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Empty Seats Plague NFL Stadiums in Week One of Season
Gateway Pundit ^ | September 9, 2018 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 09/09/2018 11:22:56 PM PDT by Zakeet

Week one of the regular NFL season kicked off this weekend with a wimper - the ratings were at a 10-year low. ... Americans are fed up with athletes kneeling during the National Anthem and it showed - plenty of empty seats plagued stadiums on Sunday.

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On Sunday, Miami Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson kicked off their first game one of the NFL season by taking a knee during the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick celebrated.

The constant protests on the field are destroying the NFL.

The President slammed the NFL on Sunday for their abysmal ratings.

Wow, NFL first game ratings are way down over an already really bad last year comparison. Viewership declined 13%, the lowest in over a decade. If the players stood proudly for our Flag and Anthem, and it is all shown on broadcast, maybe ratings could come back? Otherwise worse!

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attendance; dienfldie; football; nfl; protests
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To: mylife

Ha. I am so glad you are finished with the “ No Flag League”. I just don’t care any more.. it is mindless thugs on steroids. When the truth is revealed about steroids , it will blow your mind.


61 posted on 09/10/2018 6:16:01 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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To: oincobx

When I was a kid, nobody paid to attend a high school football game. Home town pride & seeing the kids play & the kids in the band keep up the spirits was enough for many parents who were working more than 8 hour days to be there in the bleachers.


62 posted on 09/10/2018 6:33:14 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Dave W
The NFL games I watched, the stadiums were packed and everyone I know was excited it was week 1. It was a great Sunday of games!

Did you take a knee in front of your TV screen when they played the National Anthem?

63 posted on 09/10/2018 6:36:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: airborne
I agree about Fantasy Football helping to keep the NFL alive. There are several pools in my office alone and each of them costs hundreds of dollars to join. I don't have interest in it myself but this is a huge underground economy as I know that nobody is paying taxes on their winnings!

Also popular in my office is the Super Bowl pool in which you buy squares and then numbers are randomly assigned on the x and y axis. One of those pools was $100 a square ($10,000 in prizes).

As for attending the games, the majority of seats are either owned by corporations or by season ticket holders. So those seats will typically not go empty as they have already been paid for. My company owns some of this seating at various arenas and when we don't have clients to go, we are giving them to employees as incentives. Same with season ticket holders, either they will go to the games themselves or they will see that somebody goes in their place.

So the real indicator of declining interest in NFL football will be the TV attendance. Anybody into Fantasy Football likely has software that will tabulate the results of their teams so there is no need for them to actually watch the games.

64 posted on 09/10/2018 6:50:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: Zakeet

This whole thing about the NFL losing viewership and popularity is mostly just wishful thinking on our part.

Yeah, the numbers dropped a little last year, but not as much as we would like. Most fan just don’t care, or just shrug off the kneeling and disrespect.

The stadiums were mostly full yesterday, and are likely to remain so throughout the season.

The NFL is dead to me. I’ll never watch another game. But, I’m in the minority.

Nothing would make me happier than to see empty stadiums during the Veteran’s Day boycott, but I expect to see the stadiums full that day.

Bread and circuses.


65 posted on 09/10/2018 7:02:54 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Skooz

“This whole thing about the NFL losing viewership and popularity is mostly just wishful thinking on our part.”

I agree. I’ll never wear Nike again, but retired military are not their market. Their market lies in big cities, where hating America is popular.

Same with NFL football. Their market - for attendance at least - is the liberal cities, and the wealthy people who hate themselves as much as they hate America.

In most things now, it is the big cities against the rest of America. And the big cities hate everything that made America great!


66 posted on 09/10/2018 7:15:08 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: SaveFerris
The NFL reports though ESPN that attendance at the LA Chargers game was 93.9%.

Does that look like 93.9% to you?

67 posted on 09/10/2018 7:19:11 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Haiku Guy

Note almost everybody is in Red.


68 posted on 09/10/2018 7:20:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zakeet
The NFL reports though ESPN that attendance at the Baltimore game was 99.4%

This is what 99.4% looks like, according to the NFL.

69 posted on 09/10/2018 7:23:07 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Haiku Guy

You’re right! Without the Kansas City fans, how many are left?


70 posted on 09/10/2018 7:25:05 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: LRoggy

I’m for ice hockey(no kneeling) and lacrosse is a cross-over sport.


71 posted on 09/10/2018 7:33:27 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Haiku Guy

The Chargers play in a 27,000 seat soccer stadium.


72 posted on 09/10/2018 7:43:48 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Exactly! And the team owners too


73 posted on 09/10/2018 9:07:50 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Mr.Unique
The Chargers play in a 27,000 seat soccer stadium.

I guess the business plan is to have Los Angeles spend Billions of Dollars of taxpayer money to build them an appropriately sized football palace. Bad timing on their part, since the NFL have made themselves political poison.

74 posted on 09/10/2018 11:38:34 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Haiku Guy

I would roughly guess about 85% on that part of the lower deck but would like to see the upper decks.


75 posted on 09/10/2018 1:45:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: COBOL2Java

I loved your response - very funny. This is how I remember FR used to be, but anyway, honestly, I don’t even remember the national anthem being played. I must have been away from the TV at the time.


76 posted on 09/11/2018 9:00:31 AM PDT by Dave W
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