Posted on 11/30/2017 9:17:32 AM PST by Thalean
Colin Kaepernick’s anti-anthem antics have hurt the NFL big-time—the league lost roughly a million regular-season viewers last year, compared to the 2013 and 2014 seasons. In total, this was about a 6 percent drop in viewership.
But that’s nothing compared to this year’s carnage.
In the wake of the latest round of player protests (and President Trump’s twitter assault), viewership is in free-fall.
Forbes reports that this season’s television viewership is down by 3 million relative to the 2013 and 2014 seasons. And when accounting for the telecast’s average reach, and live ticket sales, the NFL’s viewership is down by over 4 million—a staggering 20 percent.
Some have tried to argue that the NFL’s decline is part of a broader trend: millennials and generation Z aren’t as interested in sports as are their parents and grandparents etc. This is true, but losing 20 percent viewership in the space of two years has nothing to do with broad trends—specifics matter. In this case, the anthem protests are squarely to blame.
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When the NFL hired that longtime, filthy Clinton ass-resident Joe Lockhart, you had to understand that yes, the Clintonian tentacles were deliberately being extended into the NFL itself—by the Clinton cabal.
They will do their very best to destroy the institution of football. They are still very much the face of the democrat party, and their evil CS Lockhart is ruthless on their behalf.
How I hate the GD Clintons and their many fully-owned minions.
90% of that 100 million will wind up as TV ads lecturing White football fans. What could go wrong?
Let them keep fooling themselves with nonsence about generation z and the like; but we knos the real reason they are collapsing. Wait til they see how much gear purchases fall this Christmas
A $100 million payment/settlement/shake-down to Kaepernick/BLM inspired SJWs.
That is every fan’s money being spent - right there.
The stupidity, elitism and tone-deafness of the NFL management continues to amaze me.
And very sadly, it shows a total lack of regard for the thousands of people in employment because of the NFL. The ones who will suffer the losses.
The players and owners suck.
Take a knee losers!
I’ll give you the final word on that as I’m too lazy and not that interested to prove otherwise but I was under the impression that Eli was an adult who made his own decisions.
Guess that explains why his older brother .... is the older brother...
Well... when you double down on a failed business policy... In this case, they tripled their negatives.
What amazes me are the fans who are willing to pay for this.
Burn baby burn.
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