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.
(Excerpt) Read more at us24news.com ...
Much more ignoring to be done to get rid of the Negro Felons League.
What we really have is the left blaming the middle class and “systemic racism” for the failure of socialism in the major cities.
Every single major city is broke... the Dems have sucked those communities dry and left a husk, which they now choose to burn in order to incite violence and blame somebody else for their own failures.
I’ll bet it’s much worse than that. They use polls to lie, why wouldn’t they lie about tv ratings?
Hubby and I stopped watching about 3-4 years ago. We thought it would be harder, but it wasn’t. But then, hubby was a diehard Jets fan, so it was probably a relief for him. LOL.
Probably FAKE RATINGS. Or they changed the way they are calculated.
I’ll admit - I tuned in to the first quarter of the Tampa Bay - New Orleans game to see Tom Brady in a different uniform.
After 25 minutes, I was done. The networks showed me at least 15 minutes of commercials during that time.
That’s been my biggest complaint for the last 15 years. Now add to that their insults to my politics and the American flag, and there’s no way I’ll sit through more.
The source is the owners. The commissioner works for them and they recently renewed his $44 million contract. They must like what he's doing.
Good. I hope the players can’t find work and have to make beer commercials.
They forgot who the customer is. Stop lecturing the fans
They forgot who the customer is. Stop lecturing the fans
Goodell said a team should sign Kapernick. How about hiring him as Public Relations Spokesman?
For the first time in 50 or so years, I didn’t watch my favorite NFL team yesterday.
In fact, I turned it off before the first snap, as I watched EVEN THE QB kneel during the anthem. That pissed me off SO MUCH that “click” went the TV IMMEDIATELY.
I’ve never not watched a televised game from start to end for almost 50 years.
Latest poll I saw was that 46% or so of people are against the “woke” NFL antics. Not a smart business plan to piss off roughly half of your customer base.
You’ve made your bed, NFL. Lie in it.
I don’t know anyone who is “boycotting” the NFL. They’ve all found other things to do with their time and have finally figured out how much of a monumental waste of time an NFL game really is.
Agreed, although I'm sure other excuses will be made. There are always excuses from the left/woke.
Hey!! I clicked on this thread just to see the mandatory Simpsons-nelson pic. What gives??
“Watch high school football.”
No kidding. It’s great to watch kids go all out when they’re playing for fun.
You’re kidding, right? That article you posted was from December of **2019**.
We are talking about THIS WEEK (um, in 2020)’s ratings, which were by all accounts DISMAL.
NFL RATINGS: FOX SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON LOOKS UP, NBC SUNDAY NIGHT LOOKS DOWN
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