Posted on 09/14/2020 1:06:26 PM PDT by montag813
by Ron Kersten
The Sunday Night Football clash between the Rams and the Cowboys was supposed to halt the ratings crash the NFL has experienced so far in the 2020 season.
Instead, it was a complete disaster -- nearly equaling the devastating ratings crash the NBA playoffs suffered after embracing the Marxist BLM movement.
According to DEADLINE Hollywood, ratings for NBC’s only weekly NFL game, were down a shocking 28%.
Putting on the two teams with big national followings, SNF snared a 4.7 in early ratings among adults 18-49 and 14.81 million viewers last night.
In numbers certain to change, that’s a fall of 28% in the ratings and a hard decline of 23% in sets of eyeballs from what the September 8, 2019 official start of SNF snagged in the early numbers of its opening game of last season. While the early Nielsen data lacks West Coast numbers, which is kind of important when you have a team from the mega-market of LA playing, this result is going to be hard pill for the NFL and NBC to swallow.
These results are disastrous for the NFL. Not just because the numbers themselves are bad, but because of the teams that played on Sunday Night Football. The Dallas Cowboys have possibly the largest national fan following in the country, and the Los Angeles Rams play in the second largest media market in the country.
In addition, both teams have star talent and are very competitive with playoff aspirations for this season. And L.A. was premiering a new, super high-tech stadium. By all measures, the game should have performed extremely well in the ratings.
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Prostitute Gladiators, getting paid King’s Ransoms for performing a child’s game.
What an utter waste of resources
LOL Sounds like him :)
Why doesn’t Goodell renounce his white privilege and suggest Kapernick for his replacement? Wouldn’t that be the right thing to do?
If he was really down with the movement, he'd let him have sex with his wife while doing the housework.
I can have a more enjoyable time watching my 20 year old copy of Madden play itself through a full season.
Done with the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR, MLS, BLM, etc.
Agreed. I was hoping it would be a 50% drop
Despite love for the sport, I tuned out 2-3 years ago almost entirely during the last round of BLM mania. Last year it seemed to have passed and I worked my way back to weekly watching. They had atoned through lack of SJW content and lots of pro military stuff. Seemed like they learned their lesson.
This time is different. After watching the NASCAR and NBA debacles this summer I am shocked at the commissioners capitulation to Colin Castro, er Kapernick. Promoting him and Marxist race baiting is so over the top. The extra ‘anthem’. The signage, flags, kneeling on the field and sideline T-shirt’s were are constant reminder that these racists on the field are just giving fans a big middle finger. Well, I gave it back by turning the tv off.
Nope. Yeungling is a good, inexpensive, American made beer.
And owners have endorsed PotUS.
So, the Donks are boycotting Yeungling.
Goya and Yeungling.
Yum!
Nice job posting articles from 2019.....idiot
If it’s down 28%, the advertisers will start screaming for “make goods” payments by Week 3. That would end up being a financial disaster for almost every team because of the lack of in-stadium revenue.
Freshman football on the gridiron for me tonight!
Before or after the taxpayer funded stadiums?
The numbers for AGOTW probably buoyed by Brady’s debut in a Tampa Bay uniform.
Let’s wait and see how those numbers shake out.
Good news, but needs to dump all the way to the bottom..
A lot of the advertisers are as woke as the league. I bet they go along with the narrative and do not ask for make goods. Solidarity with the narrative and all.
I was weak. I watched about five minutes worth. I don’t think any advertising was successful in persuading me during that period.
I’d like to see an 82% decline, but this is a nice start.
I wish we could put this in Breaking News every Sunday afternoon before game time just to remind people of who the true American Heroes are. They most certainly are NOT the ball players, CEOs, MSM, and politicians who support the immature, seditious, malicious, uneducated, ill informed spoiled brat behavior this country is now enduring. They are not worthy of our soldiers and first responders.
Thanks for posting.
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