Posted on 09/11/2017 12:36:31 AM PDT by Zakeet
The start of the NFL season is normally a pretty big deal across the country. Apparently Los Angeles and San Francisco didn't get the memo.
The Rams and 49ers each opened their season at home Sunday, and both teams had to start their games with lots of empty seats in the stadium.
The Rams are hosting the the Colts, but it seems like the los Angeles fans are not that concerned about being there to see it in person.
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The 49ers are welcoming the Panthers, but not even Cam Newton could attract a crowd that wanted to show up for kickoff.
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plus they have priced tickets, parking and food out of the reach of normal fans
“Wow. And LA has such a track record of huge pro football crowd support that the NFL transited the city from zero teams to two teams very quickly. Smart move (sarc/).”
Your post was so right. Former sportswriter for the St. Louis newspaper, popularly known as the “Past Disgust,” pointed out a few years before the Rams moved back to LA that StL fans attended Rams games better during the ~2007-12 period (when they were attrocious) than did LA fans in the mid-1980’s (when they routinely made the playoffs).
I agree with you about the real heroes part. The word hero has lost it’s true meaning. It is frivolously tossed around
these days on people who get to play a game or any other leftist who is in their so called news. Newspeak is working just like they planned.
According to my friend who works for a company connected to the NFL - Most teams sell out via season tickets. The only people who care about empty seats are the hot dog and beer vendors. Most of the team revenue comes from TV $$. The games would be played in an empty stadium as long it was on TV.
Jets fans are just masochists in need of therapy. =-O
As a Raiders fan since the AFL I have wondered whether I was headed down the same road. But things are looking up.
Do Jets fans still pack sports bars on draft day so they can boo their teams draft picks?
Those empty seats are a thing of beauty to me!
I will GUARANTEE that before the season is over, the MSM, the NFL, and the Liberal left (all one-in-the-same) will claim that the drop in viewership (which continues to decline) was caused by the fact that no team signed Colin! MARK MY WORDS! Their lack of viewership will be blamed on the “pro-Colin” boycott NOT because of the ACTUAL continued Anti-America rhetoric which the NFL continues to allow!!
I sure wouldn’t bet against you.
LA has a long standing reputation of being ambivalent where NFL football is concerned. The original LA Rams moved to St. Louis, the Raiders moved to LA from Oakland then back to the Bay area. Yet the NFL in their infinite wisdom now have two teams playing in LA. Go figure.
“How many teams had players taking a knee during the anthem yesterday?”
Probably most.
I was clicking through the channels when I chanced upon the Cleveland Browns opening.
They had a group of uniformed cops run onto the field with them and they all stood, arms linked for the anthem.
They addressed the krapperdink and BLM crowds with one gesture.
Pretty cool.
And then you have so many like me refusing to watch it.
Hats off to the Giants and Cowboys. Didn't see a single player taking a knee or having a seat during the Anthem. Of course, if a Cowboy player tried that Jerry would fire their ass.
Don't watch 'em on TV either. The sponsors will soon get the word about viewership and stop paying big bucks for the ads.
Probably true. And they’ll blame yesterday’s crowd decline due to people wanting to stay home and watch the hurricane in Florida.
I watched that game on TV yesterday. They destroyed Dallas FC. They're a good team.
Lifelong NFL fan here but I'm boycotting their anti-American hogwash. I watched all three televised MLS games yesterday. The night game -- LA vs Seattle-- was highly entertaining. Screw the NFL. In my house now, it's only college football and soccer.
Exactly what I did. Watched some Bundesliga then MLS.
But by embracing radical black activism as a sacrament, and sending out Leftist agent provocateurs on ESPN to lecture white America on how they are supposed to think, the league has kicked off a huge wave of cold indifference among white fans - and now that those fans have such a giant palette of entertainment options available to them they have very few ways to win them back.
My stepson was glued to the Cardinals game yesterday, over-emoting with every twist and turn. I remembered how I used to feel that way about the Joe Montana-era 49ers, thirty years ago. Now? There is simply no feeling left for the NFL - and it's never coming back.
Agreed.
Good post.
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