Posted on 09/23/2016 6:48:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Primetime ratings for the opening weekend of the 2016 NFL season were not kind. Not only were they down across almost the entire board, Monday Night Football‘s numbers showed signs that last season’s slide might be continuing.
MNF averaged an 8.1 rating for the 2015 season while garnering an average viewership of 12.9 million, down two percent and three percent, respectively. In Week 1 of the 2016 season, the early game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins was the least watched MNF game since 2012 (7.7 rating, 13.0 million viewers), while the San Francisco 49ers – Los Angeles Rams follow-up was the least watched since 2008 (6.2 rating, 10.3 million viewers). Week 2’s showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears generated an 8.3 rating, which is off 11 percent from last year’s second-week match-up and is the lowest since “at least ’09, and likely further back.”
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I regret now, not watching MNF in the past, so I could play some part in the downturn of popularity now.
The NFL deserves to be broken. Come the day when the coach says, “Sorry fellas. We’re out of business. And take your ‘tudes with ya’.”
There’s always hockey...it’s a hybrid of your favorites (football and boxing).
I like golf because I play golf. I like women’s golf because I play like a woman.
Exactly.
Sadly most of the tickets for the season have already been sold.
Don't know how the TV money is distributed .
Well, they started the BLM protest crap last season with one of the teams coming out doing a "Hands-up-don't-shoot" protest. Folks are sick of it.
Boring isn’t the word. It was a major embarrassment. Have seen better effort by the kids in our neighborhood that play pee wee football. We are die hard Texan fans but switched over to ION and watched Blue Bloods mid-way through the first quarter.
I WISH i liked another mainstream sport. But I dont.
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Baseball is becoming less watchable too. To wit:
* Its increasingly annoying with all the distracting bling the overpaid players wear.
* There are agonizingly long intervals between pitches (whatever happened to the pitch clock?).
* It seems that every year there are fewer American born players in the league.
* The players are traded so frequently its difficult to associate them with any particular team.
With Thursday nights and Sunday nights, the demand for football is exceeded by the supply.
And we’re supposed to be surprised and shocked? In recent years, the NFL has embraced every liberal, anti-American cause in existence and, like the NBA, has done a masterful job concealing, rationalizing and, for the most part, ignoring the criminal behavior of its players. This most recent - and very public - behavior by Kaepernick and his fellow travelers was just the final straw for many NFL fans and I count myself among them.
Looking forward to seeing the ratings for last night’s game. In my opinion, the NFL has shot itself in the foot with their support and/or refusal to support certain causes. Making a sporting event political is a big mistake.
Like it did in Pittsburgh? But then the state and the city did it anyway and levied a tax to pay for it.
http://watchdog.org/366/paindy-1-billion-and-counting-for-states-taxpayer-funded-stadiums/
The Thursday night games were just another avenue for ratings and additional revenues but what you have is just too much NFL football.
When I was growing up in the 1960’s it Sunday only, and for the most part they were afternoon games, not much night football. Then Monday night football came and it exploded, but still you had only Sunday's and the Monday game.
Now you just about 24/7 NFL of some sort from cable to apps for your phone. So I am not surprised that ratings may start trending down, the National Anthem controversy just adds to this.
If your team is playing on MNF why should the rest of the country care. Brady vs Manning-ok. Manning be gone. Brady suspended.
The NFL has slit its own throat....what idiots!!!
Not only that, but in order to pass, a bond referendum must be approved with more than a majority of the vote (it's either 60% or two-thirds; I'm not sure which).
I forget about it most weeks, especially now that it isn’t on ABC any more.
ESPN sucks. Rodger Goodell sucks. Not hard to see what is happening here.
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