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As Ratings Plummet, N.F.L. Considers Reducing Ads and Length of Games
nytimes.com ^ | NOV. 10, 2016 | KEN BELSON

Posted on 11/11/2016 3:35:45 AM PST by drpix

The league has seen its television ratings plunge this season, something that Goodell has said is related to a number of factors, including....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; blacklivesmatter; boycott; clinton; nfl; pc; screwthenfl
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Of course, Goodell and the NFL still refuses to include the fan boycott of the NFL sparked by the behavior of Kaepernick and other anti-American and anti-White players during the games' Nation Anthem ceremonies.

But this fan disgust has actually been building up over recent years in reaction to the collaboration of Goodell's NFL with liberal activists in media and the advertisement industry to "totally transform" football games into liberal indoctrination sessions that Mao and his Cultural Revolution comrades would be proud of.

Look to the similar ill fate falling on the NFL's close media ally in this social justice transformation of sports from non-poitical entertainment into liberal indoctrination, ESPN:

"ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month {October} In Company History"

1 posted on 11/11/2016 3:35:45 AM PST by drpix
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Maybe have all the NFL players take a knee...that should do it!


2 posted on 11/11/2016 3:38:15 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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This must be another group of liberals staring at a White Board.

I have worked on Lean Projects and there is one critical element you must have to make the White Board concept work.

You need some people in the room smarter than rocks.

Otherwise it just doesn’t work!


3 posted on 11/11/2016 3:38:41 AM PST by cgbg (Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
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[ But this fan disgust has actually been building up over recent years in reaction to the collaboration of Goodell’s NFL with liberal activists in media and the advertisement industry to “totally transform” football games into liberal indoctrination sessions that Mao and his Cultural Revolution comrades would be proud of. ]

Gotta walk away from this stuff. Don’t feed the beast, it will begin to die from starvation.


4 posted on 11/11/2016 3:39:18 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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Given how much money the players, teams, and league make off of football, and how much ticket prices are and concessions etc., why should fans stay loyal when they get insulted and preached to for something they haven’t done?
5 posted on 11/11/2016 3:40:07 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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It;s because you coddle THUGGERY, idiot.


6 posted on 11/11/2016 3:42:13 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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What’s the NFL???

Give the Marxist BLM players the option to go into the clubhouse during patriotic moments. And fine them (or fire them) if they take a knee instead of going into the clubhouse.


7 posted on 11/11/2016 3:43:35 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Yes. It helps if one or two of the people involved are at least as smart as the whiteboard itself.


8 posted on 11/11/2016 3:45:01 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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They can’t be this stupid. Can they? We’re slapping them down and they blame it on ads and time?


9 posted on 11/11/2016 3:45:44 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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"Gotta walk away from this stuff. Don’t feed the beast, it will begin to die from starvation."

It may be already be working. I wonder if Goodell is floating the idea of less ads as a remedy only because the ratings collapse has already caused a drop in ad money coming into the NFL.

If this is merely Goodell's coverup for the success of the boycott his next career move may be to head of the DNC

10 posted on 11/11/2016 3:46:49 AM PST by drpix
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Gotta walk away from this stuff. Don’t feed the beast, it will begin to die from starvation.

Hear, hear! Maybe one day "entertainers" will learn to its better for business to keep their politicis to themselves.

11 posted on 11/11/2016 3:46:58 AM PST by canalabamian ("The same things win, that always won..." Coach Paul W. Bryant)
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If you want your viewers back:

1. Fire Kapernick; pay him off; make him walk.

2. Treat your business like a business. The NFL players are your employees who have to perform. Employers can't have employees who disrespect the rules they set in place to perfor on their jobs. One of the conditions / policies is that players are not to exhibit disrespect (whatever attorney term that will work legally will fit; it's all open to interpretation by the courts if challenged anyway) to their coaches, team members, nation, etc...I know it's a fine line here but establish it as policy within the scope of employment and it might work.

3. Establish penalty guidelines if violated.

4. Let the public know about the new policy using a PR team with jet flyover commercials and...

You're back in business and we don't have to worry about the Eastern invasion changing America's number 2 sport to soccer instead of football. You get to keep your jobs and make good money. The alternative is to stop paying so much money to useless players or quit your job. Your choice.

12 posted on 11/11/2016 3:46:58 AM PST by jsanders2001
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Roger Goodell is an incompetent fool.

He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.


13 posted on 11/11/2016 3:48:41 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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NFL games could never hold a candle to the World Series this year, and our guy Trump.


14 posted on 11/11/2016 3:48:57 AM PST by nikos1121 (I am way more deplorable than you.)
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Politics and sports do not mix...

They better fix it fast


15 posted on 11/11/2016 3:49:37 AM PST by Hojczyk
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Maybe if they got rid of all the felons, I might come back. Effm.


16 posted on 11/11/2016 3:49:50 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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As long as the sport continues to exhibit “Anti-Americanism”, it will continue to decline in popularity and revenue. Not rocket science. People simply won’t pay to get insulted.


17 posted on 11/11/2016 3:50:42 AM PST by GoldenPup
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Leave it to the NY Slimes to ignore the elephant in the room:

CUT KAEPERNICK


18 posted on 11/11/2016 3:50:48 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Haven't watched a game all year!

MFL - Millionaires Football League photo MFL-BOYCOTT_zpsmtghb8n0.jpg

19 posted on 11/11/2016 3:50:54 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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Fire the Producers to just eliminate all the social justice SJW aspects during the broadcasts. Tell ESPN you are tired of lefty politics in the coverage - if they don’t stop you’re going to give a big boost to FoxSports or NBC Sports cable stations.

Stop with 25 accepted penalties a game. Stop with super slo mo official replay every third play. Maybe don’t suspend the best player in the league and champion the back up from San Fran that disrespected the nation. Put good games on the national slots instead of the planned a year in advance games (it’s not like they didn’t know they had the winless Browns on the friggin road last night). Stop adding commercials to the broadcasts every year - all that does is reduce is the number of plays in the game.

Being a Pats fan, I think it stinks. I can’t imagine what it must be like for you folks with these always crappy teams.


20 posted on 11/11/2016 3:51:58 AM PST by major-pelham
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