Colin
Kaepernick
COLON CRAPPER*ICK.............
I was thinking this crap was limited to the NFL, so I limited my football watching to college only, but then heard the announcers praise the Michigan players for protesting during the national anthem and how it was “bigger than the game” and all that crap, so I turned that off too.
the nba apparently is in on the America bashing as well...looks like our TV watching will be avoiding them as well...
1) Agreed, along with a huge swathe of fatherless players whose only model for self-esteem is making fools of themselves on television. After X number of games and Y number of highlights you might think they would get over these juvenile antics but when they have no frame of reference they carry on.
2) Under Rozelle & Tagliabue, video games imitated football. Under Goodell, that formula is reversed. Combine this with the cancer that is fantasy football and the game has been subsumed by peripheral concerns.
3) Player movement. Good player? Good team? Championship? Expect a cash-in and a fire sale and a load of new faces you don’t care about on the team next year. The NFL, the owners and the NFLPA pat themselves on the back about their collective bargaining agreement but the constant shuffle of talent means, as one writer once said, you are ‘rooting for laundry.’
4) Commercials and interruptions. I watched a Super Bowl from the 70s recently. Each commercial break was 30 seconds (!).
Closer to the modern era, the Super Bowl was notable for the increased frequency and length of its ad breaks. That formula long ago afflicted the regular season with breaks of at least 1.5 min, often closer to 2 or 3. There is the ridiculous (as even the broadcasters admit) sequence of touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial.
We keep hearing that NFL games are highly-rated compared to other programming and that sports are somewhat protected against ratings attrition due to time-shifting ie people watching the game later or only bits and pieces. But is this really true in the age of cord-cutting, narrowcasting and people lost in their fog of digital devices?
If Netflix and Amazon video binge-watching is the new standard in television due in large part to the audience’s exasperation with 1 hr shows actually containing only 41 min of content (ie 1/3 ads), leagues and rightsholders are living in a fool’s paradise if they think the 2016-vintage viewer will abandon those objections for a football game. At best, the mute button is engaged during breaks. At worst, the users are flipping around the channels or kicking on the DVR to watch recorded programming - and they just might find something they prefer to watch there, thus abandoning the game.
5) People simply don’t have the money to watch in this ‘thriving’ Obama economy. No cable, no dish, no TV. Many of them sure as hell don’t have the money for financial products, vehicles or upscale purchases advertised, which means even when they are watching the ad buys are futile.
Im sure their advertisers are not happy. They base their commercial rates on past years viewers. Im sure they are screaming about rebates now.
16 game season dilutes the quality of the regular season.
Throw in Kapernick, and a lot of us are voting with our remotes...click.
That is the truth.
When I read about this assclown disrespecting MY COUNTRY, as an honorably discharged Captain, USAR-Infantry, I vowed never to watch televised football again, ever.
My fantasy fooblaa tema name is TakingAKneeNFL2016. Do you really believe the ratings zot is related to Colon? lol!!!