Monday Night Football Ratings Hit Record Low For Second Straight Week

boston.cbslocal.com ^ | October 18, 2016 12:40 PM | Matt Dolloff, NFL, Sports News

[11th_VA]

BOSTON (CBS) — Monday Night Football in Week 5 featured two underperforming (or just-plain-bad) NFL teams and posted the lowest overnight rating since ESPN acquired the rights to broadcast the show in 2006. The Week 6 contest between the Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets, somehow, performed even worse.

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Of course, there is still the segment of fans who have decided to stop watching the NFL altogether in the wake of players protesting the national anthem, which many mainstream media outlets continue to curiously ignore (save for a select few from Forbes and The Sporting News).

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The NFL is sucking the life out of its own product, and it certainly didn’t help that it started politicizing the broadcasts either. Hundreds of fans have emailed me to declare that they are boycotting the NFL over the anthem protest movement started by the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick. The hashtag #BoycottNFL has been tweeted or retweeted about 1,500 times in just the past 24 hours, according to HashTracking.com. The boycotts are growing and having an effect on the ratings, as much as the league may want to deny it...

[Psalm 73]

"From your first cigarette to your last dying day..."

I always thought it was: "...to your last dying jay" - as in joint?

[RGSpincich]

I was already boycotting the NFL because of the new/recent sissy rules on when, where and how you can hit a ball carrier. All this other stuff is fuel on the fire.

[chajin]

I got it from here http://www.westsidestory.com/site/level2/lyrics/jet.html

[luvbach1]

Monday Night Football isn't the draw that it used to be, so they are often terrible games.

Perhaps you miss handsome Frank Gifford, Dandy Don Meridith ("Turn Out The Lights the Party's Over"), and Howard ("Look at that little monkey run") Cosell.

[needmorePaine]

Perhaps you miss handsome Frank Gifford, Dandy Don Meridith ("Turn Out The Lights the Party's Over"), and Howard ("Look at that little monkey run") Cosell.

LOL. Not my era. I remember Gifford, Michaels, and Dierdorf though.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any TV shots of anyone taking a knee?

[luvbach1]

The Gifford, Meridith, Cosell era was the golden age of Monday Night Football popularity.

[xzins]

#BoycottNFL

[goat granny]

poor guy, I have seen pictures of his house, I think it said its about 50,000 square feet...haven’t heard of him taking in any poor blacks to live with him....he is a jerk...and done nothing for the poor lower class he cares so much about.

[Jeff Chandler]

The Cards got the slot based upon their last year quality. It wasn’t easy to tell if the Cards have stopped under-performing based upon that game because the Jets outright stink.

[glorgau]

Any time there is a big, exciting play you have to hold your breath waiting for a penalty to bring it all back.

Yep, it's like working on your computer and wondering if it's going to crash on every third thing you do. A joyless experience.

[Bender2]

Re: I can boycott anything the NFL politisizes ... but they aren't taking Texas Football away from me without a fight.

Well, Liberty, them other states just don't appreciate flag raising like we do... down here in The Lone Star State!

[bIlluminati]

Hey hey hey, when did the Cardinals move to Arizona?

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I thought they were still in Chicago.

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I think you’re confusing them with the Bishop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyhMYVU31ng