The National Football League's popularity plunged dismally this month after players, coaches, and owners across the league protested the national anthem.
The NFL is now the least popular among top professional or college sports.
Try being a Browns fan. I gave up my season tickets 2 years ago, I couldn't give them away. I quit watching last year after all this taking a knee started I get enough political crap other places.
The article is much ado about nothing. NFL ratings have been declining for over a year, long before Kaepernick's protest spread to other players. The idea that viewers of other teams stopped watching their home team because Colin Kaepernick was protesting is simply ridiculous. As this article relates, people are dropping cable tv , and if they dont get the games they want through other means they go watch at sports bars and restaurants, where business is booming. There is a large bar in my neighborhood that has a 15 x 9 foot long tv set up where they show the big games. The place is huge, and it is usually packed. The bars and restaurants are not included in the ratings.
The reason attendance is down is many people are realizing that it is just as much fun or more to watch the games on large screen tvs ,with much better viewing angles, than it is to be at the game.
Ok, so you do not attribute the current NFL free fall to this national anthem crap? I'm sure that's why Jerry Jones told his team they will stand for the anthem, or sit for the game, right?
I think it's the other way around....the NFL generated over 14 billion in revenue this year...do you actually think they made that money because fans wanted to see the owner of the team on the field every week or buy the general manager's jersey?
No, Football League made a lot of money because fans like football and advertisers like places there are lots of people to see their ads. Fans don't like protests and the cash from all sources is going down.
And Jerry Jones and Goodell don't sell many jerseys
That's my thing.. The owners and the league could have stopped this, they didn't, now they deserve everything their lousy management brought upon them.
because fans like football and advertisers like places there are lots of people to see their ads.
But yet despite a drop in ratings NFL TV ads still generated a record setting 3.5 billion in revenue for TV broadcasters last season.....point blank the fans are still there and as long as the networks are there to make profits, they are not going anywhere!
Fans don't like protests and the cash from all sources is going down.
Where? Like I said NFL TV ads generated record profits last year DESPITE the protests and it's tracking to do the same thing this year
counting practice squad there are about 2,116 positions in NFL, before cuts there were almost 3,000 players. Cut all those who won't stand, there are plenty to take their place.
Ok, so after the last two weeks, the NFL has taken a hell of a hit...
Will management put an end to the protests?
I would have thought so, but.... who knows..
I was a Vikings fan, so it is very easy for me to give up the NFL.
Try being a Browns fan. I gave up my season tickets 2 years ago, I couldn't give them away. I quit watching last year after all this taking a knee started I get enough political crap other places.
After they revealed that they can't handle something somebody says, it's no wonder interest has dropped.
Buy a Villanueva jersey, I did and plan on wearing it proudly even though I'm a sad assed Lions fan
Football League no longer deserves to have National in it's name
The article is much ado about nothing. NFL ratings have been declining for over a year, long before Kaepernick's protest spread to other players. The idea that viewers of other teams stopped watching their home team because Colin Kaepernick was protesting is simply ridiculous. As this article relates, people are dropping cable tv , and if they dont get the games they want through other means they go watch at sports bars and restaurants, where business is booming. There is a large bar in my neighborhood that has a 15 x 9 foot long tv set up where they show the big games. The place is huge, and it is usually packed. The bars and restaurants are not included in the ratings.
The reason attendance is down is many people are realizing that it is just as much fun or more to watch the games on large screen tvs ,with much better viewing angles, than it is to be at the game.
Ok, so you do not attribute the current NFL free fall to this national anthem crap? I'm sure that's why Jerry Jones told his team they will stand for the anthem, or sit for the game, right?
players put their knee on the neck of the goose that laid golden eggs
I think it's the other way around....the NFL generated over 14 billion in revenue this year...do you actually think they made that money because fans wanted to see the owner of the team on the field every week or buy the general manager's jersey?
Gonna need to see a link.
No, Football League made a lot of money because fans like football and advertisers like places there are lots of people to see their ads. Fans don't like protests and the cash from all sources is going down.
And Jerry Jones and Goodell don't sell many jerseys
and players caused problem to start with and owners and Goodell did not stop it, They were too dumb to know when they had it made
That's my thing.. The owners and the league could have stopped this, they didn't, now they deserve everything their lousy management brought upon them.
But yet despite a drop in ratings NFL TV ads still generated a record setting 3.5 billion in revenue for TV broadcasters last season.....point blank the fans are still there and as long as the networks are there to make profits, they are not going anywhere!
Where? Like I said NFL TV ads generated record profits last year DESPITE the protests and it's tracking to do the same thing this year
Ads for this year are already priced, when they try to sell ads next year is when it will hurt
Once again.....same thing was said LAST YEAR
It's amusing watching people defend plummeting ratings as no big deal.
Talk to someone who sells ad time for a network for a living and tell them that. I do, and believe me, that's not their response.
counting practice squad there are about 2,116 positions in NFL, before cuts there were almost 3,000 players. Cut all those who won't stand, there are plenty to take their place.