Posted on 12/11/2017 5:46:52 PM PST by blam
President Trump has lambasted the NFL more than 20 times for players’ “Total Disrespect of Our Great Country.” Ratings are down for NFL games and Trump figures it’s because some players aren’t standing, hand over heart, and mouthing the words to the national anthem.
Trump may have made some political hay out of all this, but one only has to follow the money to learn the real reason pro football ratings are down — competition from college football. The fact is, “Their product isn’t very good these days,” Nick Bogdanovich told the Las Vegas Sun. He is the chief oddsmaker for William Hill, which operates 107 sportsbooks in Nevada.
The league that used to claim any team could win on “any given Sunday” has turned into a predictable “If you have a quarterback, you have a chance. If you don’t, you don’t,” as Ben Volin wrote of the Boston Globe at the finish of last year’s regular season. As evidence, he pointed to “the four quarterbacks remaining in the playoffs — Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers, and Matt Ryan.”
Jimmy Vaccaro has been running sports books for four decades. He says, it used to be, “Nearly $4 on the NFL for every buck on a college game.” That is no longer the case. Now it is more like 60–40 with the college betting handle gaining.
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Actually, it’s both.
Bullshit! It's disrespect! Period!
And, Jared Mack, on Fox Business this morning, asked why people even "care" that these players kneel! He just wants it to go away. Idiot!
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!...FOREVER!!!
I’m really not a sports fan but I’d have to say, at least as far as the Redskins are concerned, it’s a poor product. As far as players not respecting our National Anthem, I’d have to say disrespect.
We used to watch because some of these guys were REAL athletes, and our heros. Now it’s just a bunch of mean black guys doing silly dances in the endzone and talkin’ jive. The “culture” has changed, it doesn’t represent a culture I want to be associated with so professional football no longer interests me. (Doesn’t have anything to do with the flag thing for me).
It’s both.
I am willing to bet that tonight’s ratings will be the best of the year.
Everyone in New England will be watching. Everyone else will watch to see if the Pats lose.
As a former life long Saints fan, I have put up with, stomached and otherwise endured a piss poor product for a long damn time, and was still prepared to do so until my death.
However, I will not tolerate disrespect to my country and my flag AT ALL.
Thus I have said goodbye to the detestable New Orleans Taints and the NFL, and there’s no going back.
If the league has become too quarterback-centric, then a) give the defensive backs more leeway and cut back on the pass interference calls; and b) go back to traditional blocking that is very different from today’s holding (which is basically allowed as long as the blocker’s arms do not get around the outside of the defensive man’s shoulders). I don’t know when the rules for blocking (or was it just the enforcement?) got loosened up (in the seventies?) but I think it has had a big impact. But the league wants high scores which you can only get if the quarterbacks have enough time.
It is both. I haven't totally boycotted the NFL, but every time I tune in, the level of play is just awful. I watch maybe 10% of what I watched when I was a kid.
Let’s see them disrespect openly and stop lying about this being about black being killed by police
The NFL’s problem is over-saturation and over-pricing.
“Bullshit! It’s disrespect! Period!”
Exactamundo. The doofus that wrote this tripe doesn’t understand that a big part of the any product is the behavior and attitude of the people selling you the product.
If Walmart clerks were to spit in the eyes of their customers, it would have the same exact reaction that the NFL is having, even if the actual merchandise remained the same.
They are confused (or lying). Former NFL fans now watch college football, and betting has shifted with their viewing; the shocking rudeness of protesting our anthem is a major reason why they have shifted to college, not just a coincidence.
Boy, I don't know what you're looking at, but I see a level of physical capability, in strength and in speed, far beyond what had been familiar to me. Perhaps what you are reacting to is "stalemate". Everybody is so good, nobody can win ... that sort of thing.
Exactly.
On those rare occasions I do watch sports on TV, I am not looking to watch some smug Leftwing political crap. Nor would I even want to watch political statements of any kind, even one’s I agree with...at those times I just want to watch sports and forget about that kind of thing for a while. Thus, none of the rare occasions will I ever be watching the NFL or even ESPN....unless at some future time they stop mixing that kind of crap into their product.
The product is getting lamer, it’s true, but to act like the disrespect isn’t having an impact is ludicrous.
Meh.
A bunch of thugs playing a kids game.
One can hear about it later, if one is terminally bored.
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