Posted on 09/30/2017 4:32:02 AM PDT by C19fan
With double-digit drops in ticket sales and TV viewership, they should be worried.
But, they brought this latest fiasco on themselves, starting last year with the Kapernick (sp) knee-drop. They should have taken Deputy Barnie Fife’s warning: “Nip it in the bud, Andy. Nip it in the bud!”
I LOVED doing our yearly football pool. Won many times and it always subsidized the next year. This year, I dropped out given the disgusting idiocy witnessed on the field lately. I’m done. The weather is too gorgeous here in the valley to be inside anyways.
I don’t think they considered that fans like myself watched 4 or 5 games each week not just one so losing me is like losing 5 viewers.
The NFL might achieve the impossible. Make soccer popular.
It is already popular, you’re not paying attention.
Owner Tose
I see what you did there.
The NFL was no longer entertaining before all of this happened. This was just a final nail.
It is already popular, you’re not paying attention.
I meant among real people.
"Some people have more money than brains. "
It's times like this that I think back to my school days. The majority of the big jocks in class were complete idiots -- as were most of the drama students.
You have to think of it as being lectured to by the high school jocks and drama class weirdos...
They now claim all of this kneeing is not against the flag, but it is against President Trump.
Regardless their so-called protest during the Anthem and Flag presentation is disrespecting both. They can attempt to change the narrative but it does not change the facts.
The BLM/NFL has started their downfall and I don’t see it stopping.
Yea, I used to turn on the crappy NFL games to find a break in the 24 hour news cycle. Now, its British detective mysteries on Netflix and Acorn. I’m just not into football any more.
If the game looks interesting, I'll restore the volume, but inevitably they go immediately to commercial. In that case, I flip to the other game. They may or may not be playing; if it's another commercial, I hit mute.
If either game has a decent match up, I might flip back and forth for a little bit, waiting out the (muted) commercials. Eventually, however, I get bored/frustrated or even worse - have an out of body experience where I view myself as a retarded tool willingly exposing myself to their bullshit - and then get up and leave.
I may leave the muted game on in the background, but even afterward, if the game isn't close, I'll just turn off the TV altogether. I would venture to guess my experience is identical to other millions. This kind of indifference is the real "killer asteroid", not an active, emotion laden statement of boycott.
Well I’m as real as you can get and I’m watching it right now.
Make sure you watch Line of Duty
The NFL politicized the sport thanks to @sshole number one Roger Goodell.
But his players are radical activists who could have ruined the NFL with a strike if anyone stood in their way of being racial anti-social kooks. Goodell and the coaches are afraid of the black brotherhood.
So the brothers have the power to cut off their stupid noses to spite their ugly faces.
I get it and I watch the Premier League. I’m talking about it becoming the go to spectator sport in the US. MU 3 CP 0
It takes a lot of “atta boys”, to overcome one “oh shit”.
MLS is growing rapidly. Have you seen what is happening in Atlanta?
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