Posted on 09/17/2017 12:43:43 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Athletes, and entertainers alike would do well to start remembering that it is the paying public that they need, not the other way around.
Hope so.
Hockey starts soon.
NFL leftist criminal thugs
Curse the dreck of a league. The arrogance and pride are coming home to roost.
I can see your point of view, but we really don’t want the US to go soccer/rugby internationalist.
The United Stated is baseball, basketball and football, and that’s it (unless you want the US to go subordinate to Soros).
We need to keep it up through the next set of negotiations with the networks in 2021/22 timeframe. The players and owners will only feel it if that $27B deal turns into <$10B next time around. The way it is now only the networks are feeling the pinch.
“Sling is owned by DISH. It’s basically DISH scaled down and without an actual dish.”
They are apparently cannibalising their satellite dish system as they have had the largest number of disconnects.
Charles William “Charlie” Ergen, the CEO of Dish, may be getting even with ESPN/Disney having Sling Blue without ESPN or Disney on the package. The not so great feelings between the Cable thugs and Charlie go back decades.
“The elite black millionaire players do not want any of us deplorables to be fans. I.e., white people, anti LBGQT folks.
They will make it just fine with gay, minority fans. Just like Hitlery did.”
It is amazing how these insane liberal CEOs have zero problems POing 62+ million of Trump’s voters from Macy’s to these jerks. Then, throw in several million independent voters, who served in the military and love this country for even more stupidity.
If Trump and his voters stick together for two terms, the end of these companies and their idiot CEOs/Boards will be studied for decades by students getting their MBAs and PHD’s in business. There will be thousands of thesis’s on how to destroy your business from the Mom and Pop business to mega corporations who ate the poison apples, they prepared.
The politics is only part of it. Personally, I’m turned off by the fact that the game has turned into less than a team achievement than a personal celebration of every little thing. Make a tackle? Dance. Make a first down? Dance. I think it was Bear Bryant that said of scoring a touchdown: Act like you’ve been there before....
I know that genarally if the nets underperform on the ratings then they have to give free time to the buyer. If the people stop watching EVERYTHING presumably wI’ll drop as a result. TV is where those big player paychecks become possible. Dominoes going down...
Several things would make it hard for me to drop DISH. For one, my wife likes to watch movies on the Hallmark channels, which do not stream. I also like TCM, which I believe is not yet on ROKU. Also, I like having the DVR. Even if I could stream those channels, I'd want to be able to DVR the programs, unless they are always on demand. I also have an OTA antenna connected to the DISH DVR and can use the DVR to record programs from OTA channels in addition to channels on DISH.
And the NFL/Networks are doubling down on their stupidity by showing and re-showing the Protest Against Whitey DURING the game!
Yep, I say the same thing about money. If you come into some, act like you’ve had it before.
I wouldn’t worry about soccer. When I in junior high school circa 1983, I can’t tell you how many kids and adults were saying that soccer ain’t nothing now but it’s THE up-and-coming sport. In 15-20 years, it will eclipse NFL, MLB, and NBA combined. Where is soccer in America today? The exact same place it was in 1983. Lots of kids playing it and 98% of them not giving a crap about the sport when they grow out of the kids’ leagues about the time they’re hitting high school.
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