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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If this was a racist country, none of these black players would be getting paid millions per year to play a game. The game would be all white guys.
Their mamas did not raise them right.
Sadly NASCAR is following right in their footsteps- Winless Bubba Wallace and blm have destroyed that sport too-
Fire up the griddle the burgers need flipping boys.
“down a shocking 28%”
What’s shocking is that the ratings were that high.”
So true!
LOTS of other sports to watch nowadays.
Sprint boat racing is something! https://youtu.be/dlgO4r4jXLs
Biden’s tax increases will bite hard into their incomes.
Don’t really have a desire to go back.
As hard as it was for me, I also did not watch, for the first time in probably 15 years.
I hope most of it was curiosity, let’s see how far it falls next week.
I honestly could not tell anyone more than six teams who won and lost and that was only because of headlines seen online.
I’m sure even high school football isn’t immune to this crap.
Cue the cat who says “Good.”
I didn’t get past “see, by.” That’s when they showed the first players kneeling.
“WE ARE NOT A RACIST COUNTRY”
The number of whites that voted for an unknown, leftist, accomplishment-less black man in 2008 and again in 2012 destroyed the notion that they’re racist. Destroyed it.
If they keep their BLM crapfest up they’ll have to change their name from National-Football-League to No-F***ing-League. But I hope they feel better about themselves thinking they’re not racists now.
Well ...maybe they can salvage the ratings free fall if they open the game by burning a large USA flag......../s but wait...
I liked what Trump said during the rally (winging it), “It used to be when people asked you for a favor, you said, can it be any other time then when football was on. Now, it is, hey can I do it during football.”
Of course, he said it with much better humor.
NASCAR has backed away from BLM. Past support of BLM was not evident in their current TV coverage. For instance, there was nobody on TV taking a knee during the national anthem. And the overblown coverage of Wallace is gone.
In the NFL, teams are falling over each other in an attempt to show support for this stuff. At least one game introduced a “black national anthem”.
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