But they dont, they have multi-millionaires acting like they be the victim, the bullshit has run it's course, and the victims are over playing their hand, they forgot who pays their bills, the fans.

 

Ratings for 2020 NFL Kickoff Are In; Media Drops the Ball on Why Viewership Is Down
Posted at 9:45 pm on September 11, 2020 by Becca Lower


Houston Texans wide receiver Will Fuller (15) pulls in a pass from quarterback Deshaun Watson for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)


On Thursday, my colleague Brad Slager dropped a piece on reports of some very bad numbers for the sports world that have nothing to do with how many eyeballs are glued to the screen. He highlighted a new Gallup poll which shows that, across the board, whatever their political bent, Americans’ interest in watching sporting events is way down. And with a nod to last night’s NFL kickoff, Brad hinted that the league “should be paying close attention” to where fans’ heads are at.

Unfortunately, the National Football League didn’t get the ratings they hoped to start off the 2020 season. Thursday night’s Chiefs-Texans game netted NBC 19.3 million viewers; The number goes up to 20.3 million, “[w]hen data from NBC Sports Digital and NFL Digital platforms are added,”but as Deadline noted, it’s an 11% drop from the 2019 season opener.


But if they depend on the mainstream media’s coverage of the drop in viewership to decipher why, they’ll likely stay in the dark.

You don’t need to look much further than the url to see what a publication like Deadline thinks the problem is… “https://deadline.com/2020/09/nfl-ra...-coronavirus-houston-texans-nbc-1234575251/.” But it gets even more obvious when you read the article itself. You have to wade through 13 paragraphs (an afternoon update of eight paragraphs stacked on top of the first five of the morning’s story) until there’s a mention of what happened pre-game. Our Nick Arama filled you in on fans booing the social justice schtick. (SEE: Chiefs and Texans Pre-Game ‘Moment of Unity’ Gets Booed by Fans)

Deadline’s piece goes on to say that the TV networks still have high hopes that fans starved of live sports action will tune in starting Sunday for some usually-popular match-ups; They have their fingers crossed that Saints stalwart QB Drew Brees competing against former New England Patriots Super Bowl MVP (now-Tampa Bay Buccaneers) quarterback Tom Brady in New Orleans will entice fans.


They add, practically breathlessly:

….[T]here’s the LA Rams vs the Dallas Cowboys that very evening on Sunday Night Football too in an audience-less stadium in the smoggy City of Angels. Big drama, and big teams, especially the Cowboys, usually equal big numbers for the NFL and the networks.

There’s that word again — usually. Variety reported that right about now is when the networks usually start their fall shows, which would normally siphon off some viewers. And every sport now has live games going on, including play-offs and conference finals in the NBA and NHL, respectively. But everything else up against the game, besides “Big Brother,” was a repeat.

There will be something different about one of Sunday’s football contests, though. Sports Business Journal reporter John Ourand told NBC Sports on Thursday the afternoon Lions versus Bears game will feature virtual fans in the stadium — Fox is the only network whose sports division is planning to do that this season, by the way; the only reason NBC isn’t doing it on SNF, they said, is the expense and logistics of making it work from 25 different camera angles.

Here’s the issue, though: Whatever gimmicks the networks and the sports teams try to lure fans back, there are thousands who have permanently tuned out because they chose to kneel to the radical, Black Lives Matter social justice and anti-police agenda. I’m not sure what, if anything, the NFL could do to win those folks back.

 

Now the Libfucks will call the booing at Thursday's NFL opener some proof of American racism or something.
What it really is? It's the spectators saying, "Fucking stop lecturing us, you rich pampered pricks, and start the fucking game!"

 

The field of sport is not the place to make political or social statements, after all, it is a "work place", most employees have workplace rules, athletes are no different

 

The sports boycott of apartheid South Africa help bring about political change and the end of apartheid.

Thinskin

 

This aint South Africa, these 'professional, highly paid, so called athletes', are not victims of repression as the want to claim.

They're nothing more than political puppets and hypocritical punks.

There fan base is making a more important statement...-shut the fuck up and play ball-

 

I quit cold turkey. Laying in a damn hospital bed, first game of the Rockets <basketball>, so excited to watch sports cause I love them,
And everyone kneels down in front of BLM embedded into the gym floor, while the nation anthem plays. I changed the channel, and that's
it. No more sports, period. Thanks, colin.

 

And that...is a god damned mother fucking shame that this Nation is turning against professional sports.

The highest paid athletes in the world, and they want to turn against the very country that has enabled them to be the highest paid...tell me where that makes an ounce of sense on any level.

 

Pro sports? Overpaid. Egos to big. Loss touch with fans. I switched back to college sports years ago and get their season tickets (well, except for this year). The tailgates are better. The fans are extremely dedicated. They stand for the anthem. They play not for money (although I am sure getting to pro sports is on their mind) but for the school. I have no plans to go back to the NFL or the NBA.

 

This boycott isnt the same thing, SA was boycotted till it broke, this boycott, point made, from here on its a tantrum and marketing appeasement...what do the sports leagues protest hope to accomplish at this point?

 

So does it last eternally, sorry but it doesn't belong everywhere, people don't want things ramed down their throats, they are employees and need to act as such

 

Does it last eternally?

You mean like racial discrimination which has been around a lot longer than pro-sports?

Thinskin

 

Racial discrimination?....that sure is rich, tourist.

Which race is being discriminated in the U.S.?, you have any idea?

 

I go off what I see and read ace!

Young white kid guns down two and he is given a bottle of water and sent home while a variety of black skinned suspects, only suspects mind you, are summarily executed by law enforcement.

Is law enforcement colour blind or just blind?

Thinskin

 

I think you can find quite a broader brush to paint that scene with..

Seems you need to read past the title or even the first 2 sentences.

The laws are not for or against color.

 

Your seeing what is reported, seems Europe is loaded with fake news also.

 

"I went to a protest rally and a football game broke out,"

I knew this was going to happen. If pro sports does not cave in to the BLM crowd, there will be violence, protests, and calls to boycott their sponsors. If they cave in, they will lose fans. Pay me now or pay me later. Can all agree that the average sports fan does not want politics on the playing field? There are many serious problems facing our nation at the moment including racism. I don't want to see any of it on the field Sunday afternoon. Does that mean I am a racist? unsympathetic?

 

It is just news.......the label fake is all about spin.

I have expressed my opinion.

Thinskin

 

Let the players go on strike and not play the games, Oh, but that would put their paycheck in jeopardy

 

Mike Ditka seems to be enjoying all the kneeling.