Posted on 10/13/2017 10:50:32 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
As the controversy around NFL players protesting during the national anthem percolates, sports executives are wary about how it is impacting their business.
Asked this week at the AXS Ticketing Symposium whether the controversy is affecting the NFL’s business, Houston Texans president Jamey Rootes said, “I think it’s starting to.”
While Rootes said the Texans are still filling NRG Stadium to capacity and that no sponsors have jumped ship, he added, “It’s just in feedback we’ve gotten. Like, ‘Hey, this is not good for the game.’ Or ‘This is not good for my connection to the Houston Texans.’ …
“We’ll get through this like we have with other challenges before. The question is how quickly we’ll get back to normalcy,” Rootes said.
Rootes’ comments typify the tone at the conference attended by some of the top executives in the sports industry.
One unnamed exec told SportsBusiness Daily, “We love our jobs because we’re in the fun business. Well, these days, the job isn’t much fun.”
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Good!
Right now the Texans are a distant second on the minds of Houstonians.
You don’t say.
This is the new normal unless the protests end.
“I think it’s starting to.”
When Preparation H doesn’t work anymore . . .
When do does the NFL sell its ads?
What I’m curious about is at what point the chickens will really come home to roost for the NFL?
LOLOL
...because JJ Watt is out for the season again.
-PJ
This is the new normal unless the protests end.
Just as a lot of us discovered there is life after baseball, after the infamous baseball strike.
Again, I am adding BOYCOTTNFL to these threads... As a common way to track.
What I’m curious about is at what point the chickens will really come home to roost for the NFL?
I can see it now - scalpers in front of the stadium selling discount ad time. :)
<< This is the new normal unless the protests end. >>
Even if they end, the damage has been done. The majority of NFL fans are now no longer in denial about the fact that the majority of NFL players hate their guts.
I hope the protests continue. The NFL needs an enema
Boy does it itch when you lie down with fleas!
yep. paste is outta the tube...
The question is how quickly we’ll get back to normalcy
That’s what the buggy whip folks said about Henry Ford
What the NFL is forgetting is that fandom is sort of like a “trance”. And if you break the trance, you are done. I mean, DONE.
The trance has been broken for a lot of folks, and every game it is broken for more people. They’ll need to depend on a new generation, but those potential fans will probably go to things like soccer and Grand Theft Auto.
Football will probably not die, but it will probably be just slightly higher in weekly popularity than boxing.
And as fewer and fewer kids start playing the game due to the new awareness of the real risk of permanent damage, that just might snowball.
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