The NFL will give Pappa Johns more spots. They’re losing business because people aren’t ordering pizza ‘cause they’re not watching the games. Shows how out of touch the NFL is.
That's like saying, "Well, I'm taking a loss on each item, but I'll make up for it in volume ..."
“The NFL will give Pappa Johns more spots.”
Not sure that 20% more ads to 80% of the audience produces the same number of pizza sales.
I challenge anyone who for whatever reason - boycott, time conflicts, you name it - has missed watching (m)any NFL games this season, to sit down and attempt to watch a (portion of) game.
I predict you won't last 5 minutes; NFL football is simply insufferable. It is (has become) increasingly boring, with an incredible amount of interruptions that disturb the flow and pace the game. Whether lackadaisical play, penalties, reviews, and/or frequent commercial breaks, it is impossible to hold any functioning person's attention.
This is the real effect of the push-back: a nation of virtual zombies has seemingly broken the spell. It took generations of programming to take hold, nurtured on dramatics and sporting heroics. But then the league changed the formula hoping no one would notice. Sure, small pockets of resistance were forming in various fields, but overall the threat was minimal.
Now, the NFL could start all over, but all the theatrics, all the false signalling, all the nonsense would have to first be stripped away. The WLB WS is an absolute great example of what sporting entertainment should be: athletic drama at its finest.
Bonus question: anyone else with wife/SO who typically has no interest in sports, but has been (weirdly) following the WS with avid interest? I'm wondering when this phenomenon will begin to be discussed.
I stopped buying Papa John’s precisely BECAUSE of their advertising with the NFL, not because I’m not watching football.