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Colin Kaepernick bringing dialogue and low NFL ratings
sports.yahoo.com ^ | Oct 4, 2016, 2:46 PM

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; kaepernick; nationalanthem; nfl; thugculture
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To: 11th_VA

The only dialogue I want to hear in the NFL are “OMAHA” and Norman and Beckham trash talking.


21 posted on 10/04/2016 12:20:43 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Arm_Bears

I think the Dixie Chicks found that out. They went from the top to the gutter.


22 posted on 10/04/2016 12:24:10 PM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

>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.

Well said. To add to that I want a NFL free of politics and political correct horse crap.


23 posted on 10/04/2016 12:24:51 PM PDT by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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To: 11th_VA

There’s always NHL.


24 posted on 10/04/2016 12:28:37 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian
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To: Sans-Culotte

Agree 100%

Goodell is a PC whipped idiot


25 posted on 10/04/2016 12:28:55 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: 11th_VA
Haven't watched an NFL game in at least 15 years. It began with the obnoxious show boating and was exacerbated by ridiculous SB half time shows.

Once an avid fan, I don't miss it a bit. As I grew used to no NFL I dropped NBA with the same pleasant result.

26 posted on 10/04/2016 12:29:17 PM PDT by Baynative (Freedom; the dream of every human, the birth right of every American.)
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To: Leep

This is why the fable of “Killing the Golden Goose” is so compelling. Human nature never changes. And Goodell and the media are killing what is literally a Golden Goose. Until now, being an NFL owner is like owning an oilfield that will never run dry. The TV contract is structured so that they already have a profit before they even sell one ticket or jersey.

But despite the attempt at social engineering, free market capitalism will win in the end. People stop watching, the network ratings fall, ad revenue shrinks, the networks present smaller broadcast rights packages to the league, and then the fun really starts....

...when the league tells the players union that contracts will shrink, too. I can’t wait for that to happen


27 posted on 10/04/2016 12:37:05 PM PDT by henkster (Better to be Pavlov's Dog than Schroedinger's Cat)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“He is unlikely to see the field this season because they will have to pay him in full next year should he get injured.”

Only if he cannot play. If he can play on 4/1 they can drop him. Also, I think the contract is for a few more years.


28 posted on 10/04/2016 12:43:52 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: 11th_VA

I am being dis by the NFL. Fans can play that game.

I am being dis by CNN and TV news and shows. I am playing that game too.


29 posted on 10/04/2016 12:44:36 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: 11th_VA

Professional sports have long since jumped the shark. Most of them act like spoiled children and are treated like “heroes”. Heroes for what — playing a kids game? Really?


30 posted on 10/04/2016 12:47:51 PM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: henkster

“They have a product that is 0% necessity and 100% luxury”

That should be the quote of the day. So correct.


31 posted on 10/04/2016 12:49:11 PM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: C210N

The fact that Goodell is tacitly encouraging this, while at the same time prohibiting the Cowboys from honoring fallen cops on their uniforms, really frosts me.


32 posted on 10/04/2016 12:52:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: alternatives?

I am skipping the NFL and their advertisers this year.


33 posted on 10/04/2016 1:04:49 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Is there a place to find out who the NFL advertisers are? (Without watching the games).


34 posted on 10/04/2016 1:19:42 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: henkster

Cubs suck.


35 posted on 10/04/2016 1:28:29 PM PDT by Defiant (The Koran is the Mohammunist Manifesto.)
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To: 11th_VA

Also, the games haven’t been very good.


36 posted on 10/04/2016 1:44:04 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: alternatives?

Not sure about all of them, but the below link is a CNBC article from 2014 naming some of them and saying how only the advertisers have impact on the NFL — not the fans. http://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/17/nfl-sponsor-wrath-can-they-change-the-pro-football-league.html


37 posted on 10/04/2016 2:01:22 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: DIRTYSECRET

To think they could have offloaded him for a 6th rounder and/or paying a few million of his contract when traded. Thanks to the 49ers (been following them since 1971), we get to live with this nonsense since Kaepernick’s spoiled brat act that started this whole mess.


38 posted on 10/04/2016 2:18:15 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: 11th_VA

NFL is dead to me. ‘Pod.


39 posted on 10/04/2016 2:29:35 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: sauropod

I don’t understand why people would cheer for people that obviously hate them. The NFL is done.


40 posted on 10/04/2016 2:31:14 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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