Posted on 10/07/2017 7:40:57 AM PDT by Zakeet
Over just one month of player, coach and owner protests of the flag and National Anthem, the National Football League has gone from America's sport to the least liked of top professional and college sports, according to a new poll.
From the end of August to the end of September, the favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57 percent to 44 percent, and it has the highest unfavorable rating -- 40 percent -- of any big sport, according to the Winston Group survey provided exclusively to Secrets.
Worse for football, which was already seeing lower TV ratings and empty stadium seats, the month of protests and complaints about them from President Trump drove core fans, men 34-54, away, the most significant indicator that NFL brass aren't in touch with their base.
The Winston Poll from the Washington-based Winston Group found that the attitude of those fans went from an August rating of 73 percent favorable and 19 percent unfavorable to 42 percent favorable and 47 percent unfavorable, a remarkable turn against the sport.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Goodell still has his job.
Why?
Skip the NFL entirely for two weekends in a row and you’ll look back and wonder why you ever wasted so many hours of your life on useless bullish!t.
Just more bad news for the NFL. Next major advertisers will start to bail, or, at the very least, renegotiate their ad fees to a fraction of what they currently pay, i.e., Budweiser.
Even lower than soccer? Ouch!!!
Good question. Do they feel the strong need to bend over backwards to prove that they are liberal? Even at the cost of the value of their business???
And what do they gain by appeasing radical liberal types?
Radical liberal types tend not to follow sports in the first place. So it’s not like they gain new customers or new fans from taking the liberal side on these protests.
The current situation is due to the NFL's black players deciding to play identity politics. ANY new league, if it had a majority of black players, would exhibit the same characteristics of the current NFL.
Going down, down, down, down!
WE ARE WINNING!
Pour beer down the drain??? Why?!
Many fans had already stopped watching before this year's protests. My husband had become more and more frustrated with NFL recruiting thugs, and crazy rules over the years. He stopped watching last year when they allowed Kaepernick to protest during the National Anthem. We know several others that stopped watching then too.
Before all the backlash about the protests this year I read article after article about the NFL trying to figure out why they had lost fans. Excuse after excuse... Talk about out of touch!
The financial worth of the team is tied to the cash flow from advertisers, who are vulnerable to attacks from the Left.
The good news is today is college game day.
I guess calling your a bunch of racist is not such a hot idea....whod a thought!!!
I hope they don't take it out on their wives and girlfriends.
I don't think I can read more stories or watch more videos of those thugs beating up defenseless women.
PC works by insidiously replacing a strong value system with a knee-jerk fear reaction. PC seeks to own you by replacing your intellect and conscience. Witness the owners pure fear directed response when A) Players of a certain minority group did a thing on company time that should have gotten them rebuked...but didnt. Not even fear of angering the customer held any sway in the minds of the purely controlled owners.
Ray Lewis’ statue needs to come down.
Any billionaire owner who allowed himself to be bullied into kowtowing (apologies for the racial insensitivity /s) to a bunch of illiterate punks isn’t a man. They are so worried about being excluded from one of the world’s most exclusive vanity clubs, that they would disown their own mothers if Goodell told them it was a requirement of ownership. They are cowards all.
NFL stinketh. Where can the carcass be disposed?
BOYCOTT the NFL ,,, send them a message ,,, like the 0J Simpson jury did . White men and LEOs should surely boycott the NFL .
“KneeGroes”
Bahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
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