Posted on 11/29/2016 8:24:06 AM PST by xzins
Well, maybe a not-so-attractive matchup didn’t help things. The Kaepernick story is no longer an issue now that the Presidential election is over.
Brady Bunch reruns in honor of Florence Henderson killed them. ~sarc off
I’m a Broncos fan and that was a great game I had seen in awhile. The only reason I watched it because of my team.
I don’t get the connection between google and flag disrespect. Can you explain?
Not ‘til the hot place evaporates their last drop of moisture.
The problem was Thanksgiving weekend, football all day Thursday, College games all day Saturday and NFL all day Sunday.
By Sunday night people were Football-Weary.
Plus Chiefs and Broncos hometowns do not have large populations like New York or Miami to draw in large numbers of eyeballs................
ESPN = E-Spin, as in creating an online spin room.
Major league football is hanging by a thread now, what with all the bad publicity about long-term effects of repeated and often undiagnosed brain concussions, repeated injuries and sending the players back out onto the field before being fully healed, saturation of appearances on televison, and the continuing show of disrespect among several of the players, which continues to go unpunished by the league owners. Add to that unjustified bundles of compensation paid to certain of the players, far and beyond their actual demonstration of talent, and what is almost certainly collusion among the franchises for “leveling the playing field”, making the game itself a huge Kabuki theater and not an honest struggle on the field.
It is almost to point where they could run dog shows opposite the NFL and get a bigger audience.
Part of what has really hit me this year is not just that I don’t miss it, but also that it doesn’t matter at all.
......and add to that a lot of people watch football at their local eatery or bar, nowadays, so they would not be counted as ‘at home’ viewers by Neilsens................
Me either.
If the NFL had booted Colon first thing, they wouldn’t be worried about their rankings today. Sorry, no sympathy. They are doing it to themselves.
“Part of what has really hit me this year is not just that I don’t miss it, but also that it doesn’t matter at all.”
I agree. I used to keep them on in the background while I did something else but now I have the joy of cutting off the networks cash cow.
I enjoy watching hubris earn its inevitable reward but the NFL has some systemic problems - and so does the NFLPA which often escapes scrutiny.
You often hear press lefties (possibly redundant) praise Marvin Miller, who no doubt was a lefty himself, and even suggest he enter various sports’ halls of fame (!?!) because he was an ‘advocate for labor’ and brought free agency (or at least the beginnings of it). The usual Marxist claptrap, even when applied to high-earning athletes.
The NFLPA agreed to an absurdly low salary cap vis-a-vis team and league revenue - the veteran players they sought to protect are instead being cut in the prime of their careers because they become too expensive. They are shipped out to awful teams and forced to play with awful teammates and they watch their market value decrease. Shrewd negotiators!
Well, the insane, constant movement of players has reduced the league to what more than one observer has called ‘rooting for laundry’ ie uniforms are the only thing that remain constant.
Once upon a time, video games simulated a sport/league. Now the league is simulating video games via sweeping rule changes.
In both cases the audience is fleeing because the product has been mangled beyond recognition.
They also made these changes during a statistically anomalous era in which many teams had talented quarterbacks and clever coaches. Now the supply of both is dwindling. But teams long ago abandoned the run game which, although less exciting, was more reliable for mediocre-to-bad teams and kept them competitive (see the college version for proof).
The NFL
Same goes for me. Not sure I will either.
Haven't missed it at all.
True.
Since the National Felon League has become a Defacto instrument of Hate and Divisive Behavior Which is extremely detrimental to the proper upbringing of Children, Shouldn’t the FCC BAN their Broadcasting over the PUBLIC AIRWAVES, For the Children??
Lesson to NFL (and all businesses): Never piss of your customers to the point where they realize they don’t need or miss your product any longer.
The NFL was riding high, and they're still in a pretty good position, but as people quit watching for a number of reasons, they rarely come back. And new viewers are always more expensive to draw.
There are a few reasons why the NFL is less interesting; too many penalties, poor matchups-and too many mediocre teams, and the slower action because of official timeouts. That was bad enough for the league- and then they had to support the foolishness of Kaepernick and other SJW's.
In just about every instance, the NFL has made poor decisions. As I see it, it's because of arrogance, and not understanding their core audience.
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