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Weak 12: Three Quarters Of The Season Done And Most NFL Stadiums Are Half Empty
Breitbart ^ | 11-26-2018

Posted on 11/26/2018 11:00:11 AM PST by blam

With only five more weeks of regular season play, the NFL is still the object of scorn on social media as fans wonder why stadiums from coast to coast have loads of empty seats.

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KEYWORDS: antiamericans; chat; dienfldie; football; kneeling; loyalty; nfl; sports
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To: bigdaddy45

The media’s idea of improving NASCAR ratings will be to add some bull-dykes, twinks and trannies as drivers.


61 posted on 11/26/2018 12:39:53 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: dfwgator

Two points:

The latest rumor on Boston Sports Radio is that Bellichick is leaving at the end of this season to go to Cleveland. That he really was trying to draft Baker Mayfield at the beginning of this season and did not want to keep Jimmy G.

The Patriots Monday night football game against the Bills had a higher Boston area TV audience than all but ONE of the World Series Red Sox games. So, I am not sure I agree with your hierarchy designation. I would rank in audience support Pats, Sox, Celtics, Bruins, Revolution(soccer , Ha Ha).


62 posted on 11/26/2018 12:42:38 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: bigdaddy45
Are you honestly suggesting that NASCAR ratings are down because there are a few black guys changing tires? I don’t throw this term around, but if thats the reason you aren’t watching NASCAR, then you ARE a racist.

You certainly jumped to the ugliest possible conclusion with apparent glee there, bigdaddy45. Now why would you want to do that to a fellow FReeper? It's well-known in NASCAR circles that Brian France and NASCAR seriously jumped the shark on the PC, to the point of actually telling their legendarily loyal fanbase that they didn't want or need a bunch of redneck fans. That's a great way to kill the franchise and that's precisely what they did. Lavish minority outreach was just a symptom, it wasn't the disease. But, constantly singing the praises of Danica Patrick was certainly the source of much mockery and merriment. She just wasn't that great of a driver despite vagina.

63 posted on 11/26/2018 12:46:17 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: bigdaddy45

Oh, for the days of Earnhardt, Sr.

(sigh...)


64 posted on 11/26/2018 12:47:59 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: blam

I haven’t watched a single NFL game since 2016.
And no other sporting events either.
I do like and watch Nascar races though.


65 posted on 11/26/2018 12:49:24 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: BuffaloJack

Those multicolor painted bleachers almost look like people in those empty speedway stands, don’t they?


66 posted on 11/26/2018 12:51:50 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: blam

The NFL has ordered the networks covering games with open seats not to pan the crowd, or lack thereof.

OT...parking a car to see the chargers cost’s $100 smackers. At least they are playing well.


67 posted on 11/26/2018 12:53:51 PM PST by Kahuna
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To: woodbutcher1963

Were there any kneelers at the Patriots/Jets game yesterday?


68 posted on 11/26/2018 12:59:29 PM PST by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: blam

I hope they are destroyed. Completely.


69 posted on 11/26/2018 1:00:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blam

An NCAAF star getting a contract from the NFL might be a lot like a newly-graduated automotive engineer getting a job offer from General Motors’ Chevy Volt Division


70 posted on 11/26/2018 1:00:56 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

I quite watching and going to the 5 races we did every year after Earnhardt passed away.
That and getting mugged more and more each year for tickets, hotels, gas and food etc.etc.
Just wasnt worth it anymore.


71 posted on 11/26/2018 1:06:59 PM PST by TexasM1A
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To: Exit148

Not that I heard about.
That fad has thankfully passed.


72 posted on 11/26/2018 1:07:05 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: bigdaddy45

And it’s over -exposed. Driving around in a circle for 3 hours is not interesting enough to support 30 iterations. All while using the same car and the same motor...if I had to come up with a definition of boring from scratch...that would get me 90% there.


73 posted on 11/26/2018 1:15:18 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: blam

People have finally figured this out.


74 posted on 11/26/2018 1:26:18 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: shotgun

The “Beauty Contest” aspect is good for college football, because it gets people talking about it. It’s what sets it apart from the other sports. You want to limit the number of games, because of the possibility of injuries, and you’d want a weaker conference champion, like from the Pac-12 to have to work a lot harder to get the title, than the SEC Champion.

Now what I would like to see, is tougher schedules for all the teams in order to get a better gauge of who the best teams are. I proposed having two randomly-chosen outside-conference opponents of relatively equal strength, to replace the usual cream puff games teams play.


75 posted on 11/26/2018 1:29:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blam

Ticket prices are high. Traffic is bad. Food and drink at the stadium is of poor quality and expensive.

Put on top of that the ability to see just about any game on TV with either NFL Sunday Ticket or visiting a bar with NFL Sunday Ticket, and who the heck wants to go to a game?


76 posted on 11/26/2018 1:35:24 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: GnuThere

NASCAR went into the toilet when they started changing the rules.

The first was: you cannot pit on the first lap of a caution if you are not on the lead lap.

From that point forward, if you went a lap down, you were done and might as well save your equipment, go back to the garage and get a head start on the next event.

I tuned out shortly after and haven’t been back to a NASCAR event in 25 years and have not watched on TV in at least that long.

NFL...former Buffalo Bills fan. Couldn’t get it done, and it’s been 20 years since they made the playoffs.


77 posted on 11/26/2018 1:53:36 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: babble-on
So if you are a second tier team in one of those conferences, say a Florida currently in the SEC,

That won't be the case for much longer.

78 posted on 11/26/2018 1:56:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blam

In addition to the fans’ alienation from the players (kneeling, arrests, anti-white racism, etc...), there are a host of factors hurting the NFL:
1. Alternatives including staying home and watching on a 70” screen in high def.
2. Crazy times for games - how many Giants fans want to be in the middle of nowhere at a game ending at midnight on a work night.
3. Bad locations for stadiums. For example - the Meadowlands.
4. Ticket prices and overall cost of going to a game.
5. Youth’s inability to sit still for 4 hours (would rather have the “Red Zone” channel jumping from game to game while they sit on couch staring at their phones).
6. Wussification of America - they probably identify more with soccer players.
7. NFL rules being unnecessarily more complicated than NCAA and consequently games that rush through the exciting part (last few minutes) while taking forever on the earlier, less exciting part.
8. Free agency.
9. Baseball mentality of statistics and “fantasy football”
10. Unnatural sizes of linemen that do not occur naturally absent the use of steroids, resulting in unnecessary injuries.


79 posted on 11/26/2018 1:59:10 PM PST by Stingray51
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To: Stingray51

I forgot another factor: the classless behavior of so many fans rendering the games unfriendly to families. I have been to games of the Giants, Jets, Bills, Eagles and probably some others and it is impossible to spend a day with the family without being exposed to a lot of complete and utter lowlifes.


80 posted on 11/26/2018 2:01:06 PM PST by Stingray51
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