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365806.phpAce of Spades:

September 14, 2016

That's a Shame: NFL Viewership Down

—Ace

Oh well.

 

Ed Morrissey says this:

 

The lesson? If the NFL doesn’t want to provide an escape, then fans will create their own escape.

 

Yeah, people aren't setting aside four hours and making plates of nachos to watch Social Justice Warrior Pageants.

 

If these creeps would like to try their hand at airing such a program, featuring NFL "stars" (or approximations of such), by all means, go ahead.

But maybe this is the first shot in a culture war counter-offensive which has been a long, long time coming.

 

Vox populi, vox dei.

 

Meanwhile, the NCAA is pulling seven important contests from North Carolina due to North Carolina's backwards, anti-Science stance that men have penises and women have gynies.

 


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NFL Ratings Tank. Any Guesses Why?
Hank Berrien
Sept. 15 2016

Whaddya know! The NFL’s ratings tanked after the recent escapades of that great American, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

 

As detailed by The Daily Wire, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been more than understanding about the insulting behavior Kaepernick and other NFL players have displayed regarding our national anthem. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost.

 

The NFL’s ratings for the first week of the regular season plunged from last year. The Thursday night opening game: down. The Sunday night opener: down again. The Monday night games? Guess.

 

For example, Vikings-49ers, the last game of Monday Night football in 2015, grabbed four million more viewers than this year’s opening Monday Night Football game. The only game that drew more than it did last year was Sunday afternoon’s Cowboys-Giants on Fox instead of the Ravens-Broncos on CBS last year, likely because the Cowboys are a perennially popular team.

 

As Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reported:

 

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Confirmed: Soccer Is Gay

Posted on | September 16, 2016 | 38 Comments

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You may never have heard of lesbian soccer player Megan Rapinoe, who protested against the National Anthem because she hates America:

 

 

U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem [sept. 4] before the Seattle Reign’s game against the Chicago Red Stars “in a little nod” to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. . . .
“Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.” Scissors-32x32.png

http://theothermccain.com/2016/09/16/confirmed-soccer-is-gay/

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Kaepernick attends Oakland high school football game and kneels during anthem as whole team lays on the ground with their hands up

  • Kaepernick was spotted at the Castlemont High game on Friday night
  • Told the team he was inspired after seeing their anthem protest last week
  • The 49ers quarterback also gave the teens an inspiring pre-game speech
  • Advised them to recognize their own self-worth, look out for each other
  • By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com
  • Published: 10:17 EST, 24 September 2016 | Updated: 11:05 EST, 24 September 2016
  • He may play for the rival NFL team across the Bay, but Colin Kaepernick was more than happy to lend some inspiring words to an Oakland high school football team.
  • Just as he has for every one of his own games, Kaepernick sat on the sidelines as the national anthem played before the game at Castlemont High on Friday.
  • But what the young team did as the Star-Spangled Banner played was even more powerful. Each teen laid on their backs, their arms raised to the sky. Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3805511/Kaepernick-kneels-anthem-team-lays-Oakland-high-school-football-game.html#ixzz4LCzyqS7n

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October 5, 2016

NFL sees 19% drop in Monday Night Football ratings partly due to boycott over anthem protests

By Rick Moran

Ratings for NFL Monday Night Football games on TV have dropped 19% this year, at least partly due to #boycottNFL – a movement to punish the league for allowing players to disrespect the National Anthem.

 

While streaming services like Netflix and Hulu have also cut into NFL ratings. there is a growing disgust by football fans with the league's response to players who take a knee during the National Anthem, or raise their fists in the black power salute.

 

Forbes:

 

There’s no denying that the numerous #BoycottNFL online campaigns and fan outrage aimed at the National Anthem protests in the NFL have taken a toll in terms of viewership.

 

Additionally, cord-cutting continues to eat into traditional TV’s ratings at an alarming rate. But could there be something else at play?

 

We’re barely a year removed from the NFL setting all-time records in viewership, yet now the league is on pace for its lowest ratings in years. That’s a sharp and unexpectedly sudden turn.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/nfl_sees_19_drop_in_monday_night_football_ratings_partly_due_to_boycott_over_anthem_protests.html

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The NFL Had Better Straighten Out–Or Else

By Steve Berman | October 5, 2016, 01:22pm

 

BoycottNFL is not just a Twitter trend. It’s a thing.

 

Both Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football are seeing steep drops in viewership. It’s not just competition from presidential debates, either.

 

NBC’s Sunday Night Football was down yet again in viewership, drawing in 16.68 million viewers and scoring a 6.19/19 rating in the advertiser friendly 18-49 demo. The numbers mark a season low for SNF and the show’s 11.0 overnight rating is the lowest total since 2007 (ouch). While the NFL still won the night in total viewers, those numbers mark a steep drop from last week’s 18.62 million/6.8 ratings and the week before’s 20.6 million/7.4 rating.

 

MNF isn’t faring any better, with a year-over-year 8 percent drop in week 4. Throw in the debate, and you get the worst ratings in MNF history.

 

The 5.7 is likely the lowest in the history of Monday Night Football. Complete overnight records were unavailable, but the lowest final rating in franchise history is a 5.1. No other MNF telecast has gone lower than 5.7 in the final nationals. Scissors-32x32.png

Play fricking football, not politics, money, and media deals. Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://theresurgent.com/the-nfl-had-better-straighten-out-or-else/

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The National Anthem, Lincoln, the Slave Owner—and even Better, Dixie

By Paul H. Yarbrough on Oct 6, 2016

 

The Star Spangled Banner, imagery created by Francis Scott Key in his poem written while aboard a British ship (he had been working as an American agent for prisoner exchange and was forced to remain aboard until after the assault on Fort McHenry) is the name for the well-known poem written by Key and later put to borrowed music. It became so popular that by 1916 Woodrow Wilson (by executive order) declared it the National Anthem. Later Congress, by resolution declared it again the National Anthem. Now neither of these actions have any Constitutional standing apart from some national being of the former republic. It was no accident that the seceding Southern states called themselves a confederacy (C.S.A.)

 

In light of the current brouhaha over football players (those mental giants of society) not standing when it is played, I remarked to a friend recently with whom I had served in the Marine Corps that I had never in my life stood for The national Anthem, nor saluted it in the service. Immediately he contradicted me and said he had not only seen me salute it but had been to ballgames where I stood when it was played. In my clever good- old- boy Southern way (he is Southern too—just didn’t have his thinking cap on) I replied “Au Contraire oh blind and foolish one. What you saw was my standing or saluting The Star Spangle Banner—NOT The National Anthem.” Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-national-anthem-lincoln-the-slave-owner-and-even-better-dixie/

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Are NFL Executives and WSJ Writers Actually this Stupid?

Member DocJay October 7, 2016 64 COMMENTS

 

NFL Ratings Fumble Shocks Nets, Advertisers…

The article devotes one sentence, really half a sentence, to the refusal to stand, BLM terrorist movement inspired, crap on the flag garbage as maybe just maybe a teensy contributor to the 10% drop in viewership. Scissors-32x32.png

https://ricochet.com/378247/are-nfl-executives-and-wsj-writers-actually-this-stupid/

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NFL Blames ‘Confluence of Events’ for Ratings Declines
October 8, 2016 MJA 7

Nasdaq: The National Football League has sent a memo to team owners seeking to ease concerns about the ratings decline that has hit football this fall. Through the first four weeks of the season, NFL viewership has declined 11%, and among the crucial adults 18-49 Scissors-32x32.png

http://iotwreport.com/nfl-blames-confluence-of-events-for-ratings-declines/

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Poll: White Americans disapprove of national anthem protests

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that most white Americans disapprove of athletes protesting during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

 

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Do you know if the ratings went down more R stayed the same ?

 

 

 

No I don't know. However unless the League addresses this at the end of the season the ratings will be down....and it would not surprise me to see ticket sales/attendance down. if not this season then next. If for no other reason than people want some place to go where we don't have to deal with politics/social issues...etc...etc.

 

We Could Call Them Safe Spaces (for normal people)

 

Now on a regular basis I just walk away and involve myself with something where I don't have to hear the words Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump/Racism/Transgender/...etc etc.

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Colon Copperdick will start at 1/4-back this weekend against the Buffalo Bills...for the San Francisco Forty-Whiners. Gosh, 14 million? Maybe he could wash all their balls, too.

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A Postmodern NFL
Victor Davis Hanson
October 16, 2016

In an essay that could come right out of 1984, Washington Post Ministry of Truth writers Drew Harwell and Rick Maese struggle to explain the abrupt erosion of the NFL’s televised audiences. They manage to cite every conceivable longer-term trend, such as saturation of the market, competition from other entertainment, the 2016 political race, and the decline in television viewing in general.

Yet these factors for the most part are familiar, insidious conditions that alone cannot explain this year’s historic and abrupt 15 percent drop in fall ratings.

 

The unmentioned San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick can.

 

His fad of ritually trashing the United States has now saturated millions of living rooms. His anti-American tirades and adolescent stage act enraged viewers, even after the refusal to stand for the anthem spread throughout the league without criticism from the NFL hierarchy — odd, given the now fossilized red/white/blue star-studded NFL logo.

 

What enraged viewers (I, too, turned off football) was mostly the multifaceted hypocrisy of both Kaepernick and the NFL:

 

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Is Colin Kaepernick Really The Reason for The NFL’s Ratings Decline?

By John A. Tures • 10/14/16 7:34am

 

As controversial San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick prepares to make his first start since his much-discussed kneeling during the National Anthem, reports are coming out the National Football League is experiencing a slide in television ratings. Some blame Kaepernick for tarnishing the NFL brand.

On Facebook, perennial presidential candidate Mike Huckabee chastised the “the NFL Commissioner’s mealy-mouthed quasi-endorsement of players imposing their grievance politics onto the game” for ratings that are “dropping like Target’s stock price.”

 

John Calvin concurred in the American Spectator: “May I be bold enough to suggest that the decline in ratings is primarily due to the NFL’s embrace of several of its players’ repeated blasphemy of our National Anthem prior to each football game? A situation…that the NFL could control if it really wanted to.” Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://observer.com/2016/10/is-colin-kaepernick-really-the-reason-for-the-nfls-ratings-decline/

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Buffalo Bills fans chant USA, boo Kaepernick as he kneels for anthem

 

Posted by Mary Chastain Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:30am | 10/17/2016 - 7:30am

 

Buffalo fans didn’t appreciate the protest.

 

Buffalo Bills fans have had enough of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick protesting the national anthem. They chanted “USA! USA!” when he took a knee and then booed him loudly when he took the field. Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://legalinsurrection.com/2016/10/buffalo-bills-fans-chant-usa-boo-kaepernick-as-he-kneels-for-anthem/

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NFL went to down the tubes when Marv Levy retired in 1997. I haven't watched a full game since - a highlight snippet now and then.

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NFL Ratings Continue To Fall In Primetime, While Baseball And Basketball Are Up

November 1, 2016 12:15 PM

By Matt Dolloff, CBS Boston

 

BOSTON (CBS) — The NFL continues to have a ratings problem, even as the league barrels toward the second half of the season and coverage of the presidential election is winding down ahead of Election Day. Monday Night Football once again took a ratings tumble year-over-year, as the Vikings-Bears Halloween matchup drew a 7.2 overnight rating, which is down 18 percent from Colts-Panthers in Week 8 of 2015 (8.8), according to Austin Karp of SportsBusiness Daily.

 

Sunday Night Football took a big hit as well, losing to Game 5 of the World Series in the Oct. 30 ratings battle by a margin of 15.3 to 11.6. It was the first time since 2011 that the World Series beat SNF in a direct ratings competition. The two programs also went up against each other in 2015, but the World Series-clinching win by the Kansas City Royals on Nov. 1, 2015 lost out to Broncos-Packers on SNF that night. Scissors-32x32.png

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/11/01/nfl-ratings-continue-to-fall-in-primetime-while-baseball-and-basketball-are-up/

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Arian Foster signs deal with Miami

 

The deal is worth $1.5 million and includes incentives that could bring its total value to a maximum of $3.5 million

 

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Being a moron pays pretty darn good.

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