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BOOM! NFL Ticket Sales Down 18% in Week Since Mass Anti-Military Anthem Protests
GP ^ | 09/28/17 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 09/28/2017 7:03:49 PM PDT by Enlightened1

This had to hurt. NFL ticket sales down 18% down this week.

Last Sunday over 200 NFL players knelt during the US national anthem on Gold Star Mothers Day.

 

StubHub announced a 10% discount in NFL tickets this week.

And now this…
NFL ticket sales are down 18% compared to last year at this time.
The Washington Examiner reported:

The National Football League is feeling the impact of the “Trump Effect.”

Ticket sales since he called on team owners to fire players who take a knee to protest the National Anthem have cratered.

The online ticket reseller TickPick told Secrets that sales have dropped 17.9 percent, far more than the usual Week Three fall.

From TickPick:

“We have seen a massive decrease in NFL ticket purchases this past week in comparison to years past. Week 3 seems to usually have less ticket orders than week 2, but this year ticket purchases are down more than 7 percent from this time last year,” said TickPick’s Jack Slingland.

Several Chargers players torched their shirts and jackets this week.

NEVER underestimate an American's Love for our Flag.

We stand UNITED in protest against the #NFL

.@realDonaldTrumppic.twitter.com/hNLNo0pGBs

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


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To: Jane Long

1) its been reported as fake

2) that’s Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks HC in the background with the entire team...i hate the Seahawks, I hate seattle, i despise michael benett and for those reasons wouldn’t mind if this is true but if it were it would be the end of the franchise...


21 posted on 09/28/2017 7:16:42 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Enlightened1

Swerved through the Packers game and you can see where the management forced the fans down in the bowl and turned off the lights up high to give the appearance of a packed stadium


22 posted on 09/28/2017 7:17:49 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: stockpirate

Goodell and his dad are both radical leftists


Do you suppose Goodell’s wife, former FoxNews anchor Jane Skinner, is also a YUGE leftist?


23 posted on 09/28/2017 7:18:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Enlightened1
Everything that should be up is down.
- Al Gore, 1992
24 posted on 09/28/2017 7:19:02 PM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Alberta's Child

you’d have to break it down team by team to see the effect...if ticket resales for the NY Giants, Cowboys, Denver, Packer are down 17% that’s a huge indicator...teams like the Jets, Dolphins can’t move tickets..

empty seats do hurt the owners as i believe on average fans pay $75 per person on stadium concessions...


25 posted on 09/28/2017 7:19:58 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: combat_boots

Holy cow. The comments seem to indicate it is The SeaChickens but I’d have no idea who the man is. If that is for real and not photo-shopped, that is SO against The Fire Code.

Send all the America haters packing...free one way tickets to where ever they want to go.


26 posted on 09/28/2017 7:20:51 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !")
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To: Enlightened1

Are you ready for some desperation?


27 posted on 09/28/2017 7:22:34 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: TheConservativeParty

see comment #7- its michael bennett of the seattle seahawks but the photo is fake...


28 posted on 09/28/2017 7:24:15 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Enlightened1

He didn’t tell owners they should fire the SOBs, he said ““Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” the president said at a rally for Republican senator Luther Strange,


29 posted on 09/28/2017 7:24:21 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Ouderkirk

Maybe you ‘swerved’ through the telecast at the time the stadium was being evacuated for the rain delay. Otherwise, I don’t see what you’re talking about.


30 posted on 09/28/2017 7:24:50 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: combat_boots

Looks fake.


31 posted on 09/28/2017 7:25:20 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: God luvs America

Looked fake.

What a bunch of idiots.

Make millions per year, and are going to in effect, fire themselves.


32 posted on 09/28/2017 7:27:40 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !")
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To: Enlightened1

And to vendors, concession workers, ticket takers and parking attendants who are going to be out of a job. Goodell only needed to enforce the rules.


33 posted on 09/28/2017 7:27:51 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: God luvs America

Yes some Season Ticket Holders purchased their tickets before all this controversy.

Instead of selling or giving away their tickets... They are burning them so that no one will be in their seats all season long.

Even if the vast majority of tickets are purchased by season ticket holders. If the available tickets are down 18% in one week, then that is significant.


34 posted on 09/28/2017 7:28:30 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Husker24

It is but Bennett is still a Jackass.


35 posted on 09/28/2017 7:28:46 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Enlightened1

They look like slaves grovelling before massa.


36 posted on 09/28/2017 7:28:50 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: combat_boots

Fake photo. No smoke


37 posted on 09/28/2017 7:28:56 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jane Long

When I look carefully at the guy’s right hand, it looks like the fingers aren’t even positioned in a way that they can be gripping something like a rod or pole. I think someone photoshopped it by showing the pole being held by an open hand. LOL.


38 posted on 09/28/2017 7:30:38 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: God luvs America
I love hearing that the Jets are having trouble selling tickets, but that started before this whole national anthem mess.

The Jets have been so bad for the last couple of years that they already had a problem with fans dropping their season tickets and refusing to make any more payments on their personal seat licenses (PSLs). Basically, they were daring the team to sue them to get the rest of the money they owed for the PSLs.

39 posted on 09/28/2017 7:33:20 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: combat_boots

That’s fake. I saw the original.


40 posted on 09/28/2017 7:33:37 PM PDT by mom4melody (,)
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