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GAME OVER: NFL CANCELS ‘Sunday Night Football’ on New Year's Eve
Hannity.com ^ | 27 Dec 17 | Hannity.com Staff

Posted on 12/27/2017 9:05:43 AM PST by xzins

The embattled National Football League announced its decision to cancel this week’s edition of ‘Sunday Night Football’ on Tuesday; hoping to avoid a ratings bloodbath as a less-than-stellar line-up and New Year’s Eve festivities would have caused the NFL to reach embarrassing new lows.

The league opted to call-off the game before announcing which teams were scheduled to compete, adding the match-up wouldn’t have playoff implications and would likely cost the already troubled organization millions of dollars.

“We felt that both from a competitive standpoint and from a fan perspective, the most fair thing to do is to schedule all Week 17 games in either the 1 p.m. or 4:25 p.m. windows,” said a spokesperson for the NFL.

The National Football League is struggling to wrap up its disastrous 2017 season, with millions of fans tuning out or staying home following months of player protests.

Industry insiders predict the demonstrations have cost the NFL over $500 million.

President Trump thrust the issue into the national spotlight earlier this year, calling for a national boycott of the NFL until officials and owners clamp-down on their athletes “taking a knee” during the performance of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthem; childrensgame; commieball; football; goodell; humor; newyearseve; nfl; nflratings; sports; sundaynightfootball; ticktock
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To: metmom

I’ve been to the falls in early October, but even then I worried. I know how to drive in snow, but I’d just as soon not.


161 posted on 12/27/2017 11:06:33 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: xzins
* – Sunday night games in Weeks 5-16 subject to change; Week 17 game TBD

TBD?

Tampa Bay - Detroit?

162 posted on 12/27/2017 11:06:53 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: Cowboy Bob

You nailed it. Lol


163 posted on 12/27/2017 11:07:26 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Tennessee Conservative

[but they have the best chicken salad sandwiches in the world]

Awesome. There was a place I went to about a dozen years ago - fantastic turkey / bacon sandwich. I went back for a 2nd one - took them 45 minutes to make it. Perhaps it was somebody new that day.


164 posted on 12/27/2017 11:08:38 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Joe Dallas
The NFL exists to sell beer, trucks, securities and ED medication and selling that ad time has not been difficult.

Not so much ED medication, as of this year. Both Viagra and Cialis lost their patent protection earlier this year. As a consequence, the manufacturers of both (Pfizer and Lilly, respectively), knowing that continuing to advertise the two drugs can only benefit manufacturers of generic competitors and not themselves, announced that starting in 2017, they would no longer advertise on NFL broadcasts.

This also explains the financial shortfall that has befallen the NFL...two of their marquis sponsors, Pfizer and Lilly, are no longer "in the fold."
165 posted on 12/27/2017 11:12:31 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: sparklite2

I know. It’s a losing battle.


166 posted on 12/27/2017 11:13:59 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: xzins

Is less money lost money?


When Robert Reich said that cutting the rate of increase
in funding for a program was a cut in funding, we had a good laugh.


167 posted on 12/27/2017 11:14:09 AM PST by sparklite2 (Read the Sparklite Times -- neither here nor there but mostly there.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

No more Viagra ads—great news for the new year!


168 posted on 12/27/2017 11:18:40 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: SaveFerris

It’s usually the little places way off the main road that have the best food and atmosphere. If you saw this place and you were from out of town, no way you would go in. LOL We have been going there for close to 40 years but never see anybody but locals there. The service is always perfect and the food is always good and prompt. It’s our place to go when we don’t want to dress up and we want good southern hometown charm. :-) You know it’s good when all the local cops go there at lunch. Having a room full of LEO’s doesn’t slow down business at all either.


169 posted on 12/27/2017 11:18:51 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: sparklite2

The argument that “I got 150 bucks this year and I’m expecting 175 next year but you’re only giving me 160” less than you were hoping to get extra is a cut.

But, if last year you got 150 and this year only got 140, then there was a cut.


170 posted on 12/27/2017 11:21:16 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: xzins

BOOM! And so it begins.


171 posted on 12/27/2017 11:21:17 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: Tennessee Conservative

Nice. Know a lady that runs a Mongolian BBQ. Been going there for 20 years. Rare when it’s affordable these days.

Nonetheless, doesn’t look like much from the outside. I went there for a going-away party with my clients for the manager. This guy was working in the World Trade Center in 2001. His contract ended about two weeks before the terrorist attacks and he was back in the Midwest when it all went down.


172 posted on 12/27/2017 11:23:26 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: xzins

The argument that “I got 150 bucks this year and I’m expecting 175 next year but you’re only giving me 160” less than you were hoping to get extra is a cut.


Did you leave out a “not” somewhere?


173 posted on 12/27/2017 11:23:48 AM PST by sparklite2 (Read the Sparklite Times -- neither here nor there but mostly there.)
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To: xzins

I hated these a holes before the pulled this kneeling crap.
Rather read a book or watch a movie
Nothing but bread and circus routine to distract us from what’s really happening around us.
Some people are easily entertained


174 posted on 12/27/2017 11:24:25 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: xzins

My plan not to watch Sunday Night Football has not been cancelled.


175 posted on 12/27/2017 11:25:11 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: xzins

Good and good riddance to bad rubbish.


176 posted on 12/27/2017 11:25:59 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: sparklite2

That was not the most understandable writing I’ve ever done. There are some grammar police on this thread already. Maybe they’ll straighten me out. :>)

Basically, if you got 150 in 2017 and were told your were getting 175 in 2018, but then that was revised to 160 does not mean you have taken a cut. You’ve actually had a 10 dollar increase. But the left calls it a cut.

And I’m not even sure if that paragraph is clear. Lol. Send me back to writing class.....


177 posted on 12/27/2017 11:28:37 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Dawgreg

Your husband is showing leadership—from a hospital bed.

Outstanding!

(I am sure the nurses talk about it with their co-workers and friends—and the message gets out there just a little more...)


178 posted on 12/27/2017 11:29:24 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: xzins

I gotcha. That’s what my Robert Reich comment said, too.
We are of the same mind.


179 posted on 12/27/2017 11:31:33 AM PST by sparklite2 (Read the Sparklite Times -- neither here nor there but mostly there.)
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To: Keyhopper

The commercials, the displays in stores, it was all too much.

As you say, bread and circuses; almost a religion for some.

All the while 1/2 of the country sat back and thought all was fine and dandy under the Kenyan Usurper as he worked to trash the nation.


180 posted on 12/27/2017 11:31:36 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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