Posted on 11/11/2020 3:23:05 PM PST by Hojczyk
There was a time when Bill Belichick and the Patriots meant big time ratings for whichever network was televising them, that time is apparently over.
The Patriots took on the New York Jets on Monday night and not only was there virtually no one in the stands to watch the game, but there was also virtually no one watching at home either.
According to Sports Media Watch:
The Patriots’ narrow Monday Night Football win over the Jets averaged 9.83 million viewers on ESPN, down 30% from last year (Cowboys-Giants: 13.98M) and the network’s least-watched Week 9 contest since 2004 (Browns-Ravens: 7.71M).
That outcome is not entirely unexpected. The Patriots are without Tom Brady and aren’t nearly as good as they once were, and the Jets are still the Jets.
However, after putting the Patriots-Jets Monday Night Football debacle together with a disastrous season for Thursday Night Football and six straight weeks of single-digit numbers for Sunday Night Football, it’s clear that the NFL is no longer dominating primetime the way it once was.
The NFL has done comparatively better on Sunday, though, overall, ratings are still down seven percent from where they were at this point last year.
Even more disturbing for the league is that the anthem protests and social justice messaging that were so rampant at the beginning of the season have largely faded away. Yet, despite that, fans who were clearly turned-off by those protests have not returned. Which, of course, begs the question: Will they ever return?
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No, Hire some decent people. People are sick of high paid thugs who whine about social justice.
Will they ever return?
I for one will not return until the NFL owns up to the reality that they pissed on America and all i stands for with the kneeling, and support of a racist organization like BLM.
RACEBALL is not very popular.
What is “Monday night football?” It is no more.
and that ass Goodall has to go.
They’ll get it when stadiums start to close!!!
BLM is also a Marxist organization. How sick that the NFL supports them.
NFL, NBA, FNC, Drudge Report...
Take a knee. Take a hike.
This former fan will NEVER go back to the NFL nor any other “professional” level sports at all. I am fully done with those overpaid snowflakes and cupcakes.
I may be motivated to watch them take up dumpster diving, though.
Covid has made all sports this year basically an exhibition season. Every champion should have an asterisk.
who won?
Not once they've gotten used to doing more important things.
Calling the Boo Hoo girl !
The Sunday afternoon Steelers-Cowboys debacle on CBS did draw just over 22.7 million in the 18-49 demographic.
The Sunday night game on NBC got 16.9 million.
Easy answer: No.
I for one will not return until the NFL owns up to the reality that they pissed on America
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What the NFL permitted, enabled and encouraged is disgraceful. They disparaged this country. They are a bunch of ingrates who don’t deserve a second chance.
ESPN and the NFL Drudged themselves.
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