Posted on 09/29/2016 11:01:59 AM PDT by captaincaveman
Fewer people are watching the NFL on TV, and no one really knows why.
The NFL Players Association admits that the trend is an obvious concern. The league has kept quiet, likely fearful that talking about the situation would lend credence to the dynamic, possibly causing other fans who are still watching the games to say, “Maybe I should stop, too.”
The decline has become a mystery, for the media and surely for the NFL.
(Excerpt) Read more at profootballtalk.nbcsports.com ...
Look like they know why their audience numbers have gone down.
Bendy, FYI. Thought you might like this. I know I did. From Post #14...
I received this email and think it spells out the feelings most of us have re: the NFL:
Subject: To the NFL commissioner
Commissioner,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.
I missed the ‘90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines
in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the
American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last
conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how
our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or
for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped
over their coffins.
Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their
lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died
for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of
real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside
playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re
not! My Marines and Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this!
You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the
moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an
immediate stop to this.
Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a
despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected
you or the refs publicly?
I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end
zone after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the
flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right
to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?
Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine
players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the
sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They
are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing
a freaking game! You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re
just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any
sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn
off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur,
without consequence, on the sidelines. I applaud those who have not.
Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and
carry rifles.
They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their
families. They don’t do it for a few hours on Sunday. They do it 24/7
often with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch
their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee
iced. They don’t even have ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.
Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.
They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down
to safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in
that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are,
legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those
worms with you!
Time to change the channel.
Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC-(ret)
It came up with paragraphs in the preview. I always check.
“Ok, so the NFL has been put on notice. Wouldn’t it be nice if all conservatives dedicated a couple of weeks (and hopefully more) to totally avoid movies? If nothing else it should be a wake up call to studios to let them know the size of the audience they continue to anger.”
I have been doing my part since 1970. I have not paid to see a movie since “Patton” was released.
Furthermore, I refuse to watch old movies on TV of known-socialists. The socialist ‘actors’ turn my stomach when I see them or even hear about them.
I suggested what you have said on FR years ago. The response, for the most part, was, “Ah, well. It’s just entertainment.” It was unbelievable to them that I had not been inside of a movie theater since 1970.
Political correctness. It kills everything it touches.
why has it taken this long..
I love your phraseology....
the courts have already ruled that the sports leagues...like the NBA...are private enterprises and can do whatever they want in regards to fixing games...
and there is definitely an attitude in the NFL to push certain players, especially black players and especially black qbs....
Aw man, I am gonna steal that...XD
Semper Fi.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.