Posted on 10/06/2016 1:59:35 AM PDT by EliRoom8
However, one factor that appears to be making a large dent in the ratings and continuing to grow is the backlash resulting from the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick sitting or kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against African-Americans. A percentage of fans are now boycotting the NFL in reaction to Kaepernick’s protests and/or the lack of discipline from the league offices resulting from them. It’s likely that a sizable chunk of the rating decline is due to fans swiftly and decisively responding to Kaepernick’s growing protests by turning the games off entirely
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Perfectly true and perfectly stated. Thank you.
The NFL has now hired a female referee.
Will they also hire a transsexual referee?
And you wonder why ratings are down.
Having said, that, I'll point out that polluting the NFL with politics makes it easier for a lot of people to walk away from it.
And make no mistake about it, folks -- these people really are walking away, not boycotting. Once they find something better to do on Sunday afternoons, they never come back.
Millionaire thug players, gutless greedy owners.
Not to mention the leftist totalitarians of ESPN.
Marketing 101—Pissing off your customers is not a sound business strategy.
It appears quite a few of them are not playing hard.
I happen to disagree - at least somewhat. If the owners had pressured the so-called commissioner to sanction that loser and suspending him, it would have ended there. But they did not. I realize that a suspension probably violates their collective bargaining agreement, but that just shines the light on another NFL absurdity: a “union” for football players who make more than doctors or more in a year than many people make in a lifetime...?
NFL lost me. NCAA to follow.
I wanted to watch football...not a social justice play. Cut the LIB/asshat BS and I might start watching again. Otherwise, there is a lot of other fun things to do in life. It is no real loss. Did I say I despise LIB moonbats and asshats?
yes Goodell is a left wing loin and can eat it.
I, like many, are getting tired of Black Racism, and the hipocrisy of those who are behind it.
The sound of team owners quietly whispering to agents that their players will be getting horrible free agent deals...
CBS is admitting that Kaepernick is causing this? Fascinating!
I don’t know that the black players would all go on strike.
I watched the Philly-Chicago game. The vast majority of the players were black. Only three idiots protested.
Why? Do you seriously think they can't find non-black players to fill their rosters and play a great game? Seems to me a lot of the issues and bad behavior has been coming from those who you hypothesize might boycott.
Without their million-dollar checks and endorsement deals, these know-it-alls will be no better off than those they pretend to care about.
What do you mean "if"?
Read last weeks headlines.
It's because this is the NFL's fault. The NFL should not have been blamed for Ray Rice hitting his ho on his own time. However, these blacks are being disruptive at work. Their behavior at work is the NFL's responsibility.
It is too late for that. The time to have done that was when it was just Kaepernick. If they show the crowd and you hear them booing, you will know the BLM contingent is at work. If they eliminate the anthem altogether, you'll know it was because of lack of respect and will still be pissed off. I frankly think the NFL has let it get out of hand and have probably lost fans that will never return.
Count me in. I will not watch any NFL this year.
Lord, let me be strong when Super Bowl comes around and of my team is in it. Amen.
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