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Even with the Patriots and Tom Brady, the Thursday night season opener for the NFL season was down 12% from the season opener of 2016. With the number of players planning to carry on with Kapernick style protest in this new season, looks like the NFL commissioner and the owners and others who think the protests did cause last year's 8% overall drop in viewership might have more decreases to explain away this season.
1 posted on 09/08/2017 5:29:10 PM PDT by Will88
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Hoping this Sunday is the lowest rated opening week since 1900.


2 posted on 09/08/2017 5:31:14 PM PDT by gubamyster
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Keep hiring players who disdain the flag, and the numbers are going to go down further.


3 posted on 09/08/2017 5:34:43 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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MISS ME YET?

Yes, we do Mr. Rozelle. Come down from Heaven or wherever you are and take back the league from that puke Goodell.

6 posted on 09/08/2017 5:35:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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Not watching overpaid, un-patriotic, ghetto scum, ever.


7 posted on 09/08/2017 5:35:48 PM PDT by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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the owners and others who think the protests did NOT cause last year's 8% overall drop in viewership might have more decreases to explain away this season.

Left out a key word, though I expect most all knew what I meant.

8 posted on 09/08/2017 5:36:08 PM PDT by Will88
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Let them find another nation to be the football league of since they don’t like this one.


9 posted on 09/08/2017 5:38:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Being a chiefs fan, I decided to end my boycott and watch the game. As soon as I saw them highlight the @hole sitting, I turned it off. I did turn it back on with about four minutes left, but I was only looking to see who won.


10 posted on 09/08/2017 5:39:03 PM PDT by Yogafist
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I avidly followed the NFL for over 50 years.

I wouldn’t watch a “game” now if they paid me.


11 posted on 09/08/2017 5:40:16 PM PDT by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who don't)
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So far, the Redskins have escaped all the overpaid, anti-American snowflake-ism so I will happily watch on Sunday. Hokies are the best, though! :^)


12 posted on 09/08/2017 5:41:20 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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So the big factoid is that the 2-YEAR drop (from opening game 2015 to opening game 2017) is ....

17.5%

If that doesn't light a fire under Goodell and the owners then what will? Shall they wait for a 40% drop????

If anything like that magnitude persists over a whole season they are looking at losing billions in revenues. Of course I would greatly prefer that they cared about the substance of the issues, but when team and league revenues take a serious hit, welllll.... money talks!!!
15 posted on 09/08/2017 5:44:26 PM PDT by Enchante
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NFL = No Fans Left

I went to the first game the Chiefs played upon moving to KC. I went to the longest game ever played, the Chiefs/Miami Christmas Day game (with my wife) and scandalized the family.

I went to a lot of games and for a dozen years the company I helped run had 8 club level seats and club passes. I met Lamar Hunt and his original GM. I met players and staff. I spent thousands on the Chiefs.

Last night I went to a pizza joint. The game was on the TV. I sat where I couldn’t watch.


20 posted on 09/08/2017 5:45:24 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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If Kaperpunk somehow gets a contract, the ratings will go down even more. The only time I watch is when eating out and the restaurant has a game on, other than that—don’t waste my time.


23 posted on 09/08/2017 5:50:55 PM PDT by Fungi (90 percent of all soil biomass is a fungus. Fungi rule the world.)
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This is going to interesting to see how it plays out. A 12% drop on top of last year is monumental and just how will it be dealt with?

In addition to the PC crap I am wondering if indeed it is also Peak NFL that I have commented on that in other threads.

Over-saturation of the markets and product could also be going hand in hand with the Public Relations problems they are having.

All these elements together could very spell a downward rating spike and then what will the NFL do with the sponsors and clauses in the contracts on ratings and rebates, etc.. It might be a costly season for the Cable & Networks in terms of AD dollars they might have to rebate and the ad rates they charge.

26 posted on 09/08/2017 5:54:17 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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What? Did the NFL have a game?............not sorry I missed it.


27 posted on 09/08/2017 5:54:43 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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Blacks are protesting because Kaepernick doesn't have a job and whites are protesting because of all the unpatriotic behavior. The NFL is screwed either way.

They brought this on themselves.

32 posted on 09/08/2017 5:59:30 PM PDT by Drew68
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Cry me a river.

They did it to themselves.

Bet next season they’ll completely do away with the anthem. Watch for it. And watch for the numbers to drop even further.


33 posted on 09/08/2017 5:59:56 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Time for a tranny quarterback in the league. That’ll increase the ratings!


34 posted on 09/08/2017 6:00:17 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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I watched the football game last night.

Sam Houston State vs Prairie View. Good game. Sam Houston won but Prairie View put up a good fight.

What? You thought the NFL? Not on your life. It's college football only now.

38 posted on 09/08/2017 6:07:46 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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I found it amusing that so many sports talkers in 2016 feigned ignorance on why the NFL ratings had dropped. When they finally got the unambiguous research they flat out refused to believe it.

As expected, many of them were still heaping scorn on the polls and on the respondents and brashly predicted a rebound in ratings. Waiting for their next excuse....


43 posted on 09/08/2017 6:16:52 PM PDT by relictele
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Obviously the NFL needs to get OJ back in the Monday Night Football mix,because THAT is what it would take for me to ever watch another NFL regular season game again.


46 posted on 09/08/2017 6:18:23 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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