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Through Week 4, the NFL Shows Massive Viewer Loss Among All Key Demos
Breitbart ^ | October 6 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 10/06/2017 12:41:13 PM PDT by EliRoom8

The NFL is not just losing white viewers. The NFL isn’t just losing black viewers. No, the NFL is hemorrhaging viewers of all races and ages, and they’re doing so at a frightening pace. With the NFL’s Week 4 in the rear-view mirror, a review of TV ratings through the league’s first month show that the NFL has lost millions of viewers year-over-year, a decline that has picked up speed so far this year. As Awful Announcing recently put it, “It seems everyone is mad at the NFL.”

Overall, viewership is down seven percent over 2016, which is bad enough for the league. However, this year’s slippage is not the first. Indeed, 2016 — the year of the first national anthem protests — saw a nine percent decline over 2015.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nfl; nflboycott; takeaknee; trends; winning
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To: Fiddlstix
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
41 posted on 10/06/2017 1:11:46 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: EliRoom8

NFL.com- Jan 2017 peaked at 28,781,000 in website traffic.

10 months later, website traffic is at 8,751,500.

https://www.trafficestimate.com/nfl.com


42 posted on 10/06/2017 1:13:11 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: OKSooner

Yeah...Tony and his buddy Vinnie...from the Brooklyn Persuader’s club...


43 posted on 10/06/2017 1:15:07 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Avalon Memories

I personally think that’s the reason why they aren’t selling seats in Los Angeles. There are no American citizen Angelenos left.


44 posted on 10/06/2017 1:16:08 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: moovova

Hugh too.


45 posted on 10/06/2017 1:17:06 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: freedumb2003
Is MLB still OK?

There was one bozo for the Oakland A's who knelt. He got sent back to the minors the next day.

The Yankees did an absolutely beautiful job with both the anthem and a moment of silent PRAYER for the Las Vegas victims and their families.


46 posted on 10/06/2017 1:21:10 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Now there’s a REAL game! Thanks!


47 posted on 10/06/2017 1:21:24 PM PDT by beelzepug (H,MN! WIAM? DMS!)
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To: EliRoom8
The numbers show a 12 percent drop in viewership among the 18 to 34 age bracket, a six percent drop among middle-age viewers, and a four percent drop in the over 55 demo.

This is the key takeaway sentence of the article. It seems to support that the NFL is losing the critical youth. They are both not engaging with football fandom or are dropping out.

The 6% drop in middle-age viewers is key as they are the key to what's really happening with NFL viewership.

The 4% drop in the over 55 segment is likely the NFL's hardcore, long-time fans who are giving up watching the NFL for a reason, although leaving the NFL is likely the most difficult for this demographic group.

48 posted on 10/06/2017 1:22:01 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: EliRoom8
If true...I think this is hilarious. Start nuttin, won't be nuttin.
49 posted on 10/06/2017 1:24:49 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: EliRoom8

This is just insanity. They are doing everything they can to insult and antagonize their core audience and most of the people they are trying to kiss up to are not even football fans and viewers in the first place.


50 posted on 10/06/2017 1:25:32 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: EliRoom8
Still not good enough!

BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!

51 posted on 10/06/2017 1:27:06 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: freedumb2003

Yes. The division series playoffs started yesterday. There should be some excellent games coming up.


52 posted on 10/06/2017 1:28:12 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: EliRoom8

53 posted on 10/06/2017 1:33:49 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Obadiah
Each percentage drop is hundreds of thousands of people, and that's just the beginning of the story.

As these millions of fans walk away from a sport they've watched since childhood, they no longer participate in the ancillary activities of buying team gear, or talking about the game with family and friends.

The sport loses it's visibility at homes and in workplaces, and new fans are harder to find.

It's a spiral that could go on for years, maybe never coming out of it.

For decades, baseball was the most popular sport. Football passed it a few years ago, but that dominance is not permanent. Watch as baseball makes a resurgence, and hockey grows to it's best years ever.

54 posted on 10/06/2017 1:33:56 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: GT Vander
Discovered there’s a lot of stuff I can get done on a Sunday afternoon.

I discovered it doesn't matter what's on when I take my Sunday afternoon nap.

55 posted on 10/06/2017 1:34:41 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: EliRoom8
Remember, it's not about the flag or disrespecting the military.

It's about protesting police brutality, specifically the Las Vegas police who disrespected a player who was fleeing from a casino shooting (NFL players seem to have the worst luck being at the wrong place at the wrong time/sarc).

The same Las Vegas police who, both on duty and off duty, responded to heroically to a mass shooting and saved many lives.

Several officers were killed or wounded.

for a bunch of guys who shout BlackLivesMatter, the players seem totally unconcerned about a black police officer who died heroically in the tragedy. with not a peep out of them.

56 posted on 10/06/2017 1:40:01 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: EliRoom8

57 posted on 10/06/2017 1:42:13 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ponygirl

I lived in the Torrance/Manhattan Beach vicinity for 40 years before moving to North Carolina in 2015. Los Angeles didn’t have an NFL team for about a couple of decades and nobody cared. Nobody except the politicians and fat-cat NFL owners who were always looking for some sweetheart deal from the politicians. The more SoCal became de facto Northern Mexico, the less people cared about American football.


58 posted on 10/06/2017 1:46:52 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (The question about fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
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To: dfwgator

Like read.

Or sleep.

Or mow the lawn.

Or read the phone book.


59 posted on 10/06/2017 1:52:13 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
There was one bozo for the Oakland A's who knelt. He got sent back to the minors the next day.

Great info. Thanks.
60 posted on 10/06/2017 1:53:38 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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