Colin Kaepernick and his liberal sycophants are driving people away.
The current ticket sales numbers are meaningless, because they reflect pre-season box seat owners who bought tickets for every game. By next year, they will be long gone.
Dear NFL Owners. Is an average ticket buyer more likely to be a Hillary voter or a Trump voter? Fix the problem of player anti-Americanism, or expect to fiance your team on sales of cheap seats to liberal Blacks.
From the pictures I’ve seen, saying it was half-full is being generous.
Nope. The average ticket buyer is companies using them to entertain guests/family/potential customers. John Q. Public can't afford a ticket to an NFL stadium.
I won’t watch the NFL after the Browns started their insanity in the preseason with the coach’s and owner’s permission. Goodbye NFL
The Players Union apparently thinks the problem is that the NFL is insufficiently respectful to black people.
College football should be played on Saturday.
Football, both College and Pro has become overexposed.
It's a mystery just what the problem is. Just like the mystery trying to find the motive behind the Allah Akbar killers.
The Kaepernick Effect?
No, it’s the ‘Lousy Losers Effect’............
A bigger concern for the NFL -- to the point that they are probably very alarmed over it -- was the multitude of empty seats last week in Washington for the first game of the season between two long-time NFC East rivals (Redskins and Eagles) from cities only three hours apart. Up until a few years ago there's no way in hell you'd ever see empty seats at a game like that.
Stop giving them your money to insult you.
Let them get real jobs.
That is a good thing to hear
PTrons of football should walk out of the stadium in defense of the flag if they see someone kneeling.
They should demand a refund if it’s abut money. But people have a price on defending the flag apparently
Trump cannot do everything. We need to speak up. Or our freedom of speech will continue to go into the hands of the America haters
I’d love to see the day the entire organization went completely bankrupt
I’ve heard that the traffic and parking situations for that stadium are both gawd-awful.
I’d like to see at least a dozen half-full NFL stadiums to ensure that the point was getting across.
It’s not a Kaepernick effects, it’s the effect of being an awful team that had yet to score an offensive touchdown. Bad teams have a hard time selling tickets. And while they managed to put up points finally, they still lost. Expect things to not get any better there.
I thgink a better bellweather would be TV viewers- Has that been goign down significantly as well?
Its California - which is important.
Conservatives/traditionalists in San Francisco are a small and oppressed political minority. Like all minorities, they are conscious of their status, without being told or threatened directly.
They know most government and societal institutions are against them, so they lay low and do not speak out.
there is a venue or event that is neutral, they will come out. California is a “thought leader” among leftists in the USA, and they have signaled that the NFL is now a political battlefield. Once it has been demonstrated they are not welcome, traditionalists will retreat - not out of protest, but out of fear and discomfort.
NFL players can always fall back on their drug dealing and dog fighting side jobs.
It’s wrong to conclude that selling the tickets is what matters for the bottom line. They get the ticket revenue but lose out on parking, concessions, merchandise - and next year’s ticket sales. This is going to cost them for years to come, and I will cheer every step of the way.
Right, and there's absolutely no reason to pander to a small number of spoiled Black NFL players.
The NBA has an even higher proportion of Blacks, but it also has guidelines in place which prevent disrespect for the national anthem and flag. NBA players who want to push their politics can (and do) do so "off the clock".
There's no reason the NFL can't be doing the same. Indeed, the stupidity of the League management is absolutely breathtaking. If they corrected their idiocy, this porblem would disappear virtually overnight—notwithstanding all the CTE hysteria.
As for me, my attitude closely parallels that of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones: Cowboys Will Stand For The Flag Or “Your Ass Will Be Off The Team”.
That's leadership. Far too many other NFL owners and head coaches—such as, unfortunately, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and head coach Adam Gase (my team)—have instead chosen cowardice...
Imagine what it will look like in December as the Niners are heading towards a 2-14 season. Maybe they can fill Levi’s Stadium with all those homeless people in SF to pump up their attendance numbers.
It might have been half full because of the following:
1. Both Teams Stink
2. Fans could stay home and watch the game on NFL Network
3. It is Thursday night and a lot of fans have to get up
and go to work on Friday.