Posted on 09/22/2017 8:59:02 AM PDT by Strac6
The San Francisco 49ers Thursday night game against the Los Angeles Rams kicked off in front of a nearly empty stadium.
Los Angeles Times reporter Lindsey Thiry tweeted a photo at the time of kickoff, which showed thousands of open seats. In fact, most sections in the photo have more empty seats than fans.
Thursday night football. Time for kickoff. pic.twitter.com/SinMLDH6AD
ESPN’s Darren Rovell reported that 63,500 tickets had been sold for the game, but of course, simply selling a ticket doesn’t mean the buyer will actually show up to the game.
It’s hard to believe there are more than 30,000 people in the stadium, judging from the photos.
The 49ers sold 63,500 tickets to this game. But 5:30 local start, being 0-2, vs a week opponent gives you this crowd ( by @colinresch) pic.twitter.com/eJyCSSQodV
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 22, 2017
5:25pm kickoff for the Rams-49ers game at Levi’s Stadium today. #NFL #TNF (: @ChrisBiderman) pic.twitter.com/r1T26iXDpX
— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) September 22, 2017
Even close to halftime, the stadium was not close to being full.
From my vantage point 3 minutes to go 2ND quarter. #49ers vs #Rams pic.twitter.com/pYbJPFNV6q
— Colin Resch (@colinresch) September 22, 2017
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This is not a great look for the NFL. TV ratings are already on the decline, and now people aren’t even going to the games.
The NFL is the crown jewel of American sports. It can’t be overstated how awful the optics of an empty stadium for a primetime game is.
NFL management needs to isolate the problem and fix it before things continue to spiral downward
Colin Kaepernick and his liberal sycophants are driving people away.
The current ticket sales numbers are meaningless, because they reflect pre-season box seat owners who bought tickets for every game. By next year, they will be long gone.
Dear NFL Owners. Is an average ticket buyer more likely to be a Hillary voter or a Trump voter? Fix the problem of player anti-Americanism, or expect to fiance your team on sales of cheap seats to liberal Blacks.
From the pictures I’ve seen, saying it was half-full is being generous.
Nope. The average ticket buyer is companies using them to entertain guests/family/potential customers. John Q. Public can't afford a ticket to an NFL stadium.
I won’t watch the NFL after the Browns started their insanity in the preseason with the coach’s and owner’s permission. Goodbye NFL
The Players Union apparently thinks the problem is that the NFL is insufficiently respectful to black people.
College football should be played on Saturday.
Football, both College and Pro has become overexposed.
It's a mystery just what the problem is. Just like the mystery trying to find the motive behind the Allah Akbar killers.
The Kaepernick Effect?
No, it’s the ‘Lousy Losers Effect’............
A bigger concern for the NFL -- to the point that they are probably very alarmed over it -- was the multitude of empty seats last week in Washington for the first game of the season between two long-time NFC East rivals (Redskins and Eagles) from cities only three hours apart. Up until a few years ago there's no way in hell you'd ever see empty seats at a game like that.
Stop giving them your money to insult you.
Let them get real jobs.
That is correct. Change the tax law so that companies can't write tickets off as entertainment expense, and the NFL and NBA will go bankrupt.
That is a good thing to hear
PTrons of football should walk out of the stadium in defense of the flag if they see someone kneeling.
They should demand a refund if it’s abut money. But people have a price on defending the flag apparently
Trump cannot do everything. We need to speak up. Or our freedom of speech will continue to go into the hands of the America haters
I’d love to see the day the entire organization went completely bankrupt
If there is any fan base sympathetic to Kaepernick, it's San Francisco...And Seattle.
Bad team in one of the most expensive stadiums in the league. And kickoff was at 5:30pm on a Thursday.
I’ve heard that the traffic and parking situations for that stadium are both gawd-awful.
I’d like to see at least a dozen half-full NFL stadiums to ensure that the point was getting across.
It’s not a Kaepernick effects, it’s the effect of being an awful team that had yet to score an offensive touchdown. Bad teams have a hard time selling tickets. And while they managed to put up points finally, they still lost. Expect things to not get any better there.
49ers-Rams tickets reselling for the price of two stadium pretzels
There are some who wonder why these two teams are even in the NFL.
I thgink a better bellweather would be TV viewers- Has that been goign down significantly as well?
It looks 20 percent full to me.
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