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Why is TV viewership down? (NFL)
NBC Sports ^ | September 29, 2016 | Mike Florio

Posted on 09/29/2016 11:01:59 AM PDT by captaincaveman

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To: captaincaveman

So many mysteries... NFL, Target, FBI, servers, mass attackers, missing immigrants, TB, cut feeds... so mysterious...


61 posted on 09/29/2016 11:28:23 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: captaincaveman
I am DONE with the NFL. Those idiots don't deserve my money.
62 posted on 09/29/2016 11:29:58 AM PDT by vinny29
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To: CapitalistCrusader
Here’s a suggestion. Ask Colin Kapernick.

Better suggestion: Axe Colin Kaepernick.

63 posted on 09/29/2016 11:30:09 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Talisker

Yep...the NFL has started to spiral into oblivion just as NASCAR has done years before.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2016/07/01/nascar-declining-attendance-tv-ratings-fans-social-media/86573130/


64 posted on 09/29/2016 11:31:11 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: captaincaveman

Because people are sick of watching a bunch of whiny SJWs and thugs who got rich for playing a game.


65 posted on 09/29/2016 11:32:08 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: CapitalistCrusader

Their felons are becoming too obnoxious.


66 posted on 09/29/2016 11:32:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: joshua c

LOL!!!


67 posted on 09/29/2016 11:33:20 AM PDT by vinny29
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To: captaincaveman

The NFL’s confusion at why viewership is down is the same as the confusion expressed by Liberal mayors/police chiefs about motive when Achmed Mohammed Hussein blows himself up in a crowd while yelling “allahu akbar! Kill the infidels!”


68 posted on 09/29/2016 11:33:37 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: captaincaveman
Some are suggesting that the anthem protests are causing fans to boycott the NFL, but it’s hard to see a connection between the objections to the behavior of a small group of players and the decision of significant numbers of fans to deprive themselves of something they enjoy.

Dear God, are they kidding? If the author finds this "hard to see" he isn't looking. Every military and police veteran in the audience is at least a little angry. This demographic is composed principally, but not exclusively, of adult males with enough disposable income and leisure time to be fans. Let us look at the NFL's target demographic. Voila! Principally, but not exclusively, adult males with enough disposable income and leisure time to be fans. Let us subtract a significant portion of demographic 1 from demographic 2. What do you know? Viewership is down!

This isn't difficult, although quite a lot of money is spent on market research that states the obvious. We neither need nor desire political instruction emanating from privileged millionaires, whether they be players, coaches, or commentators. If that's what we get, we turn it off. If they shut up and stick to football, we don't.

The only way ostensibly intelligent people such as the author can maintain this obtuseness is to be in jaw-tightening, anus-clenching denial of the obvious. That's a personal problem we just can't help him with.

69 posted on 09/29/2016 11:33:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: max americana

Krappernick?


70 posted on 09/29/2016 11:34:05 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: captaincaveman

i worked for an investment bank on the 48th floor of that building :) it was nice but got tiresome after a number of years of commuting.


71 posted on 09/29/2016 11:34:53 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: demkicker

Thank you for your service sir.


72 posted on 09/29/2016 11:34:58 AM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: captaincaveman

Ummmm - because they are rapidly becoming an arm of the Democrat party?????


73 posted on 09/29/2016 11:35:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Ouderkirk

NASCAR decided that they had moved on to bigger and better things, and began insulting their core fan base. The resulting loss of attendance and viewership doesn’t seem to have had much effect, other than network cameras framing their shots to avoid showing empty sections in the stands.


74 posted on 09/29/2016 11:36:01 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Doogle
Mexicans don’t watch the NFL...

I was going to say it's because the games are set up by liberal elites... but the term is wrong. It's more like the games are set up by the monied class - and their style dosen't appeal to Mexicans OR middle class Americans (for different reasons). Seems the monied class doesn't give a damn about football...sportsmenship, our country or the safety of fans driving into crimeridden 'communities'.... They care about cash bled from the game. It shows.

The moneid class could save money by recruiting directly from prisons and playing the games in prison yards... beamed directly to gamblers in Las Vegas etc... why keep up any pretense?

75 posted on 09/29/2016 11:36:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (If Lester Holt's too stupid to ask follow-ups without an ear piece he should be disqualified.)
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To: captaincaveman
The decline has become a mystery, for the media and surely for the NFL.

LOL! A mystery? Grown men playing a kid's game, granted at a high level, being paid enormous amounts of money; decide to ditch it all for some fraudulent fad via Soros' BLM. I would like to know in what other country these boys could be making the salaries that they are making here?

76 posted on 09/29/2016 11:36:54 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Doogle
Mexicans don’t watch the NFL...

I was going to say it's because the games are set up by liberal elites... but the term is wrong. It's more like the games are set up by the monied class - and their style doesn't appeal to Mexicans OR middle class Americans (for different reasons). Seems the monied class doesn't give a damn about football...sportsmanship, our country or the safety of fans driving into crime-ridden 'communities'.... They care about cash bled from the game. It shows.

The moneid class could save money by recruiting directly from prisons and playing the games in prison yards... beamed directly to gamblers in Las Vegas etc... why keep up any pretense?

77 posted on 09/29/2016 11:37:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (If Lester Holt's too stupid to ask follow-ups without an ear piece he should be disqualified.)
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To: Doogle
You may be on to something. There are now 42.5 million foreign born in this country or about one in 7 people. And the percentage will continue to increase. They are not American football fans, but real football fans.

American football is a niche sport as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

78 posted on 09/29/2016 11:39:04 AM PDT by kabar
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To: captaincaveman
Tired of anti Americanism, hip hop silliness, rich spoiled stupid athletes that have gone through college on the merit of their skin color and athletic ability bringing ghetto gangsta rap music ignorance to the field.
The idolatry of ignorant overpaid overinflated egos and general disgust in blacks acting out in racist under and overtones.
79 posted on 09/29/2016 11:39:15 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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80 posted on 09/29/2016 11:40:40 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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