[blam]

Disrespect.

- Roll Tide -

[Personal Responsibility]

Wrong.

The product isn’t much different than it was a year or two ago. This is just another attempt to explain the drop in attendance without using the obvious explanation. Piss off your customer base and they stop being your customer base.

As I type this, I see empty seats all over in Miami for the Monday Night game against the Division rival Patriots.

[seawolf101]

Only dogs shit where they eat and the NF’nL players are going to find out why. These players are crapping all over the game and when they are out on the street they will be regretting it big time.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

As evidence, he pointed to “the four quarterbacks remaining in the playoffs — Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers, and Matt Ryan.”

Is this an article from last year? The playoffs haven't begun yet, and Aaron Rodgers has been missing for most of the season due to injury.

[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.

[HighSierra5]

NFL? What’s that?

[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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[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.

[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?