Posted on 10/18/2016 10:13:00 AM PDT by 11th_VA
BOSTON (CBS) — Monday Night Football in Week 5 featured two underperforming (or just-plain-bad) NFL teams and posted the lowest overnight rating since ESPN acquired the rights to broadcast the show in 2006. The Week 6 contest between the Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets, somehow, performed even worse.
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Of course, there is still the segment of fans who have decided to stop watching the NFL altogether in the wake of players protesting the national anthem, which many mainstream media outlets continue to curiously ignore (save for a select few from Forbes and The Sporting News).
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The NFL is sucking the life out of its own product, and it certainly didn’t help that it started politicizing the broadcasts either. Hundreds of fans have emailed me to declare that they are boycotting the NFL over the anthem protest movement started by the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick. The hashtag #BoycottNFL has been tweeted or retweeted about 1,500 times in just the past 24 hours, according to HashTracking.com. The boycotts are growing and having an effect on the ratings, as much as the league may want to deny it...
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Could be worse. It could have been my beloved benighted Browns.
Could be worse. It could have been my beloved benighted Browns.
If it prevents them from making money I’ll look into it. As long as they do not make money or get ratings, I’ve had it with the media in this country. They want to destroy our lives then I’m doing my part to destroy theirs not that it will matter being that this country will pretty much be destroyed for everybody under that effin criminal psychopath. Today a story came out of her stealing furniture from the state dept. like a common two bit thief. Right THERE should tell people the woman is nuts.
Thanks.
I went to bed early last night.
Football is suppose to be a fast moving game, but they have slowed the game down to a crawl.
Every few minutes there is a stoppage of the play for some review, or penalty.
I have heard a plethora of local and national sports talk shows examine this problem.
Almost all of them discuss the issue in bad faith ie they don’t want to face some very unpleasant truths.
1) They ignore the boycott. They pretend it isn’t really happening despite viewers TELLING THEM EXACTLY WHAT AND WHY THEY’RE DOING IT. Many sports talkers are the usual lefty mushheads and, perhaps not coincidentally, further insult the audience by mocking their ideological stance - even as they praise the ideological stance of idiot jocks.
Lazy rhetoric dominates: ‘Are you really going to stop watching football because of the protest?’ Answer: hell yes!
2) Advertising. It will come as no surprise that individuals working in advertising-supported broadcast media simply cannot fathom a world when advertising itself was the cause of the problem. Forget player protests - for years the audience has told anyone who would listen that 6-7 minute breaks such as the touchdown-point-kickoff sequence with little or no football were killing the game’s momentum and their interest. Now live games have competition for attention from digital devices and DVRs. In addition, the ads continue to plumb the depths of annoyance (loud music, whiz-bang graphics, etc.), bad taste, and unimaginative spots featuring an army of Dumb White Guys.
At least the writer of this piece is willing to deal with reality. Many are still not.
Hey hey hey, when did the Cardinals move to Arizona?
When their product is bad (a 28-3 stinker?) AND politicized, the NFL is in trouble.
Speaking for myself, I've not turned on a Monday night game yet this year. Watched my Panthers in the season opener, then no more Thursday night football, either. And I can't stand NBC's Sunday night broadcast team, so no Sunday night...though I've not watched on Sunday night for awhile.
Might catch a game occasionally on Sunday afternoon, had the Panthers outstanding 41-38 LOSS on in the background this weekend.
But the days of me living and dying on Fantasy Football, and being parked in front of the TV from 11am Sunday through midnight on Monday, soaking up everything football - Recaps, SportsCenter, the works.... are gone. The Product just isn't as good as it used to be - too many ticky-tack penalties, for one. Too many #$#@$ commercials, for another. Kaepernick's showboating just sealed the deal for me.
Wonder how many other fans think like me?
Darn, and I wanted to watch that too ... but I really had to prune my toenails ...
Ticket sales alone cannot sustain a franchise and it player salaries.
It is the huge television revenues that have made the NFL rich.
TV revenues are based on number of households viewing.
Myself, I STOPPED watching ever since Kaperdick's first insult of the flag.
“The NFL is sucking the life out of its own product, and it certainly didn’t help that it started politicizing the broadcasts either....” That’s for damn sure! THE LAST thing I want when I turn on a football game is some a-holes political opinion...The NFL can go f**k itself! There are too many other options on the satellite.
Welcome to the club. I have been doing all the things you suggested for the past few years. I got rid of my TV set because the reception was ruined when the signal went digital, even with a converter box. Since then my wife and I have gotten all our news and entertainment off the Internet. She’s from the Philippines, so she prefers it that way; with YouTube she can keep up with movies and TV programs from her home country.
I watched part of the game in sports bar we were eating at. No one else appeared to be paying any attention in comparison with MLB or NBA games being shown.
Fantastic!
I really don’t know how they make their money. There are no advertisements, and the fee is like $50 a year. I can’t get news or sports on it. There are almost any old show you can think of. But, I don’t miss them. I get my news from FR, Breit and such.
I thought they were still in Chicago.
Get a clue NFL!...KEEP POLITICS OUT OF FOOTBALL
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