I am not just done with the NFL for 2018. I am done.
I’m hoping for 1 billion in losses!
Good to see someone out there has an IQ above room temperature—I was beginning to wonder!
After the season ends (seeing how the numbers work on the Super Bowl and attendance for the whole season)...I think the NFL owners will meet and discuss this at length. They could afford one single season like this...but a repeat would put them into a difficult position.
I think the draft and salaries offered for the incoming crowd will be affected. I also think that contract offers for the players over thirty years old will be affected and some will see either no contract offered or a marginal cut. Big contracts for quarterbacks? Forget about it for the next twelve months.
this country is loaded with Patriots first....
Wow. The NFL looks like they are on their way out. I wonder how Bill Belichick and Tom Brady feel.
Brady and Belichick are seen as “white conservative men who place success and winning over the “justice of the oppressed”.
What would Lombardi do? What would Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs, and the other legends do?
Social Justice
Wait until they get hit with the decline for the Play-offs and the Superbowl. Weakly stuff they can explain away somewhat. Play-offs and Superbowl are too visible and the add buys too high dollar, it’s going to leave a mark.
20% is HUGE!!
There must be a whole lotta ‘splainin’ going on at the Board Meetings.”This is just a consumer blip. Nothing to see here!”
Winning !!!
The product isn’t that good any more, and hasn’t been for several years. I went to a Colts game a few years ago, and the numerous long commercial breaks just left me sitting there in the seat wondering why I was there. Of course, the Colts getting blown out at home might have contributed.
But it’s the same when watching a game on TV. I’d find myself wandering off to go do a project or something just to escape the boredom. So the fan interest has been something of a “bubble,” people watching just because they always had. Kapernick burst the bubble. People stopped watching, they don’t miss it, and if they do try to watch again, they realize it’s just not a good product.
NHL Hockey, on the other hand, is now very watchable and enjoyable. With large-screen HD televisions and modern camera technique, the constant action keeps my attention.
2018.
LOTS of people are not going to buy their long term season tickets.
It is going to get mucho worse for the NFL.
If I want politics, it certainly won’t come from nfl criminals.
Off Topic:
So the kids are being called “Generation Z”?
I would feel like an afterthought, were my generation given that dubious title.
I’m hoping for a billion . . . that’s a really nice round number.
What else have the networks lost money on that is still in business?
The good news re the dying National Felon League keeps on rolling in!
I agree. It's undoubtedly a factor. But, people have been turning away from the NFL for several years now for a variety of reasons.
If we can shunt the energy and attention put into pro sports into awareness and action in politics we can change the USA forever.
I’ve long thought that the only thing stopping a revolution now is football.
Like my Dad, I was a YYYUUUGE Jets and Giants fan, through thick and thin since I was a kid. When he passed away we actually took some solace in knowing you could see Met Life Stadium from his gravesite. I’ll admit it’s a little sad but I don’t know how the Jets and Giants are doing this season and I don’t GAFF. When Goodell and the overpaid kneelers who refuse to straighten up get the sh!tcanning they so richly deserve and there’s some basic attitudinal changes in the NFL all the way to upper mgmt. then, MAYBE then I’ll reconsider my boycott. ASSuming the NFL is still in existence.