Posted on 09/26/2017 9:24:52 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
NEW YORK (AP) — Through three weeks, viewership for national telecasts of NFL games is down 11 percent this season compared to 2016, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday.
Nielsen said the games averaged 17.63 million viewers for the first three weeks of last season, and have dipped to 15.65 million this year. The Nielsen figures don’t include many of the Sunday afternoon games that are shown to a regional audience, but not a national one.
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<< These days, baseball is more like Latin America’s favorite pastime. That’s where most of the best players are from. >>
Many, but not most. Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are the top two players in MLB, both white. Paul Goldschmidt, Joey Votto, Charlie Blackmon, Kris Bryant, Buster Posey. All white Americans, and all in the top 13 or so. And when pitching is taken into consideration, the situation becomes even whiter.
year-to-year is far from the only issue, since last year was already down double-digits... it would be more relevant to see all the before/after data since Kaeperdick started this b.s.
Of course, it should be down at least 50% !!! Why are patriots still watching?????
Interesting that “Careerbuilder.com” nailed the NFL’s marketing department perfectly in their 2014 Super Bowl ad. See it on YouTube here:
And wasn’t 2016 season down as well from 2015?
Over all 2016 was an 8% drop from 2015 and if this year holds it will be close to 20% drop over two years since CK take a kneel started. Wanna see the leftist cucks who traditionally hate jocks defend the ratings and say “they’re really not what they seem”?
Check this trash out from NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/sports/football/nfl-ratings-trump.html?mcubz=1
How long before they retool how they count attendance and ratings to make the NFL look good?
Baseball would be 100 percent white, or nearly so, if MLB would recruit from the many fine college programs instead of looking overseas.
Still, baseball is a much better deal for our people than football. And likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
Honestly, if I had a son, I’d sooner have him playing baseball — better people, plenty of skill and strategy, and less chance of getting badly hurt.
In the minors MLB can recruit 3 Latin American players for what one American kid will cost them. This is a large factor for the disproportionate number of Latin players in the majors.
Ultimately this will make Americans indifferent to MLB simply because people don’t identify with foreign players. Americans like the ones on their home team, but other than a star they can’t identify who is who on other teams. This breeds a loss of interest.
People follow baseball for a lot of reasons other than simply winning. MLB can tell themselves multi-culti fairy tales all that they want. Baseball fans aren’t likely to buy it.
NFL
No Fans Left
Right on all counts, gentlemen.
Not players from a major college program gets overlooked by MLB these days. The few that do get multiple other opportunities in independent leagues.
The Latin players are attractive because they’ve usually logged many times the hours of play as their American counterparts the same age, and don’t have much objection to spending four to six years in the minors.
The recent percentage of decline is but a small wave before the tidal wave hits in relationship to sponsorship. The vast majority of fans of the NFL do not like what is happening. If this crap keeps going on they will quit buying from the advertisers on the NFL. If such happens, that is okay and the NFL will die.
The free market works, and the free market is killing the NFL. Let it rest in peace of self inflicted political correctness suicide.
I miss Tom Landry. He would have not tolerated this crap.
I am such a captive having no over the air options and not wanting a computer jury-rig for watching a few movies. Wife does watch and record a few things that are real-time.
And their sponsors to some degree.
I have not watched a game since Tom Landry was fired. That was 1989 the year the NFL died.
Players' got talent, they all hafta throw and run and catch to play ball, but worst you gotta hit it too. For the rest of us it's softball, anybody can play.
A nationally known football analyst, ESPN's John Clayton, said on my local Seattle sports radio that the ratings drop was also due to people waiting for the next Trump pronouncement and it's impact now that the election is over.
I actually said out loud "WTF?!" at the car radio, when I heard that
That is it? What is the problem of the other 89%? Folks really need to wake up.
JoMa
Wait until after this weekend
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