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According to this CNN Money article, NFL ratings for the first two weeks of the season are down at least 12% overall. The writer attributes this decline to Peyton Manning's retirement, Tom Brady's four game suspension and viewer interest in the presidential campaign.

No mention at all of Colin Kaepernick's protest, or others who have joined in as being a cause of the viewership decline. I guess time will tell.

1 posted on 09/25/2016 7:40:53 AM PDT by Will88
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When you attack the white Americans who are paying your bills, white Americans stop paying your bills. Is this a trick question? :)


2 posted on 09/25/2016 7:42:13 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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>>No mention at all of Colin Kaepernick’s protest, or others who have joined in as being a cause of the viewership decline. I guess time will tell.<<

If I see any more of that nonsense today the NFL is off my TV for good.


3 posted on 09/25/2016 7:42:16 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Never Trump=Always hiLIARy)
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These idiots will never see the truth. Americans will forgive and tolerate a lot. Spit on our flag and we shun you.


4 posted on 09/25/2016 7:43:27 AM PDT by Mjreagan
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Football fans no longer want to buy a product where the distraction has become the product and the game is secondary.


5 posted on 09/25/2016 7:43:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump will win New York.)
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100 percent kaepernick
Hell with the whole league and their spoiled employees
Let em go work in the salt mines like the rest of us


6 posted on 09/25/2016 7:43:35 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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Here's another link that gives NFL ratings for the first two weeks in more detail. Looks like declines in all but a couple of game nights.

2016 NFL TV RATINGS

7 posted on 09/25/2016 7:44:05 AM PDT by Will88
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So all they have to do is talk Brett Favre into playing again - easy!


8 posted on 09/25/2016 7:44:18 AM PDT by Stosh
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The drive by media will never admit that maybe Americans just don’t want to watch America-haters hating on America.


9 posted on 09/25/2016 7:47:11 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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why watch something which so strongly insults your values?


10 posted on 09/25/2016 7:47:33 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Proudly deplorable since 2016)
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Yes, it would make perfect sense....we only watched the games to observe Manning and Brady, and Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings are when we traditionally observe political news.

About as dimwitted as they come, when they suggest this. The general public are sending a message to the NFL and the players. If the trend continues through the end of the season, you can all expect all contracts for the next season to be 5 to 10 percent less. If the players can afford pay-cuts....fine.

But here’s the other odd thing. If you detect a trend as an advertiser on ESPN or CBS....why pay the normal hefty amount for your ad’s? I’d ask for a discount. And somewhere down the line....when ‘Big Bob the ESPN talker’ comes in to talk his new contract for next year....he’ll get a pay-cut as well.


11 posted on 09/25/2016 7:47:55 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Their sympathy to BLM was the last straw for me.


13 posted on 09/25/2016 7:48:25 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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I think there's a lot of truth to this article. Backlash against Kaepernick is likely a factor, but not to the tune of 12%.

The NFL's insistence on monkeying around with some of the rules in the last couple of years has been a sure sign that they're concerned about their stale product.

14 posted on 09/25/2016 7:48:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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I wonder what they will say if the NFL keeps deflating?


17 posted on 09/25/2016 7:50:22 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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I believe that America loving Americans are tuning out. I had hopes this PC BS wouldn’t infect college football, but it has. So disappointed in Harbaugh.....he could have reined in his players, but chose the other route. Football is on shaky ground, in all venues. Even high school is affected. I LOVED football....so sad for it’s decline due to PC.


18 posted on 09/25/2016 7:50:47 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Turn them off! Don’t tell me you can’t find anything better to do with your time then to keep supporting those that insult and anger you.

Hit them where it hurts... It will also do wonders for your mental well being.


21 posted on 09/25/2016 7:54:21 AM PDT by aquila48
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The NFL has overestimated the fun viewers have when players give them - and their values - the finger.


23 posted on 09/25/2016 7:55:43 AM PDT by GOPJ ("..unbridled ambition, greedy..with a husband still dicking bimbos at home"- Colin Powell on Clinton)
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I quite watching some time ago. Got fed up with the whole spectacle, endless advertisements, and all the PC crapola. It became three hours of irritation instead of enjoyment.


24 posted on 09/25/2016 7:59:04 AM PDT by Starboard
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I no longer have any interest in watching a bunch of liberal America hating, overpaid, millionaire thugs play a game. I no longer find the nfl entertaining at all.


25 posted on 09/25/2016 7:59:52 AM PDT by GregoTX
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IMHO, this has little to do with Brady, Manning, or Kaepernick; rather, too many extended commercial breaks and rule changes have turned what used to be a fast-paced, exciting game into a snooze fest.


29 posted on 09/25/2016 8:02:07 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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NFL insults its customers. The customers go elsewhere. GTH NFL!


32 posted on 09/25/2016 8:06:29 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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