names on them?

[cherry]

its hot and dry and smokey outside....I really am in no mood to watch millionaires tell me how awful I am...

I MATTER TO ME!

[TBall]

I stopped watching three years ago, but this year I have hard core NFL friends that have stopped watching as well. They have given up the fantasy bets and all.

[Rummyfan]

Yes!

Truth be told, MNF has been declining for oh, twenty years at least. Add this year’s social activism by the league and maybe it’s the final nail.

[Chuck N]

Worse than 20%.

100% of me. Never again.

It’s not a game if it’s political.

Done with baseball too.

These athletes are overpaid “pea brains”

[Gay State Conservative]

Racist! Refusing to sympathize with those who make millions throwing a ball...have you no decency???

[Sgt_Schultze]

The players have no idea what they are doing to their industry. Here is a link where Anquan Boldin, a leader of the activists, explains why there is booing and resistance from fans. He thinks, ”If everybody was on the same page, and wanted everybody to be treated equal, then we would all be in this fight together. But we’re not. We’re not close to all being in this fight together.

None of them understands it’s that their thoughts are simply not why we were tuning in. They earn lots of money because many people like to watch their skills. Utterly NOBODY is there to hear their thoughts.

[milagro]

Well, as your article reveals, the ratings for the first week of NFL games was truly:
“WEAK 1” :)!

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I'm looking forward to the day when I go to retrieve my car at the car wash and look at and say, "Hey, , you missed a spot here . . ."

[arthurus]

And they are hoping that the Communist Crocodile eats them last.

[conservative98]

Or now, (insert whoever’s name here), don’t con me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ciMZ4VYWKg

[Lurkinanloomin]

Needs to crash harder.

[ConservativeStatement]

There is as much chance of me watching an NFL game this year as there is of St. Louis or San Antonio winning the Super Bowl in 2021.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Sadly true, you’d think football was as hard to quit as heroin.
I gave it up cold turkey on the first knee.
Haven’t really missed it.

[cherry]

I have to ask that guy...."what fight"...I mean you have murderous animals among your group, and you wonder why my group doesn't see eye to eye with you?....

WE matter out here in the hinterlands....

[Lurkinanloomin]

One guy did have David Dorn’s name on his helmet.

[Rembrandt]

I don’t want anything crammed down my throat, especially leftist propaganda!

[hsmomx3]

Considering it was on ESPN, the ratings should be worse than this.

[eeriegeno]

Who are the advertisers? Need to know what products not to buy.