Media Circus: It's Early, But the NFL is Likely Concerned with TV Ratings Decline

Sports Illustrated ^ | 9/20/2017 | RICHARD DEITSCH

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

How Football Stopped Being Fun, I think that hits it as well as anything else. The NFL has the same delusion that many entertainers have in the past: they think that the money truck will keep pulling up to the house with no end in sight. Vegas used to think that, too.

[dila813]

We had worse team seasons and people still watched the games. This time is different.

[Chode]

everybody google #dienfldie or dienfldie or die nfl die and see if we can get it trending in it's search engine

[Alberta's Child]

President Trump stirred up a real sh!t-pot with his suggestion that a player who refused to stand for the national anthem should be fired, but that was really nothing compared to the rest of his criticism.

I think the NFL and the media are taking him to task for his "get that son of a b!tch off the field!" comment because they want to avoid any discussion of the OTHER comment he made -- where he said the NFL has destroyed football by turning into a boring game with penalty flags for silly infractions.

[grania]

If everyone who is fed up with the NFL pandering to millionaire know-it-alls who seem arrogantly opposed to anyone not sharing their skin color avoids NFL advertisers whenever convenient, it’ll have a real impressive cumulative effect.

[tennmountainman]

This article does not mention anthem kneeling player protest
as being a reason for a decline in ratings.
The NFL and MSM want to sweep it under the rug.
Trump just pulled the rug back to expose the filth
that lies underneath it.

[Steely Tom]

Here’s a theory:

NFL C-level guys see the concussion and injury stuff coming at them like a runaway freight train. They’re thinking about the silicone breast implant lawsuit that almost wiped out Dow Corning, they’re thinking about the tobacco lawsuit, and they’re thinking “it’s only a matter of time.”

So what they do is try to go the SJW route, try to forestall the inevitable by going wall-to-wall virtue signaling.

I don’t know, but I can see it happening.

[glasseye]

National Felons League?
No thank you, ever.

[euram]

I’d like to see all these teams go broke. Then the millionaire crybullies can play in their backyards. But, we all know that eventually most of them would end up playing for their local prison team.

[nickedknack]

National Negro Felons League

"Truth in advertising"

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[Kozy]

NFL lost their brand to protesters. Ask the U of Missouri how that is going for them. Protesters control the university and enrollment is down. See any parallel?

[samantha]

The bottom line is football fans will not pay good money to watch a butt wipe overpaid scum diss the national anthem. I am not watching the dolphins at jets game on cbs right now totally disinterested after 50 years of being a fan I am done. The games has been destroyed.

[RayChuang88]

I'll say this: the NFL league offices are privately PRAYING that the owners of the two daily fantasy sites, Draft Kings and FanDuel, keep their mouths shut.

The NFL very well knows that daily fantasy sports is a huge factor in propping up the league. One wrong comment from these companies and that will immediately destroy daily fantasy sports, and the NFL's popularity will REALLY take a huge nosedive.

[grania]

The game has been destroyed

When the NFL needed a savior, instead it got a leader who panders to the forces causing its destruction. I wonder how many people who are all-in for this disrespect actually spend money on the NFL.

[dfwgator]

Fantasy Football was what was keeping the NFL afloat.

Things like “NFL Red Zone” were created exclusively for the Fantasy Football player to track their players.

[SaxxonWoods]

The NFL has made disrespect of American heritage official policy.

Act accordingly depending on your view of American heritage.

[Steve_Seattle]

"So what they do is try to go the SJW route, try to forestall the inevitable by going wall-to-wall virtue signaling."

Not just the NFL, but corporate virtue-signaling has gone off the charts in the last couple of years. We hear everything from "football is family" to "love is what makes a Subaru," and many corporations - including the NFL - make a big show of how they are "giving back to the community." (Having grown up with the Biblical story of the "widow's mite," I am not particularly impressed when multi-millionaire football players set up some sort of "foundation" with a portion of their millions.)

Corporations - perhaps living in fear of left-wing shakedowns, or perhaps out of conviction - are increasingly adopting left-wing political messages, including open support for gay marriage. The Seattle WNBA team is even "partnering" with Planned Parenthood!

Listen to the voices in TV ads: more and more, they are "nice," slightly effeminate, non-threatening young men, talking in a voice that no real man ever uses. It is weird.

[RayChuang88]

Hence my comment. Can you imagine the owner of Draft Kings or FanDuel saying they support the NFL? They could lose half their accounts in a blink of an eye, and that will accelerate the NFL’s decline.

[ponygirl]

I have always loved NFL football, but I’m done. Today I will be live-streaming the PBR...you want to see some real athletes? Who love their country? And who thank God every time they get up off the dirt and walk away in one piece? And who don’t wear pink wristbands and virtue signal?

[UB355]

and pink clothing in October