Posted on 09/15/2018 9:27:01 AM PDT by PFW
The NFL – suffering from dismal ratings for last week’s opening game and Sunday Night Football, may be in for a serious decline in viewers this season if Dallas local TV ratings are any indicator – after the Cowboys registered their lowest local ratings since 2009.
"The Dallas market is an important market for one of the most watched teams in the country. There is a reason the Cowboys are valued at over $4 billion dollars. They absolutely own Dallas Fort-Worth. Nothing else really matters.
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The NFL does not want to see one of it’s most important market losing fans. It’s not a good look. It’s cause for concern." –Touchdownwire
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As I recall, Jerry Jones went on the field and knelt with his players at one game.
I think the NFL owners may be tone deaf about whats happening to them.
It’s more than the injection of politics into NFL games. The product has seriously declined too. Seems like every played is reviewed. Too many commercial breaks. I am / was a big fan. Now I cannot sit through a game anymore.
Why were their ratings so low in ‘09. Guessing they’re counting the number of viewers as opposed to the rankings.
Spend my day watching BLM VS Antifa?
That’ll happen as soon as I learn to juggle flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle.
WWF used to have a good guy versus bad guy thing. When will some NFL team decide to be the pro America we support the cops we don’t support BLM Etc. And set up a lot of good guy versus Bad Guy games?
DISMAL - - Everyone drink!!
If I had been Jerry Jones, I would have sold the team when the league was demanding I do that and walk away with $4 billion in my pocket.
If I were an employee and a few malcontents were cutting into/trashing my workplace/business, the very enterprise that was putting food on my table, I'd be moving for them to be fired or "suggest" they leave for their rainbow pastures...
"Professional" football is dead to me, with a DNR sign on the door...
I was in a sports bar where a number of patrons asked that some other “sport” be on the screens!
I agree. Too many replay reviews really slow down and affect the rhythm of the game.
And while we realize there are needs for commercials, there seem to be too many commercial breaks.
We can understand a commercial break after a scoring play. But then after that commercial break, we come back for the kickoff , and then before a play is run from scrimmage, they take us to another commercial break. It really interrupts the rhythm of the game.
NFL games nowadays take about three and a half hours to play. Years ago most NFL games finished in a bit under 3 hours.
All of this because overpaid spoiled brat players “must” use our national anthem to express their hatred of police officers.
They will continue to reap what they have sown.
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They have taken a product and exploited it as far they can and in the process have ruined a once great sport that had honor, grit and truly great players and turned it into a continuing soap opera that is in the gutter.
Too many rules changes, too Politically Correct, Too many over pampered players who have forgotten the game and seem more concerned with making political statements that playing, a total over saturation of the product.
Bottom line is that the owners are killing the Golden Goose.
The teams and the play is now slow and boring, the sportscasters are just terrible, way too many statistics that I could care less about, and a Football Commissioner that is a total clueless and has no idea what he is doing except pushing his Social Warrior BS.
They have ended up pushing away the core fans that make it all work and those people are not coming back. They have pretty much priced themselves out of what people can afford.
The NFL does not want to see one of it’s most important market losing fans. It’s not a good look. It’s cause for concern
Maybe they should get out there and actually Burn the American Flag while the Anthem is playing, It’s sure to get ratings
Not after you pay the taxes on the sale.
Inmates are running the asylum.
Still, 2 billion in the hand is better than 4 billion on the field and cratering.
Tomorrow the TB Bucs will be hosting the Superbowl champ Eagles. Outside of my life in Japan, half of my American life was spent around Philly and the other half in FL, the bulk of it near Tampa. In a previous incarnation, I would have hungered for this game, just as I did in 2008 when the Rays and Phillies were in the World Series. I will not be watching or listening tomorrow, and there is no sense of loss. That is how a business dies, not with a bang but a whimper.
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