Posted on 10/08/2016 11:15:06 AM PDT by PROCON
The NFL is blaming its horrible TV ratings on the election, according to a leaked memo to team owners obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Every single one of the NFL's primetime offerings (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday Night Football) is down double-digits, according to Sports Illustrated. Overall, NFL viewership is down 11% this year.
The NFL wrote that the drop in primetime was likely because of "unprecedented interest in the Presidential election." The letter went on to reference the 2000 election as another period of time when NFL ratings went down.
The NFL is not the only one to make the connection. In an interview with Sports Business Daily, Mike Mulvihill, a senior VP at Fox Sports, said the current season reminded him of fall of 2000, a year which included the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush. 2000 was the only year during the decade 2000-2010 where the NFL saw a downtick overall, Sports Illustrated notes.
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Honestly, I wish I liked football so that I could boycott the NFL.
I was never an NFL fan (I’d watch the Super Bowl when the Giants were in it, but really don’t care otherwise), but when a game is on anywhere around me now I’m shocked by the number of commercials.
Any time I try to watch the local 11:00 news it is always being preempted by the last 1/2 hour of the NFL game that was supposed to be over by 11:00 (according to the guide); that says a lot - mainly that they are 3 1/2 hour games now.
A bunch of libs on a non-political forum (though we discuss politics) that I’m on are blaming the ratings decline on bad commentators, bad officiating, and bad rule changes. Anything but Kaepernick and the like.
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