Posted on 10/06/2017 12:41:13 PM PDT by EliRoom8
The NFL is not just losing white viewers. The NFL isn’t just losing black viewers. No, the NFL is hemorrhaging viewers of all races and ages, and they’re doing so at a frightening pace. With the NFL’s Week 4 in the rear-view mirror, a review of TV ratings through the league’s first month show that the NFL has lost millions of viewers year-over-year, a decline that has picked up speed so far this year. As Awful Announcing recently put it, “It seems everyone is mad at the NFL.”
Overall, viewership is down seven percent over 2016, which is bad enough for the league. However, this year’s slippage is not the first. Indeed, 2016 — the year of the first national anthem protests — saw a nine percent decline over 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
NFL.com- Jan 2017 peaked at 28,781,000 in website traffic.
10 months later, website traffic is at 8,751,500.
https://www.trafficestimate.com/nfl.com
Yeah...Tony and his buddy Vinnie...from the Brooklyn Persuader’s club...
I personally think that’s the reason why they aren’t selling seats in Los Angeles. There are no American citizen Angelenos left.
Hugh too.
Now there’s a REAL game! Thanks!
This is the key takeaway sentence of the article. It seems to support that the NFL is losing the critical youth. They are both not engaging with football fandom or are dropping out.
The 6% drop in middle-age viewers is key as they are the key to what's really happening with NFL viewership.
The 4% drop in the over 55 segment is likely the NFL's hardcore, long-time fans who are giving up watching the NFL for a reason, although leaving the NFL is likely the most difficult for this demographic group.
This is just insanity. They are doing everything they can to insult and antagonize their core audience and most of the people they are trying to kiss up to are not even football fans and viewers in the first place.
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!
Yes. The division series playoffs started yesterday. There should be some excellent games coming up.
As these millions of fans walk away from a sport they've watched since childhood, they no longer participate in the ancillary activities of buying team gear, or talking about the game with family and friends.
The sport loses it's visibility at homes and in workplaces, and new fans are harder to find.
It's a spiral that could go on for years, maybe never coming out of it.
For decades, baseball was the most popular sport. Football passed it a few years ago, but that dominance is not permanent. Watch as baseball makes a resurgence, and hockey grows to it's best years ever.
I discovered it doesn't matter what's on when I take my Sunday afternoon nap.
It's about protesting police brutality, specifically the Las Vegas police who disrespected a player who was fleeing from a casino shooting (NFL players seem to have the worst luck being at the wrong place at the wrong time/sarc).
The same Las Vegas police who, both on duty and off duty, responded to heroically to a mass shooting and saved many lives.
Several officers were killed or wounded.
for a bunch of guys who shout BlackLivesMatter, the players seem totally unconcerned about a black police officer who died heroically in the tragedy. with not a peep out of them.
I lived in the Torrance/Manhattan Beach vicinity for 40 years before moving to North Carolina in 2015. Los Angeles didn’t have an NFL team for about a couple of decades and nobody cared. Nobody except the politicians and fat-cat NFL owners who were always looking for some sweetheart deal from the politicians. The more SoCal became de facto Northern Mexico, the less people cared about American football.
Like read.
Or sleep.
Or mow the lawn.
Or read the phone book.
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