Posted on 10/16/2017 12:40:29 PM PDT by impetrio1
You've probably heard many misinformed reasons online why the NFL owners are squishy on allowing players to protest during the playing of our national anthem. Aside from the unpredictable, mediocre play coming from players who have yet one more unrelated distraction occupying valuable time during the week all the way up to kickoff, it comes down to two reasons....
(Excerpt) Read more at blackandblondemedia.com ...
Yeah, but wouldn’t it be neat to fill the stands with their bros in the hood? Free tickets for the dindus guarantees much fun to watch at home and then who needs a football field?
They make more money from television. Something like 6 billion last year, I believe, which all the teams split equally (which is how some teams can survive disastrous season after disastrous season).
So, the bottom line is this - every viewer that boycotts the NFL, and every person that writes a letter to an NFL advertiser, affects the NFL's bottom line. If not this year - maybe they have already gotten their money from the advertisers and licensed vendors - then it will next year, or the year after. At some point they will realize they are whistling past the graveyard and end this nonsense. May already be too late for them.
There was once a tried and true method in professional sports regarding players who got too full of themselves. In baseball, pitchers throw AT the player. In football, coverage/blocking is “mis-read” and passes are under-run/dropped.
All it takes is for a large number of patriotic players, regardless of color, to:
a). Tell the coach you aren’t willing to play alongside such protestors. Ask him to bench you.
b). Contract a bout of “food poisoning” on Saturday evening. Ipecac is a good stage prop.
c). Purposefully fail a concussion test early in the game.
or,
d). Retire early (and make a comeback)
Soon enough, the protesting players will be in a meaningful game alongside the practice squad.
Buy I’m betting they’ll have a little problem the next time they ask for a new stadium with OUR TAX DOLLARS. :-) Enjoy it while you’ve got it NFL, you won’t have it for long.
Good advice, especially when you realize that some teams are simply “loss-leaders” for the owners larger business. The Detroit Lions come to mind.
Madame Ford doesn’t care about wins-and-losses. As long as the Ford name is associated with the team, they’ll keep playing in Ford Field.
BTW, did you know that the Ford F150 is the best selling pick-up in North America?
Unfortunately declining TV ratings won’t really hurt the NFL until 2021 or so...the NFL has locked in TV contracts with CBS, Fox, and NBC until 2022. Declining ratings hurt the networks in the shorter term. Hopefully there are some “performance clauses” in the contracts that allow an out due to declining ratings?? Would have to research that more.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/7353238/nfl-re-ups-tv-pacts-expand-thursday-schedule
They will.
Not a very good article. The author missses the point: season ticket sales are only part of the revenue stream. Yeah, season tickets are already sold. The money is in the TV revenues, the gear, etc. And thugball is taking a hit. It also ignores the role of debt financing which exacerbates revenue declines.
This whole dustup gives a lot of so-so fans the cover to stop watching something that already bores them.
“Yeah, like a Craigslist ad. “Yo, I got the sh8ts. NFL tix fo sho discount yo. Trip out whitey and shows up dis Sundayyey wid yo black power threads. Kneel and show da whiteboy beside yo whos da man “
And then Vegas could start a whole new line of betting.
Rapes
Beatdowns
Knifings
Murders
All by quarter, half and game.
And instead of YouTube clips of Jets fans tossing vending machines down from the upper tiers we will be engrossed by clips of homies tossing crackahs over the edge.
So much positive diversity the stadium won’t be able to contain it.
Season tickets are hardly where their money is generated. Though folks staying at home instead of going to the game are hurting the vendors, which in turn also detracts from the bottom line. However, the pain is yet to come as people turn away from the game of professional football.
And the 10 year-old kids are not into the NFL, and they will not be replacing the fans who are dying off.
Yep, bring soccer hooliganism to the NFL.
and all the team trademarked tees/hoodies/blah blah blah ... when those have to be discounted at a loss, it will have an effect. NO one with half a brain cell thought they’d feel the pinch overnight. Who should be REALLY angry with the current crop of spoiled brat is the upcoming crop of spoiled brats now playing in college (and some high school) whose salaries will be negatively impacted.
The thing is that after sports season ends, you look back and it is all a nothing burger. Nothing.
You realize you have not grown. You learn zero new ideas but still want your opinion respected. Your family isn’t really tighter. The opportunity cost, you lost what football substituted.
Guru Tony Robbins made a great point, that if you repeat the same stuff too much, YOU AIN’T GROWIN!
With FreeRepublic, you do learn & grow.
Your children should become accountants. Figure that in one generation you could steal the millions of dollars from just one of these dumb footballers.
Correct. If ever there was a fool and his money, it's a professional kneelballer.
It truly is. I know people in that situation. Their entire lives revolve around their ballclubs. I'm not exaggerating. These are people who run fantasy football teams and pull all-nighters during the NFL draft like they were Bill Belichick in real life.
It is up to the casual fans to make the NFL owners feel the pain and there are a lot of us. I've always been a casual fan and so it was easy for me to give it up entirely.
The NFL loses at concessions also. And licensed mdse?
Good points!
The NFL is losing its war with America, daily!
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