Step 1 - re-hire crony, media, tone-deaf insider Goodell at $40 million/year
Step 2 - FAIL!
Liars. The primary reason is anti-American players taking a knee.
Just how I want to spend my time, watching the Antifa vs BLM.
Gak~
End of season games are not as well attended if there is nothing at stake, like a playoff spot.
Would anybody pay to see a Browns 49’ers game?....................
Why the effort? The NFL claimed all is well.
Stretchy Pants Losers!
Form a Negro Football League and allow their own kind to support their fat salaries; purchase their gear; and, line up their advertising.
Poetry readings.
Preferably from Maya Angelou.
If not, then interpretive dance by the players.
They are lying to themselves if they think some big market teams having poor seasons is the reason. The Bears and Jets have been perennial middle or bottom of the pack teams and this year is no different. The Cowboys and Giants have had bad seasons before and the Rams are having a surprisingly good season. Also, this lack of attendance and ratings has been there from game 1, before any team had time to establish a record. Like the story of the King with no clothes, everybody is ignoring the obvious.
Fire the SOBs!
I am of the opinion (as a consumer of NFL Football) that their loss of viewership is primarily due to their craven behavior regarding the kneeling of players during the National Anthem.
They are going to deny it until the cows come home and attribute it to everything else under the sun but that.
And their cowardliness is on full display, in that they don’t show the National Anthem being played anymore. That is their fix. They think that if they can somehow keep television audiences from seeing it, then...it isn’t happening.
Almost as annoying to me is the push by the NFL to show how much the league “appreciates” the military and veterans. It is blatantly transparent pandering, and the only reason I try not to disparage it, is that our military and some veterans get both recognition and perks from it.
There are two things the NFL could to that would immediately help their ratings:
1.) Make it a requirement that players in uniform, wearing the NFL logo as mandated, must stand with hand over heart during the duration of the national anthem. And show it on television, while vigorously punishing those who don’t comply with severe fines and suspensions. No exceptions.
2.) Rescind their pledge of $80 million dollars to social justice causes.
I bet if they did those two things, viewership would jump right up.
Want some answers?
All politics OUT. No Bob Costas assaholic comments about
guns. No kneeling players. No BLM crap.
Then a return to the 70s. No long hair hanging out of helmets, etc.
No more coaches trying to be junior players..icing the kicker and other unsportsmanlike crap, etc.
No more pink October...I watched the NFL to escape life for 2 hours, not to be reminded of dreaded diseases.
No more retarded animated football robots playing guitar on TV etc.
The superbowl should be more like the late 60s, and not some nutty Hollywood extravaganza.
All other games have also way overdone the glitz and fluff crap...football has become an afterthought.
No women in locker rooms and on sports sideline commenting.
NFL is for Sunday and Monday nights...period.
No NFL game should be in England or Mexico city.
College ball is Saturday, Friday is high school.
I don’t want NFL every random day of the week.
Fire Goodell.
But this and other needed fixes will now happen, and they will continue down this road to their destruction.
Well, looks like the NF’nL finally figured it out and the stands will be full from now on...
(/snarkasm)
Funny, I read the entire article and found no such thing as a “plot” to cure sagging sales and vieiwership...
Plan “B”
Rip out about half of the existing seats and claim games are sold out and arenas are filled to capacity.
They should start a “listening tour” where they can reintroduce themselves to the fans.
The plot was to rehire Roger for $40M? Major fail!
Good luck with that, NFL
There have been so many excuses for poor attendance.
Among others:
Attendance down in SF because the sunny side of the stadium gets so hot.
The numbers are skewed because the LA Chargers in there first season in LA are playing in a 27,000 seat stadium.
Attendance down for LA Ram games because of new competition from the LA Chargers.
Attendance down due to natural disasters fires and floods and hurricanes.
Attendance down recently because people are Christmas shopping.
Attendance down due to cold weather in many parts of the country .
TV viewership down during baseball playoffs due to some exciting playoff series
TV viewership down due to the start of NBA basketball.
I’m sure there are others. Take your pick.
Also, the felons and thugs that are identified in crimes remain as players. Over the last several years this has had a corrosive effect.
BLM and kneeling supports criminal thugs, and the league is filled with them