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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The only dialogue I want to hear in the NFL are “OMAHA” and Norman and Beckham trash talking.
I think the Dixie Chicks found that out. They went from the top to the gutter.
>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.
There’s always NHL.
Agree 100%
Goodell is a PC whipped idiot
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.
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
“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.
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.
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?
“They have a product that is 0% necessity and 100% luxury”
That should be the quote of the day. So correct.
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.
I am skipping the NFL and their advertisers this year.
Is there a place to find out who the NFL advertisers are? (Without watching the games).
Cubs suck.
Also, the games haven’t been very good.
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
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.
NFL is dead to me. ‘Pod.
I don’t understand why people would cheer for people that obviously hate them. The NFL is done.
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