Posted on 10/07/2017 7:40:57 AM PDT by Zakeet
Over just one month of player, coach and owner protests of the flag and National Anthem, the National Football League has gone from America's sport to the least liked of top professional and college sports, according to a new poll.
From the end of August to the end of September, the favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57 percent to 44 percent, and it has the highest unfavorable rating -- 40 percent -- of any big sport, according to the Winston Group survey provided exclusively to Secrets.
Worse for football, which was already seeing lower TV ratings and empty stadium seats, the month of protests and complaints about them from President Trump drove core fans, men 34-54, away, the most significant indicator that NFL brass aren't in touch with their base.
The Winston Poll from the Washington-based Winston Group found that the attitude of those fans went from an August rating of 73 percent favorable and 19 percent unfavorable to 42 percent favorable and 47 percent unfavorable, a remarkable turn against the sport.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
And I read that hockey ratings are going up. Maybe the NHL won’t be as stupid about insulting their new viewers.
Once you get past the DTs, it all works out OK.
Even your favorite team, if they are not loudly denouncing the “protests”, are on board with them.
(Note: No disrespect whatsoever is intended by this post, FRiend.)
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