NFL's Problem Is Poor Product, Not Disrespect

Mises ^ | 12-11-2017 | Boug French

[Republican Wildcat]

This article essentially contradicts itself - because if the NFL allows the politics and flag protests to be part of the game, they are in fact part of the product - and that does indeed make the product poorer. Just like Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings dropping after he attacked his own viewers - those attacks were part of his product, and people chose not to partake of that product.

And in addition, studies have already been conducted which prove the disrespect for the flag has indeed been a significant contributing factor to the decline in support and viewership of the NFL so this article is further in error.

[dr_lew]

OK, 20 - 10 Dolphins. The entertainment begins!

[Republican Wildcat]

Allowing the disrespect to be part of the official ceremonies in the game makes the disrespect a part of the product - the NFL is well within its power to prohibit it but chooses not to - essentially endorsing it as part of the product.

[Midnitethecat]

Your kidding.

[libertylover]

Bullshit! It's disrespect! Period!

Absolutely.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Watched Cowboys vs Giants yesterday. Bryant drops two easy to catch passes. Just a bad game. It’s almost as if they are saying, I’m getting paid so screw it.

[dr_lew]

What are you smoking? Unitas? Starr? They’d be like high school kids out there today.

[zeugma]

Actually, it’s both.

Yup.

[hinckley buzzard]

No, they are bigger and stronger than ever, but that does not equate to quality of play. For skill, players in the NFL’s Golden Age of the seventies would make these lummoxes look like, well, lummoxes.

[HighSierra5]

NFL? What’s that?

[ransomnote]

The players care if they kneel so much they will do it at the expense of the NFL that supports them, but those they hope are watching them kneel shouldn’t care at all? RIght!

[dfwgator]

I just did catch a quick glimpse of tonight’s game.

I will say, man how I missed the old-school Dolphins uniform. They look great!

[9YearLurker]

It is disrespect and concussions.

Other than that the product is fine.

[Rashputin]

Fans were willing to hang in there and tolerate the degradation of the game hoping it would turn around but the disrespect for the flag, which amounts to disrespect for the “little people” in the stands as well, was the last straw.

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[Big Red Badger]

Grown men in stretchy pants...

Kinda silly.

[MtnClimber]

I think the main problem is the disrespect of the black pampers communist lovers calling the rest of the country (including me) racist. If they would not shoot at cops and take a knee when arrested then they would not get shot themselves.

[Big Red Badger]

IT’S even a boring Thread...
Thanks.

[Baynative]

If the NFL disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't notice. I haven't watched a game since the late 80, or whenever it was that Joe Montana left the Niners. So the loss of revenue and fans is OK with me.

I wonder how deep the pain is going, though. As the millionaire thugs in costumes and cleats go about their business of cashing checks and annoying society, how many vendors and collateral entrepreneurs may be going belly up?

[Alberta's Child]

The salary cap has really damaged the quality of play in the NFL. Two simple reasons: (1) teams have no chemistry because they are turning over half the roster every off-season; and (2) teams don’t groom young talent anymore, and instead they end up drafting young guys and putting them in the starting lineup long before they’re ready to play. Item (2) is especially obvious with young quarterbacks.