Posted on 09/26/2017 9:24:52 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
NEW YORK (AP) — Through three weeks, viewership for national telecasts of NFL games is down 11 percent this season compared to 2016, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday.
Nielsen said the games averaged 17.63 million viewers for the first three weeks of last season, and have dipped to 15.65 million this year. The Nielsen figures don’t include many of the Sunday afternoon games that are shown to a regional audience, but not a national one.
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When I saw the messages the owners were sending out over the weekend, my first thought was, “They are going to be teaching classes on this dumpster fire in Marketing & Public Relations courses for the next 20 years.” Talk about a tone-deaf response from their PR people. Their 6-digit salaried PR people, I might add.
“It’s because of the election ...right? right?”
Hey Dingbat! There was an election in Alabama yesterday with national implications - OBVIOUSLY people were fixated on that election, and were unable to watch the NFL.
(LOL...just wait, that will be the excuse)
The owners will need to hang Goodell in effigy on the fifty yard line at halftime of every game—after they fire him—if they have any hope of digging out of the mess.
Hope the players are enjoying their fat contracts—won’t be long now before those glory days are over.
And who does Goodell report to? The owners. They let him create this mess.
The solution: hire another PR person!
You can’t make up this stuff!
I wouldn’t trust Goodell to take my garbage to the curb without insulting the neighbor.
I think there will be a real big drop in the next 3 weeks as non football fans stop tuning in to see the protest.
I did. Most of the others will too. The NFL has managed to take the fun out of it. It's not really even a boycott now. I just don't care anymore.
just do it one more weekend guys...that’ll really finish it off
The NFL's problem is once these fans leave, they are not coming back. NFL fan pipeline is not growing either - the youth game is declining. Europe does not want the crappy product either. They have soccer and rugby.
It's pathetic some people are making excuses to continue supporting NFL.
Players earn a pension after five years in the league, and that expensive perk is sure to be reduced, pushed out or eliminated.
11% ? We can do better.
The first thing I’d do is sit down with Roger Goodell and say, “Look, do you want to save the NFL or be politically correct? It’s that simple. You can’t do both. You have to make a choice.”
Yep - the tide has just begun to go out. They will be on their knees in church before long - asking God to get the fans they spit on to forgive them....
Players have 401Ks and annuities for pensions. Not sure those can be taken away once earned. ‘Three years’ is minimum NFL experience for pension.
Retired players do get a lot of medical benefits, but taxpayers would almost certainly pick up the tab if the NFL couldn’t afford it.
I just started contacting the advertisers today—figured there might be a let up from the “first wave” so time to keep up the pressure.
My message—I will stop using your product until you remove your sponsorship of the NFL. My demands of the NFL—fire Goodell and get the political protests out of football.
saw on face book that everybody is organizing for Veterans day weekend..its on a Saturday...that Sunday..massive boycotts of stadium attendance...televised games...sponsors..mass burnings of tickets etc...we gotta spread this around. Punish them once and for all.
hes got to go...hes a left wing nut just like his father was in the 60’s..big time anti war organizer..his next big league project before all this...was to have every team organize for “police and criminal justice reform”...thinks “his league” is a social warrior platform...hes got to go.
Football pensions are about 1/3 of what baseball pays for equivalent years of service.
1. Severance Pay Plan: A player with two credited NFL seasons (on the active roster, injured reserved or physically unable to perform list for three games in each of two seasons), receives $10,000 for every year played between 1993 and 1999 and $12,500 for every year from 2000 on.
2. Player Annuity Program: A player with four credited NFL seasons receives an annuity valued at $65,000 at age 35 or five years after his last credited season, whichever is later.
3. Second-Career Savings Plan or 401(K): A player with two credited seasons will receive a $2 match for every $1 contributed to the plan up to a maximum club contribution of $20,000 per year.
4. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle Retirement Plan (pension): A player with at least three credited seasons earns a benefit credit for every season he plays. The benefit credits add up to monthly pension checks that player receive starting at age 55.
It’s 100 percent at my house.
There’s also what seems like good medical coverage for retired players:
https://www.nflpa.com/former-players/former-players-benefits
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