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 ...
This should be have been the biggest opening day of all time, with millions of almost literally captive viewers with nowhere better to spend their Thursday night, massive pent-up demand for live sports, and a desperation for normalcy. But, like every other sport that has gone woke, ratings are way down.
It couldn’t be clearer: Ratings are down for the ultra-woke NFL and NBA. Ratings for the NHL, MLB, and UFC, which have kept the wokeness to a minimum, are up.
Also people have been locked up for four months. The last thing they want to do is play the belching couch potato.
Its not just football. I watch a lot of tennis and was watching this weeks US Open. ESPN force fed me a bunch of social justice “malarkey”. Are they intentionally trying to lose all their viewers ?
Forrest was right: Stupid is, as stupid does. Choke on it NFL.
I have been a fan all of my life. I did not watch any football yesterday.
Right, I posted the wrong link and have corrected it.
The daytime ratings weren't dismal at all and in fact Fox's game of the week was the best since 2016.
My take as well. Two years ago it was a boycott. Now it's just lack of interest except insofar as watching the crash is interesting.
Please keep boycotting. Don’t let up. Don’t listen to their games on the radio. Don’t play their videos. Don’t support their sponsors.
Support law enforcement and the American people.
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EXACTLY what we did!!
Those "oppressed", ungrateful pieces of s**t, that piss on our flag and anthem, tell their White fans that they are racists and hate them and spit on the cops that protect their sorry asses.
That is a good summary.
Climate Change has to be worked into the explanation.
The NFL and the NBA will soon be on life support and they will likely drag the MLB down with them. The haughty arrogant professional sports players who support the BLM Marxist movement are demonstrably anti USA but that’s what happens when the ungrateful pro player idiots are over paid by at least 99%. There’s not another country on this planet where any of them could make more than minimum wage.
That article is December 31st 2019
“The NFL and the NBA will soon be on life support and they will likely drag the MLB down with them...”
As bad as the NFL and NBA have been, have you watched an MLS or WNBA game this summer? If you wanna see over the top pandering and virtue signaling, those are the places to go.
Crap! Now I have to give up beer.
Missed the sanctimonious social justice lecturing by arrogant Crisp Collinsworthy on Sunday night (as before Thursday’s game). Then I turned it OFF!
Now he can spare himself the grief.
they just suspended Mike Wallace and won’t let him back unless he takes’ sensitivity training’ because he posted facts that stated white folks were kept as slaves too- which is an actual fact-
Nascar is still be controlled by BLM
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