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.’
The NFL is just not fun to watch since Peyton Manning retired.
LOL
Nothing like a little pain to really make you think about things you hate........like the NFL.........lol
I think if anyone would have argued with him or called him on it they’d have been 9 kinds of sorry.....LOL
#BoycottNFLMerchandise
#BoycottSportsBarsThatPlayNFLgames
#BoycottNFLadvertisers
Because they would pick the best matchup of that weekend and change the game time to Sunday night.
This has more to do with New Year’s Eve than anything. The demographic they are searching for also watches College Football for the most part, and the College Football playoff took it on the chin two years ago when they tried to run their games on NYE.
Added to that none of the potential match ups are particularly appealing and there you have it.
This is just spin from Sean Vannity to get clicks and sell ad space...
Don’t worry - I got stuck with that later -— sigh
BOOM!
I dont care what they do.
Dead. to. me.
okay, anyone still watching: defend why you want to watch country hating, rich yet claiming victim status, many players with criminal backgrounds, black racists who hate the majority white fan base?
If you are still wayching, you will watch anything.
Kneelers and Squeelers !
They have a political football.
Race baiting gone commercial but.....soon no one will be paying attention.
Boycott them all. The NBA is right with the rest.
These are comments seen on libturd sites. Please keep it adult.
Although, poorly structured sentences appear to be the rule rather than the exception in today’s “journalism”. “
Same in yesterday’s journalism.
Remember the audience they are writing for...
Not to mention why would you in future pay for supporting
“causes” and “communities” with your ticket fees instead of
the wealthy players doing so when you and your forebears have already paid out Trillions and ceded unmerited Unconstitutional AA privileges to
these ungrateful sociopaths with such little social and economic progress to show for it
Too bad it wasn't 95% empty.
If Obumer was still POTUS and the Demonrats still controlled Congress we would have NFL mandates...they’d charge you for not watching the NFL.
Off the top of my head I can't remember the NFL ever cancelling a televised game, with the possible exception of the period immediately after 9-1. They would never pass up the eyeballs and revenue. Unless they had to because there weren't expecting many eyeballs.
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