Baltimore Ravens Admit NFL Protests Tanked Their Ticket Sales

Townhall.com ^ | Dec 24, 2017 | Timothy Meads

[Tea Party Terrorist]

NFL TV deals, merchandising and licensing are split equally between the 32 teams.

The only way a team can make more money than the other team is through ticket sales and concessions.

[castlegreyskull]

Loyalty is a two way street. The NFL has proved about 1000 times that they have no loyalty to their fans. They move their teams. They blackmail cities for bigger and better stadiums. Now they let their thug players rule the league. F-them.

[poconopundit]

I discovered how absolutely disgusting and infuriating TV was in general.

American broadcasters need to adopt some techniques the Japanese at NHK are using.

My wife gets the TV Japan broadcast, most of the shows being produced by NHK, the leading network in Japan (a network owned by the government).

One show I like to watch is The Professional, a series of documentaries that focus on a particular person, but speak to a larger theme of success in many venues. They have highlighted people of many professions: business leaders, industrial craftsmen, inventors, musicians, you name it.

Have a look at this highly interesting one featuring a Hiroshi Michiwaki who became famous (in Japan) for inventing self-locking screw/nuts and many other useful industrial products. Notice how this YouTube video (in English) accomplishes several things:

• Treats this genius inventor as an approachable regular guy who drinks 10 bottles of ice tea per day.
  
• Tells a bit about his personal history without going overboard.
  
• Films factories, infrastructure projects, and conference room meetings to explain the invenor's challenges and the way they are overcome.
  
• Features graphic animations showing how his inventions work.
  
• Uses everyday camera shots and lighting to make it more real, credible, and cost effective in terms of production.
  
• Artfully inserts a few of Michiwaki's life lessons and principles on how he sharpens his innovative thinking.
  
• Instills an excitement about machinery and normally mundane stuff such as screws and nuts.
  
• Shows how hard work, teamwork, and a quest for excellence Makes Japan Great Again.

CNN, ABC, NBC: are you listening?

[Liz]

I love the NHK channel-——a wonderful TV watch.

I prefer it to US stations

[fr_freak]

The Japanese have some great stuff. Unfortunately, we're not going to be able to emulate them any time soon if for no other reason than our demographics. Japan has a homogenous population who can take pride in themselves and their history. The USA has (now) a mish-mash of various ethnicities and national heritages who are all just fighting for the biggest piece of the national pie with no regard for the nation itself. So, go ahead and try to have an American documentary about an entrepreneur, but what you'll end up with is this group and that group talking about how that entrepreneur is only successful because of his white privilege, or how their group would be equally successful if it weren't for all the racism and sexism and homophobia, etc.

For the love of Pete, we wouldn't even be able to launch a show like "Little House on the Prairie" now because, inevitably, one group would complain that it promoted indian genocide and white supremacy, while another group complained that the show didn't focus on enough "people of color".

So, anyway, niche television it is!

[Amagi]

Goodell gotta go.

[cgbg]

“Never” is a long time.

Perhaps in a hundred years all the buildings in Baltimore will be torn down and the city converted to agriculture.

Then in another hundred years an ultra-modern city could replace it....

But in our lifetimes, Baltimore is destined to be hell on Earth.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yup. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.

[hinckley buzzard]

Of course. TV revenue dwarfs gate revenue. But the panorama of empty seats is a PR disaster, when viewed on TV.

[cherry]

its surprising how we have not missed it...I check the scores for a favorite player...that’s all...

[hinckley buzzard]

People who live on the degenerates who gamble have noted that the betting on NFL games has now shrunk to about the same as Or less than major college games, and dropping.

The NFL is facing a demographic time bomb which they will hardly survive. Suckled at the tit of the Baby Boom, which is now aging out, the NFL is finding that under 40 people mostly don’t give a shit about pro FOOTball.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

Merry Christmas!

[poconopundit]

The USA has (now) a mish-mash of various ethnicities and national heritages who are all just fighting for the biggest piece of the national pie...

For the love of Pete, we wouldn't even be able to launch a show like "Little House on the Prairie" now because, inevitably, one group would complain that it promoted indian genocide and white supremacy, while another group complained that the show didn't focus on enough "people of color".

I agree with your assessment, fr_freak -- and it's very well said.  Since the Ellis Island era, each wave of immigrant cultures worked hard to add value and fight prejudice and injustice on its path to bread, shelter, and self-respect.

In fact, the hopes of immigrants moving into the middle class enabled the commercial success of "Little House on the Prairie".  Your average American could identify with the Ingalls family story, its sadness and joys, because Americans had hope that with hard work they could also "make it".  The show's theme was also universal: my wife loved "Little House" and "Bonanza" watching them as a child in Japan.

So what changed?  A couple things: 1) the God-less culture of greed and lawlessness as promoted by Hollywood and the media; plus 2) the rise of the globalist, crony-capitalist federal and State governments which killed jobs, fostered dependency, and chipped away at the American Dream.

Thank God, our skilled and righteous Captain has the wisdom to steer us through these rough seas of inbred corruption and cultural malaise.

A Thanksgiving dinner by a warm fire awaits us in the safe harbor of MAGA-land.  But for now, it's All Hands on Deck!

[Bigg Red]

Die, NFL, die!