I bet that ratings continue to slide. Everyone that I speak with are fed up with this bullshit. My nfl watching is down about 75% and my interest continues to drop. If this bs continues, I will completely stop watching and I am sure that many decent Americans agree with me.
Our liberal posters who praise these idiots for kneeling over cries of false oppression must not be reading all of the ratings. Every single article, including forbes all say that ratings are tanking and they are talking about people boycotting.
NFL finally paying for its double standards and hypocrisy
By Pat Imig
There are a number of factors turning people away, not the least of which is Time magazine's cover of Colin Kaepernick.
An independent survey of 1,128 Americans conducted after Week 1 showed 44 percent of respondents would shut off the NFL entirely if national anthem protests continued.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Week 2 protests were largely ignored by the network broadcasts. And maybe that's how it should be when you consider that of the nearly 1,700 players in the NFL, fewer than 60 have protested. In other words, fewer than 4 percent of all players.
Freedom-of-expression double standards
Commissioner Roger Goodell took a neutral stance on the player protests, offering support for their right to express their opinions. Make no mistake about the fact that on the surface, Goodell loves this mainstream attention.
If the NFL can be a beacon of social awareness and act as an agent of change, all the better. That will change, of course, if advertisers see it differently.
It's quite hypocritical that Goodell allows players to protest during the national anthem. After all, he runs a league that assessed a 15-yard penalty on Packers linebacker Nick Perry in Week 3 for making a throat-slash gesture.
It's the same league that penalized Dolphins receiver Jarvis Landry for celebrating a touchdown in Week 3 by hugging the goal post like Mario, Luigi and Antonio Brown.
Guess whose celebration is on NFL.com. Yep, Jarvis Landry's. The same celebration that was penalized.
"That's illegal, Jarvis! But if you want to protest during the national anthem, go right ahead. We're the League of Change. In the meantime, we're gonna celebrate our discipline over you right now on NFL.com."
On a day (Sunday) when Major League Baseball mourned the passing of one of its brightest stars, with many players carrying tributes to Jose Fernandez on their caps and shoes, I couldn't help but think that the NFL would fine and punish those players if it governed over them.
This is the same league, after all, that fined DeAngelo Williams for wearing the words “Find A Cure" during Breast Cancer Awareness month, in honor of his mother who died of the disease.
But, hey, protest during the national anthem.
We want you to use your voice and express yourself.
Click Here for Full Article, contains a lot more insightful and sharp commentary.
By Pat Imig
There are a number of factors turning people away, not the least of which is Time magazine's cover of Colin Kaepernick.
An independent survey of 1,128 Americans conducted after Week 1 showed 44 percent of respondents would shut off the NFL entirely if national anthem protests continued.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Week 2 protests were largely ignored by the network broadcasts. And maybe that's how it should be when you consider that of the nearly 1,700 players in the NFL, fewer than 60 have protested. In other words, fewer than 4 percent of all players.
Freedom-of-expression double standards
Commissioner Roger Goodell took a neutral stance on the player protests, offering support for their right to express their opinions. Make no mistake about the fact that on the surface, Goodell loves this mainstream attention.
If the NFL can be a beacon of social awareness and act as an agent of change, all the better. That will change, of course, if advertisers see it differently.
It's quite hypocritical that Goodell allows players to protest during the national anthem. After all, he runs a league that assessed a 15-yard penalty on Packers linebacker Nick Perry in Week 3 for making a throat-slash gesture.
It's the same league that penalized Dolphins receiver Jarvis Landry for celebrating a touchdown in Week 3 by hugging the goal post like Mario, Luigi and Antonio Brown.
Guess whose celebration is on NFL.com. Yep, Jarvis Landry's. The same celebration that was penalized.
"That's illegal, Jarvis! But if you want to protest during the national anthem, go right ahead. We're the League of Change. In the meantime, we're gonna celebrate our discipline over you right now on NFL.com."
On a day (Sunday) when Major League Baseball mourned the passing of one of its brightest stars, with many players carrying tributes to Jose Fernandez on their caps and shoes, I couldn't help but think that the NFL would fine and punish those players if it governed over them.
This is the same league, after all, that fined DeAngelo Williams for wearing the words “Find A Cure" during Breast Cancer Awareness month, in honor of his mother who died of the disease.
But, hey, protest during the national anthem.
We want you to use your voice and express yourself.
Click Here for Full Article, contains a lot more insightful and sharp commentary.
"Commissioner Roger Goodell took a neutral stance on the player protests, offering support for their right to express their opinions."
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Dolphins fine and suspend DB Don Jones for anti-Michael Sam tweet
Dolphins defensive back Don Jones isn't allowed to attend any team activities until he completes educational training. Jones sent out a tweet critical of Michael Sam during the draft on Saturday.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-fine-and-suspend-db-don-jones-for-anti-michael-sam-tweet/
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For many conservative football fans, the NFL had this coming...
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Dolphins fine and suspend DB Don Jones for anti-Michael Sam tweet
Dolphins defensive back Don Jones isn't allowed to attend any team activities until he completes educational training. Jones sent out a tweet critical of Michael Sam during the draft on Saturday.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-fine-and-suspend-db-don-jones-for-anti-michael-sam-tweet/
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For many conservative football fans, the NFL had this coming...
The Guesser @)
NFL Boycotts, Kaepernick Backlash Becoming Major Factor As NFL Ratings Drop Yet Again In Week 4
In response to my thoughts on the NFL’s weaker on-field product leading to a three-week decline in viewership, I received nearly a hundred emails from American viewers, some of which have previously served in the military. Most of them told me in no uncertain terms that they had stopped watching the NFL due to the controversy surrounding Kaepernick and other players across the NFL protesting the national anthem by sitting, kneeling, or demonstrating in other ways. Many of these viewers have similarly exercised their rights as Americans by taking their viewership elsewhere or simply turning off the TV.
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Will Goodell (he represents the Peter Principle as well as anyone ever has) be the commissioner who presides over the downfall of the NFL? You know, something that can’t go on forever will eventually stop and the NFL has no claim to being the most popular sport in America in say, 2022.
I really think someone like David Stern would have been smart enough to nip this in the bud. The NFL has bizarrely sat back and pretended Kap and these other buffoons have the “right” to do this, they do not (employers can prohibit employees from engaging in speech during work time that is not work-related) and actually have no standing to sue if they got fined for kneeling during the Anthem.
This ratings decline couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
In response to my thoughts on the NFL’s weaker on-field product leading to a three-week decline in viewership, I received nearly a hundred emails from American viewers, some of which have previously served in the military. Most of them told me in no uncertain terms that they had stopped watching the NFL due to the controversy surrounding Kaepernick and other players across the NFL protesting the national anthem by sitting, kneeling, or demonstrating in other ways. Many of these viewers have similarly exercised their rights as Americans by taking their viewership elsewhere or simply turning off the TV.
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Will Goodell (he represents the Peter Principle as well as anyone ever has) be the commissioner who presides over the downfall of the NFL? You know, something that can’t go on forever will eventually stop and the NFL has no claim to being the most popular sport in America in say, 2022.
I really think someone like David Stern would have been smart enough to nip this in the bud. The NFL has bizarrely sat back and pretended Kap and these other buffoons have the “right” to do this, they do not (employers can prohibit employees from engaging in speech during work time that is not work-related) and actually have no standing to sue if they got fined for kneeling during the Anthem.
This ratings decline couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
You are quite literally wrong about everything. Every topic you make a post on, you are on the opposite side of reality.
First:
The four major NFL broadcast networks – CBS, FOX, NBC, and ESPN – will pay about $5 billion per year for rights to broadcast games through 2021, yet sources told The Sporting News that those networks are actually starting to give some money back to advertisers with what are commonly known as “make-good” deals.
Then:
[FONT="]TV ratings for "Sunday Night Football" and "Monday Night Football" are off by a whopping 16 to 20 percent so far this season, Nielsen told Sporting News on Monday. [/FONT]
No wonder you ran from this thread.
[h=1]NFL's 'Monday Night Football' Sets Record Low In Ratings For ESPN[/h]
ESPN's 6.5 overnight for Buccaneers-Panthers last night is network's lowest Week 5 "MNF" rating since acquiring rights prior to 2006 season
If guesser (and the other 2 stooges) makes another post on this topic, the league may very well fold.
ESPN's 6.5 overnight for Buccaneers-Panthers last night is network's lowest Week 5 "MNF" rating since acquiring rights prior to 2006 season
If guesser (and the other 2 stooges) makes another post on this topic, the league may very well fold.
[h=1]‘Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Fall To 5-Year Low [/h]
No wonder why you ran from this thread. I've never seen someone be more wrong about things than you are. Yet bizarrely, you keep coming back to this forum.
