Posted on 10/04/2016 12:02:30 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The latest of the Colin Kaepernick effect was felt across the football landscape this weekend. Beginning with high school football games, to members of the East Carolina Marching Band refusing to play the National Anthem, the “Kaepernick effect” is far reaching and exposing layers to our national season of discontent and discourse.
It’s also having an effect on perennial ratings darling, the National Football League.
#BoycottNFL is working, and media watchers, ad people, and the folks at Forbes.com are beginning to talk about a trend likely not to change anytime soon.
Regardless of your personal views or your politics, the conventional wisdom that the “too big to fail” NFL may find itself at a crossroads it can’t ignore or placate much longer.
Week one of the NFL on CBS, FOX, and the Sunday Night NBC game saw their lowest ratings in seven years. Week two also saw the decline continue when ESPN and Monday Night Football saw its lowest numbers since 2006.
Week three and four have seen those number continue to decline. With no end in sight, and both sides voicing dissenting opinions, the NFL may find its hand forced on an issue it would rather not. And don’t pretend other leagues aren’t paying attention, (eye’s on you NBA and NHL)...
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He is unlikely to see the field this season because they will have to pay him in full next year should he get injured. Getting paid a lot now just sitting on the bench. Distraction city.
If I wanted dialogue I’d watch Wall Street Week instead of the NFL.
Kaepernick doesn’t bother me. He’s just a has-been and a fool. My beef is with Goodell and the NFL for not coming down on the right side on this issue. Goodell has all but endorsed Kaepernick by allowing him and his homies to turn what should be a pleasant diversion into an annoyance. I can see BLM trashing whitey when I watch the news; I don’t need it when I watch a football game.
But he’s destroying the NFL brand ... he’s now the most expensive player in the NFL, when you calculate what he has cost the league. I’d pay money to hear what the owners are saying to each other ...
They don’t want a dialogue, they want to lecture us.
All this is 100% Jed York’s fault.
Joke: “I left two ‘niner tickets on my front seat. When I returned I saw my car window smashed. There were now four tickets.
The democrat/communist media/entertainment/propaganda complex violated an unwritten rule of American life they should have known existed, but in their partisan hubris they thought they could ignore: DO NOT MIX SPORTS WITH POLITICS. Sports was the one thing that united Americans of different political stripes. I have liberal friends who, like me, are Cub fans. We argue politics but love the Cubs. Sports are our escape from all the political divisiveness.
They crossed the line. People are pissed. They have a product that is 0% necessity and 100% luxury. You would think they would value its image above all else, but no. Americans are turning their backs on it. And my guess is that they will learn nothing from this, and in fact will double down on it.
Not a football fan, don’t even watch TV (for probably 10 years now).
But, why is this an issue? He has an employer, and he has a “supervisor”, and he has “work time” and “non-work time”. Said Anthem standown occurs on “work time”, where he should be obligated to do whatever the team and league want. If he did a “stand-down” when he was supposed to be running footballs down the field, he’d be out on the street in 5 minutes flat.
Goodell recently said he wants the players to “speak out on social issues.” That means throw the same commie, P.C. crap in our faces that we get everywhere else. If someone from the other side speaks, they get treated like the Mariners pitcher.
Along with the fact that’s it’s crappy, mushy football, who wants to watch that?
Marketing 101 - Pi$$ing off the customer is not a path to success.
The NFL’s refusal to allow the Cowboys to salute the slain Dallas police officers is as least as egregious as allowing the idiot 49er to warm the bench.
If the lame azz media had not jumped on this, it would’ve blown over by now....
“Bringing dialogue”??? Is that what they’re calling killing ratings these days?
“Dialog”? Really? All I see and hear are leftists shouting down anyone who tries to discuss anything with them in a rational manner.
well said
My beef is with Goodell and the NFL for not coming down on the right side on this issue. Goodell has all but endorsed Kaepernick by allowing him and his homies to turn what should be a pleasant diversion into an annoyance. I can see BLM trashing whitey when I watch the news; I don’t need it when I watch a football game.
Corporations have 100% embraced the progressive agenda. Homos in the boy scouts, etc. Now the NFL nonsense is just the latest chapter of the left on the march through American institutions.
Yeah, he’s okay to do that just as the Hands Up Don’t Shoot T’s that were worn. But don’t you dare put a small decal on your helmet honoring those five cops that were shot. No No No otherwise we’ll fine you.
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