Are National Anthem Protests Costing NFL Viewership?

CBS Detroit ^ | 20 Sept 2016 | Christy Strawser

[vette6387]

“FNC went over to the dark side some time ago ... used to watch it religiously ... now no more .. Alex Jones on Youtube is my choice now”

Well, there’s still Lou Dobbs over at FBN. Don’t know how he keeps his chair at “La Casa Mourdoch?” Maybe he has pictures. Every night, Lou leaves Hillary’s jockstrap torn and bloody. Can’t wait for O’Gasbag and Kellytwat to collapse.

[From The Deer Stand]

I will not watch any NFL game with San Francisco and Philadelphia playing, and any other team that doesn’t stand for the National Anthem or puts their black fists in the air.

[Vendome]

NFL players are there to entertain and have degraded their own product.

[Alberta's Child]

James Olson, a Sports Illustrated subscriber since fourth grade, watches action-packed NFL games on TV to escape from the endless round of political bickering playing out on other channels. But with more national anthem protests cropping up, he feels like politics has taken over his favorite sport, too. So he’s tuning out.

This is why anyone who runs a sports organization should go to whatever lengths are necessary to keep politics out of your sport. Fans don't give a sh!t about politics, but they sure get turned off by it.

[Salvation]

**Are National Anthem Protests Costing NFL Viewership?**

Yes1

If they can’t honor the flag of the U. S. that allows them to play football, why should we watch?

[pgkdan]

LOL! You sound like my grandson.

[Alberta's Child]

The NFL would do well to realize that most of the decline in viewers shouldn't even be described as a "boycott." In the entertainment industry, very few people really boycott anything. They stop watching for a while out of principle, but in the process of doing so they simple find something else to keep them occupied. Within a week or two they realize they don't even miss it, and they never come back.

I'd say this describes about 90% of the people even here on FreeRepublic who are boycotting the NFL.

[wally_bert]

I haven’t bought a Papa John pizza in several years.

There are a couple of good small places that make great pizza.

[GailA]

Those are easy to fix, start boycotting their local sponsors. When their business falls off they will withdraw support and the teams collapse from lack of $$. Or coach gets the message real quick.

[YogicCowboy]

I have personal, extensive experience with the Mennonite persuasion. Most of the ones I knew were political “liberals” (read: leftists).

I now consider it a communistic and heretical sect. Significantly, Mennonites were generally strongly in favor of Hillary Clinton’s nationalized health care plan in the early ‘90s, and eulogized her for it as though she were doing God’s work.

Like the Jesuits, they seek to turn back the clock, and return to Eden: Heaven on Earth. It cannot happen, and that desire leads them inevitably into error.

In a real sense - no matter what they profess - they do not believe that Man is fallen and must be redeemed.

Many of them have now embraced the Marxist perversion of marriage by the Supreme Court.

Their artificial, untenable pacifism produces a go-and-sin-some-more attitude in the name of being peaceful and nonjudgmental.

[peeps36]

I know it cost them one fan, me. I refuse to be irritated by a bunch of overpaid morons who make millions playing a children's game. This country has given them more then they deserve. They are ungrateful douchebags.

[YogicCowboy]

Yep.

That’s why I now call all of it Communism In Action.

We’ve got to take back the English language from the enemy and call things what they are.

[TXBlair]

True. The only problem with that in this particular case was that, from looking at the video of the team and coaching staff (coaches were kneeling, too), few if any parents of kids on this team would be offended. They’d likely take a knee in the bleachers, as well. Just a guess.

But you’re right, maybe some of the parents of the opposing players would boycott the sponsors.

Very disheartening.

[YogicCowboy]

I submit that they do it out of their misunderstanding of Scripture, which has led them to make it a legalistic requisite of faith.

Now seeing Menno Simon’s cult as leftist in mentality, it is no longer a surprise to me that the congregation with which I was once affiliated had an ex-navy man as assistant pastor, and a homicide detective (complete with lethal weapon) as a church deacon - hypocrite, thy name is leftist - all the while they required new members to adopt a pacifistic way of life.

[faithhopecharity]

Agreed!

[bestrongbpositive]

Sounds like the perfect lady, give her the remote and do exactly what she says. LOL

[newfreep]

The Communist Power Fist salute remains repulsive!

[NFHale]

They’ll definitely lose viewership over it.

[twyn1]

My household refused to watch the Eagles game when we heard about the planned “protest”, originally hyped as “the whole team” participating. Not only did we not watch, I was hoping the Eagles would lose, and that’s a big deal, considering I’m a Philly (well, in the ‘burbs now) girl :)

[TBP]

I know lots of people who have stopped watching because of the protests.