Posted on 09/19/2017 4:54:17 AM PDT by C19fan
At this point, the NFL has to be having meetings with the owners and discussing where this is going. If this is the trend for the whole 2017 season...it’s going open up a number of side-problems on how you approach future contracts...stadium deals...and the ability of a team to threaten to move elsewhere. It wouldn’t surprise me in three years to see the NFL downsize by three teams.
I still can’t figure why the owners moved two teams to LA. There were 2 teams there in the 80’s that left because guess why? Poor attendance and low ratings.
I think the Raiders will flourish in Vegas. Rams and Chargers need to look some where like San Antonio, Omaha or perhaps Memphis.
Given what has happened to the NFL over the recent past, especially the last 3 years, I am stunned that the owners have not shown Goodell the door. I guess the owners want to lose money too.
Maybe Peyton Manning can own the Omaha franchise. ;)
If they can find the successful casino package deal for hotel accommodations and game tickets for out of town fans coming to see the visiting team, I suspect they’ll lead the league by far on away fan attendance in Las Vegas. Some sort of discount overall that gets new bodies into the casinos as well as filling seats in the stadium. Re-slice the pie so they both get what they want. Maybe even get the airlines in on it, they do for Vegas anyway already.
Bring back the San Antonio Gunslingers. Could you imagine the uproar if that name from the 1980s was resurrected in today’s limp-wristed over-sensitized age? Then again, Clinton Manges was a liberal.
Or St.Louis! The place the Rams abandoned.
I cannot imagine what could be causing this ratings slide. We all know players being disrespectful to their fans, to our flag, to our anthem, to our country, and to our ancestors who fought and in many cases died for freedom has nothing to do with it, but what could be the cause? It seems like everyone in the media and in the NFL is as clueless as I am.
> how you approach future contracts
I’m shocked owners haven’t been having meetings with the players union and agents about this:
A) Here’s what future TV/media contracts looked like a year ago ($XXX)
B) Here’s what they look like now ($XXX-YYY).
C) Here’s what future players contracts look like in both scenarios. Players are paid on on how entertaining the NFL is and right now the entertainment value is being greatly hurt for 50% of our fans because of 5% of our players.
Get players to understand and focus on the future pot of money they will be trying to get a bigger piece of. They will tell their teammates to shut up and entertain. Too many of them don’t have careers that will last through the next media contracts then labor negotiations. But those who do as well as the agents and players union are personally going to be making less money as viewership goes down.
The players get lots of money and fame from the NFL. That allows them to do whatever they want for social change ON THEIR OWN TIME. But they’d rather spend a few minutes of the league/owner’s product, 16 times a year to make a statement. And hurt everyone in the league rather than spend their own money and time to work for real change.
Maybe agents will be able to figure out how to give them a platform for real change (or for worthless feel-good statements) off the field and get them to shut up and entertain on the field - I’d guess agents have the biggest incentive and opportunity to change things. The NFL has more incentive but less opportunity. The player’s union is more of an enabling babysitter for spoiled brats and legal resource for misbehaving/criminal adults.
I began to notice that during the Super Bowl, but some of the commercial breaks last night had five ads, three of which were PSAs.
I think networks are having a tough time selling ad space for these games.
F*ck the NFL
Tough time selling them. Tougher time with makegoods afterwards.
I’ll just throw this in: A largely Hispanic market is not interesting in watching a largely African-American football league.. ?
tijuana
There should be a requirement that fans of a sports franchise that desert them for not giving into their financial extortion demands have to continue to that team. After all it was the San Diego Chargers for years. What about loyalty! (They must think it’s a one way street)
Omaha...Omaha ...Hut!
I’ll just throw this in: A largely Hispanic market is not interesting in watching a largely African-American football league.. ?
Somebody might wake up and move those teams to Peoria or Omaha and bring in some major soccer players and play world class soccer team.s
Saw a crawler over the weekend that Jerry Jones who runs the NFL killed the Goodell contract extension talks. Why pay more for bad performance?
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