NFL TV Partners Set To Lose Up To $500 Million On Ratings Decline

Outkick the Coverage ^ | 16 Nov 2017 | Clay Travis

[sparklite2]

Reaching waaaaaaaaaaay back...

[alternatives?]

NBC offset $28 million of its loss by eliminating Matt Lauer’s salary.

Win, Win.

Although to be fair, Matt did ask Hillary one question not fed to her in advance.

[Architect of Avalon]

I expect there are Post-It notes all over the locker room walls to keep reminding them how to make an “X”.

[gunsequalfreedom]

NFL TV Partners Set To Lose Up To $500 Million On Ratings Decline.

Good!

[SaveFerris]

I’m sure that influenced their decision as well. It was the first thing I thought of when I heard about it.

No way to prove it but I would not be surprised if Hillary exploded backstage, afterwards.

[Lizavetta]

THAT is a most excellent post. :)

[sparklite2]

I ring my triangle in your honor!

[DeFault User]

Roger Goodell (to ex fans): It's raining, I tell ya', IT'S RAINING!

Ex-Fans: Hmmm, my shirt is all wet and it smells like URINE!

[LibertarianLiz]

What went wrong? Gee, I’m completely baffled...

Yeah, the NFL and Hillary Clinton. Neither can figure out "What Happened?".

[depressed in 06]

While I think the lack of respect shown for the Anthem is despicable. OK, it is a lousy song and I cannot see how one can drink to it. I am sure Colin will go to the nearest mosque and shout down the imam, because, he has a free speech right to do so. But, I think the NFL's problem is too many penalty calls. The game has become boring.

[dsc]

“NFL needin to get a handle on all those hood rats. Juss sayin”

I remember the NFL when there were no hood rats. Woudn’t bother me if they just got rid of all the criminals.

[ro_dreaming]

I’ll be honest, part of my “fed-up-ed-ness” is due to it being on 3 or 4 times a week. When you had 14 games on Sunday, a Monday night game, and 2 teams off, you had appointment television. Now, you’ve got 2 teams off a week, 13 games on Sunday (all day, in the weeks of a London game), a Monday night game, and the EVERY SINGLE THURSDAY game(s).. it’s too much.

Sometimes less is more.

[PAR35]

to four primary factors.

I can think of 3 - what is the 4th?

1. Goodall and deflategate

2. Colon K

3. Goodall and the protesters

4. ???

[Billthedrill]

Pretty weak analysis, IMHO. Of the four causes they cite, only one of them coincides with the sudden downturn after 2015. Only one. The rest have been going on for years.

It's the protests, stupid.

[semantic]

there seems to be a penalty every other play. Then the penalty has to be reviewed . . . Plus, way too many commercial time outs.

You need to reverse the cause & effect relationship to identify the true goal. The entire objective of the NFL is to generate revenues. A sport called "American football" is the entertainment production the league hosts to sell (a) advertising space; (b) ticket/concession sales; and (c) merchandise.

Advertising fees are by far & away the biggest revenue source. The problem then becomes, how to maximize the amount of time breaking away from game time and running ads? The NFL could only have so many minutes per game for pure advertising breaks before some kind of push back resulted. The solution was to not only create more complex rules, but to also initiate in-game reviews.

Voila, approximately a 100% increase in the amount of time the league was able to break away from games and run more advertisements. Pure genius if one were honest about it. The problem became, of course, boring, interrupted play, but the league figured it could lose the 5-10% outliers (like you & myself), if they could retain the (dumb ass ie "my team" fans) base and double advertising revenues.

And it worked, until a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Hubris, the great downfall of all men and empires. The kneeling protests not only gave the small minority already abandoning the league yet another excuse, but it gave a segment of the "my team" fan base a ready reason to be offended and also join the boycott.

And that's were we are. I challenge anyone to turn on a game for 5 minutes and see if you can still stomach at least four things: clueless, slick, high concept studio commentary (as if nothing could possibly be wrong), stupid commercials, constant breaks and boring play. I claim it cannot be done - it took some very powerful, gradual brainwashing - possibly over decades in my case - to become habituated to the creep. Yet, once the habit is broken - in many cases just a few weeks - it seems inconceivable to subject one's dignity to such offensive, manipulative tripe.

[Kudsman]

Come on folks! Let’s see if we can get those losses up to a nice even $1 billion.

[Dante3]

bttt

[reed13k]

WOW - LOL... not quite that far back ... I was thinking of Mac and Tosh the Goofy Gophers. LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofy_Gophers

[sparklite2]

The more things change ...

The gophers’ mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper’s comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a “good honest laugh”.

[reed13k]

Indeed - I’ll have to look up the Opper’s work as I haven’t seen it prior.