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They hire drug dealers, druggies, wife beaters, cheaters (Tom Brady); dog killers ~ there is nothing too evil that the NFL won't excuse. Except for a peaceful protest.
The NFL is making short-term dollars, but will have a lot of long-term issues if it fails to address them......
1. Everyone knows about the concussions, with folks retiring early, and kids not wanting to play football, and parents not letting them!
2. Both sides of the Kaepernick situation, with progressives boycotting because they think "he's being blackballed," and conservatives boycotting because "players are disrespecting the anthem, and the NFL is not hard enough on it!"
3. A heavily outdated television business model, where games are being shown according to region, as well as the dreaded New York double-market rule!
4. A more outdated archive business model, where every old joint after one week is controlled and "cleaned up" by NFL Films! The Sabols and Facendas are gone, and time to update!
5. And did someone say atmospheric ticket/PSL prices in those billion-dollar stadiums.....?
I agree with your post 100%.
Not to mention - young people don't even have cable anymore!
So while some of you know or someone of you don't care he is the reason the NFL is having a crappy season so far. Loss in seating money, ratings and over all interest in the game.
1. It can't be popular forever. Every game and sport has its ups and downs.
2. Political activism in the NFL. From the talk radio, to the espn news to the players siting for the national anthem. Fans are tired of it all, and just go watch college football.
3. Over time the game has been torn down to safety, to over flag happy no plays ever stick.
4. You have the right to protest the American Flag but you dont have right to dance in the endzone?
Fine them for everything in that stadium.
5. There are a lot more options now as far as competitive entertainment goes and people are fragmenting into cliques based on the type of competition that appeals to them the most. In the past the choices were much more limited so you had a much more monolithic fan base. This is a good thing IMO it means more entertainment options for everyone.
That is just a natural result of more communication and more options to choose from, the more choices the more the available pool of people devoted to each individual choice shrinks.
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One other one: major hurricanes bashing Texas and Florida, two states that love football.
And everything needs to be put into perspective. The falling ratings of the NFL? NBC's Falcons-Packers game was watched by 20,237,000 viewers - - first place in the ratings. Second was America's Got Talent - - with 11,590,000 viewers. NFL blows away every other televised entertainment out there. College football can't touch it: Clemson-Louisville and USC-Texas were 5.0 and 4.9 million audiences - - 15th and 17th most watched programming of the week.
I think the number one is that the NFL has over saturated itself.
The Thursday night game is a downright travesty. No team is ready to play on three days rest. The product sucks. The Monday night game is usually a dud as well.
There are also only a handful of good teams, that other fans get sick of seeing all the time. The Sunday night primetime game, the main fox game, and the main cbs game will guaranteed have the Packers, Cowboys, Pats, Broncos, and Giants every single time.
NFL needs to be like college and broadcast all the games on at the same time throughout the day. That is the real solution. Then if the Jets are getting killed, I could switch to another interesting game, instead of simply turning the TV off and doing something more enjoyable on my sunday.
The referring is also atrocious, and College is such a more enjoyable product.
I think the politics has very little to do with it imo. Politics are killing ESPN, but I dont see it in terms of the NFL.
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