Shocker: NFL Ratings Tank (Politics and Greed are ruining America's Game)

[SheriffJoe]

Shocker: NFL Ratings Tank

"The NFL saw a reduction in most key apples-to-apples comparisons."

News flash: everyday Americans really don't like it when overpaid celebrities get up on their soapbox and lecture them about how to live their lives. It's no wonder then that the NFL ratings have dropped ever since the 49ers' backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to protest the national anthem in the name of Black Lives Matter.

From NBC Sports:

With the dust settled on Week One, the NFL saw a reduction in most key apples-to-apples comparisons from 2015 to 2016.
Via Forbes, the Thursday night opener between the Panthers and Broncosdrew 25.2 million, down eight percent from 2015 (Steelers-Patriots) and six percent from 2014 (Packers-Seahawks).

Also, Sunday night’s game between the Patriots and Cardinals generated an audience of 23.1 million. Despite the game being decided at the last second, the audience fell by 14 percent, in comparison to last year’s Giants-Cowboys Sunday night opener.

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The expression "Duh!" comes to mind with this sort of revelation, considering the average football viewers are middle-Americans of all colors who resent Colin Kaepernick's accusation that this country oppresses people of color.

Unfortunately, some athletes haven't gotten the memo that their fans really don't like it when being spit upon by millionaires who play with balls for a living (no innuendo intended). According to Victor Oladipo of the Oklahoma City Thunder, now NBA players may protest the anthem as well.

 

[SheriffJoe]

- liberal politics

- stupid "concussion protocols" and rule changes (overall pussification of the game)

- too many ads and overall "corporatization" of the game

Most people just want to enjoy good ol' fashioned football, but modern culture, ulterior agendas and greed are ruining America's Game. Maybe for good.

 

[ML Dog]

- liberal politics

- stupid "concussion protocols" and rule changes (overall pussification of the game)

- too many ads and overall "corporatization" of the game

Most people just want to enjoy good ol' fashioned football, but modern culture, ulterior agendas and greed are ruining America's Game. Maybe for good.

And not just "too many" but they are actually so Base, so unintelligent and annoying that the ads are Psychologically Terrorizing.

Like Buster said in the other thread "NFL Redzone" is a totally Necessary Out. The ads are literally unwatchable and there are 100 or more every single game, a percentage of those repeated over and over and over like the horrific Direct TV Spots, GEICO, Progressive Insurance and Sonic.

I seriously wanna understand why Ad People have to make commercials that are so bad.

 

[tatehill2000]

Lol. On the cruise ship were on, their links are ONLY redzone links. Lololol..

 

[KingEleven]

I do not believe for a second that ratings are down because Kap kneels during the anthem. While I think he is a f'in clown, he will not prevent me from watching a game I love. That being said, I do miss football from the '80's and 90's

 

[vitterd]

I do not believe for a second that ratings are down because Kap kneels during the anthem. While I think he is a f'in clown, he will not prevent me from watching a game I love. That being said, I do miss football from the '80's and 90's

Of course not.....that's just Joe trying to blame liberals for everything. It's a disease for him. The NFL product has sucked for years

 

[beefdiesel]

All the commercials, I'm as hardcore as anyone about football, I come in 30 minutes after the game starts to fast forward the commercials

 

[PatsFanatic]

All the commercials, I'm as hardcore as anyone about football, I come in 30 minutes after the game starts to fast forward the commercials

That would only get you thru the first QTR before you caught up to real time @)

 

[SheriffJoe]

I do not believe for a second that ratings are down because Kap kneels during the anthem. While I think he is a f'in clown, he will not prevent me from watching a game I love. That being said, I do miss football from the '80's and 90's

It's all the recent liberal political crap infecting the game in general. For many, the Kap clown show and subsequent juvenile 'protests' were the final straw. What are these idiots protesting again? Social justice? America-haters can shun the National Anthem and wear "pig socks" without consequences but when Dallas Cowboys want decals on their helmets honoring the police, well, that's verboten. Okay, NFL...okay.

Like I said, most people just wanna forget about their lives (AND POLITICS!!) and watch football. This may shock all the pundits and 'experts' but fans couldn't care less about the politics of the game. They don't care if players are taking PEDs (remember how popular baseball became during the Sammy and McGuire home run chase?), they don't care if a spoiled athlete fully aware of his occupational hazards gets his bell rung every now and then, and they are rather turned off about the ridiculous escalating salaries and henceforth uber-commercialization to pay for all the distracting nonsense of America's Game.

Then don't watch, Joe!

Exactly.

Ratings are down and will continue to plummet for these reasons and more.

A few years back, I was reading articles at liberal rags like the The Nation (don't ask me why) why NFL football is a goner within 20-30 years. You laugh, as I did back then, but now I'm starting to believe them.

It makes sense. Football is the ultimate expression of machismo in American culture. Bigger, stronger, and faster is the goal. Gladiators armed with nothing but their bodies fly around the field at dangerous speeds attempting to smash their opponents into submission, how 'mean' and so not... 'progressive'.

Whether people want to admit this or not, football represents pretty much everything modern liberal culture hates, and the current 'evolution' (feminization) of football reflects this.

That sound you're hearing is Vince Lombardi spinning in his grave.

 

[KennyB]

Don't discount the ingrates not kneeling for the anthem. My NFL viewership has dropped by more than 50% and my interest is very take it or leave it now. I know I am not the only decent person who feels this way. Fuck the Dolphins. I hope they go 0-16.

 

[doubledeuce22]

Liberals are the reason nfl ratings are down. Some of guys are nuts.

 

[vitterd]

Liberals are the reason nfl ratings are down. Some of guys are nuts.

I sometimes don't believe these guys are real people. Just Internet agitators trying to be funny. There is no chance that anyone can actually think that way......can they?

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Liberals are the reason for blacks behaving badly. This sort of behavior would have been nipped in the bud before everyone got all into political correctness and the myth that we are all created equal.

 

[vitterd]

Liberals are the reason for blacks behaving badly. This sort of behavior would have been nipped in the bud before everyone got all into political correctness and the myth that we are all created equal.

Hopefully you violate your parole soon. Go back where you should be.

 

[michael777]

Liberals are the reason for blacks behaving badly. This sort of behavior would have been nipped in the bud before everyone got all into political correctness and the myth that we are all created equal.

I agree 100% It is all so sad what liberalism has done to this once great country

 

[tatehill2000]

I agree 100% It is all so sad what liberalism has done to this once great country

Ugh....
We are all equal.. however life is tough. For everyone... so get over it.... liberals are the death of the country.. rational thought is the savior!!

 

[doubledeuce22]

Liberals are the reason for blacks behaving badly. This sort of behavior would have been nipped in the bud before everyone got all into political correctness and the myth that we are all created equal.

A well thought out, reasonable take :think2:

 

[doubledeuce22]

I sometimes don't believe these guys are real people. Just Internet agitators trying to be funny. There is no chance that anyone can actually think that way......can they?

Not only do they think it, they believe it.

 

[REDEYE]

its not that these games are flooded with non stop commercials , its also the brainwashing that the media is pushing on us with this PC nonsense.. I boycott products when a black male and white female are selling it , which seems to be every other advertisement ....

 

[SheriffJoe]

Not only do they think it, they believe it.

Aww, so cute. You must be a liberal.

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(WWJ) James Olson, a Sports Illustrated subscriber since fourth grade, watches action-packed NFL games on TV to escape from the endless round of political bickering playing out on other channels.

But with more national anthem protests cropping up, he feels like politics has taken over his favorite sport, too. So he’s tuning out.

“I want to say to these guys ‘If you weren’t playing in the NFL, you would be working at McDonalds. I think people have had it,” said, Olson, a Birmingham, Mich., resident.

He’s not alone.

The NFL opener, a Super Bowl rematch between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, brought 25.2 million viewers — which is an astonishing number of eyeballs.

“For comparison, The Walking Dead averages around 14 million live viewers as TV’s most-watched show,” Forbes wrote.

But that’s down 8 percent from 2015 and 6 percent from 2014. Sunday’s numbers, Forbes added, were down 13 percent from last year.

“This also marked the lowest overnight season-opening rating in seven years,” Forbes found.

In a hot and heavy political season with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton lobbing verbal bombs at each other seemingly all day, every day, while the media breathlessly follows along, it’s just too much, Olson said.

“Sports used to not be a stage for this, and now it is, so I’m turning it off,” he said. “I refused to watch the Chicago-Philadelphia game because they were going to protest …You start to figure out you can get along without football, there are other things out there I can do.”

He spent his Sunday, instead, watching part of a soccer game, spending time outside, and then working out.

The #boycottNFL hashtag on Twitter has hundreds of participants who are urging others to send a message to NFL owners and Roger Goodell by sitting out games, turning off the TV and refusing to buy merchandise.
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</twitterwidget>“We’re also pissed that the owners aren’t doing anything, that the coaches aren’t doing anything and the coaches aren’t doing anything,” Olson said. “You can do this on our own time. Rent a stage somewhere and see if you can get a crowd of 70,000 people.”

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