Posted on 10/08/2017 8:50:48 AM PDT by 11th_VA
With NFL season in full swing, fans should be packing into sports bars on Sundays — so why are so many streaming the game at home instead?
Recent research from Foursquare found that in 2016, Sunday sports bar foot traffic dropped by 12 percent in cities with NFL teams; cities without their own teams saw a 13 percent drop. Furthermore, there was a 10 percent decline in people who went to a sports bar more than three times during the 17-week season, while only 40 percent of fans who had been to sports bars more than six times during the 2015 season repeated this behavior in 2016...
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we will quietly walk out of any bar that is showing NFL on their boobtoob
Yep
“Football as a sport has inoperable cancer.”
Yes, and these folks here somehow think that this will “blow over.” Perhaps, but unless it “blows over” fairly quickly, the damage to the NFL might be terminal. The whole sorid mess that encompasses the NFL relies on megabucks to keep it fed. Any cessation in a big chunk of that “income,” will cause serious financial stress on the whole. Television has a huge chunk of their revenue stream as a result of their purchase of rights to televise the games. If they don’t get the viewership they promised their advertisers, the advertisers get a rebate on what they have paid, but providers are locked into multi-year contracts with the NFL that they have to pay out probably irrespective of ad revenue. And everyone in the NFL payroll has to be paid as well. So those of us who hope the NFL goes under, don’t need for years to go by to see it go out of business.
We don’t go to sports bars. We don’t go to bars.
“Regardless of politics, there are way too many sports bars. Even non sports bars have a tv every 5 feet of wall space.”
We don’t patronize restaurants who have a gaggle of TV’s going. You can’t have a decent conversation in those places, plus the other “guests” are often loud and offensive as they watch their favorite teams.
Sports bars have been dying for a while. The market continues to fracture, getting masses together to watch the same thing is fading. The sports bars that are succeeding now have a million TVs no 2 showing the same game, some even have TVs in the booths so you can pick your own.
Early 20s is more important, they’re the ones that are going to be the core audience. And it’s also the generation that’s been abandoning TV and sports which is why rating are down everywhere. Winning that demographic wins the future.
Youth football isn’t as demised as people want to think. Yes youth TACKLE football is having a lot of problems. Meanwhile youth FLAG football is growing by faster than tackle is dropping.
Famous Sams isn’t gone. They lost a couple of locations. They’re biggest problem isn’t the smoking ordinance, it’s that they’re dumps. The owner never updates them, or the menu, they’re dive bars now. Have been for 20 years.
My sons love going to Atlanta United soccer games, not interested in the Falcons or the Hawks.
When I visited Atlanta, I went to a game at Bobby Dodd, great atmosphere.
We are not watching at hone either
They are less and less going to public places where they have no control over who will be there.
I have gotten a handful of calls in, probably, the last six months from friends who have been places (costco, another was a woman I know was paying their kids bill at the nearby community college, another was a large department store) and they all said, "WTF is happening--I was the only white, not only white but American born person in the entire place". One woman described the scene as "Tower of Babel level"
I have another friend who went and stayed at a resort for an anniversary type thing. Stayed at a decent place. It said they never wanted to leave the room because the place was loaded with dirties--tattoos, degenerates. He figured he had spent enough to not be around that kind of thing. He figured wrong.
Even still they are not feeling safe in their own homes. People's houses are routinely cased here, in broad daylight. They come up knock on your door and ask something weird such as "Are you interested in selling that Toyota out front" or "I am looking for Julie selling the computer off Craig's List". What they are doing is checking to see if anyone is there.
This happened to me three times in the past five years. Once they kicked the door in. Another was just last Friday. Before they came to my house, they went to another house int he neighborhood and tried to get the woman out of the house to talk to the father who wanted to "buy the truck". This was at 5:30PM on a Friday evening.
So, yeah, are people starting to not want to go these places. Probably. Wouldn't surprise me that their worlds are shrinking and probably will continue to get much smaller.
“There’s also the fact that young people today are more Hispanic and Asian. Both groups are generally too small to play and aren’t big football fans anyhow.”
And the team sports game of their choice is Soccer!
Yesterday I went to the Ohio State bar and was surprised it was less crowded than a couple of years ago. I know the article is about sundays games but I used to go to sports bars on Saturday because sometimes the Ohio State or Big Ten game was not on cable so one had to go to sports bar to see it. Now that’s not so. As for the NFL the Redzone channel has eliminated any need for most people to go to sports bar on sunday and then add to that the reactions to the anthem protests.
IMO fear of being caught DWI has caused a drop in people going to bars. In some places bars are a source of revenue enhancement. Cop notes car in parking lot. Makes a point of pulling em over, who needs it? Buy some beer make some snacks and invite some friends over. The beer is much cheaper and you can drive or sleep over any miscreants who had a bit too much. M.A.D. had an effect on more than just the legal limit. IMO
“Buy some beer make some snacks and invite some friends over.”
And watch something else, or play a game ... And get off the dope.
The Red Soxs are still alive. The Astros are starting to go cold.
Pastime.
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