Probably because their fans weren't interested in seeing their team getting smeared by the lowly Canucks.
NFL dying
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Probably because their fans weren't interested in seeing their team getting smeared by the lowly Canucks.
18-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS DROPPING JAWS IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD
18-Year-Old Girl Is Dropping Jaws In The Football World - Sports Jamm
lol you can see where this is going eh?
Neutered Footgenital League
18-Year-Old Girl Is Dropping Jaws In The Football World - Sports Jamm
lol you can see where this is going eh?
Neutered Footgenital League
I know I haven't watched as much the last couple years as before but it has nothing to do with people kneeling. If they are going to crown the Patriots champions every year, why bother watching? But I admit that is a personal bias. But I suspect the people not watching or watching less are doing it for a variety of personal reasons. I would be really surprised if kneeling players was a big one.
It was an amazing one. I did catch that one.
It was an amazing one. I did catch that one.
"NFL is declining, dying, degenerating ...."
Top 10 sports leagues by revenue
National Football League (NFL): $13 billion.
Major League Baseball (MLB): $9.5 billion.
Premier League (English/Welsh football league): $5.3 billion.
National Basketball Association (NBA): $4.8 billion.
National Hockey League (NHL): $3.7 billion.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...it-stacks-up-against-other-leagues-2016-07-01
with the tv contract going into the year 2022
Top 10 sports leagues by revenue
National Football League (NFL): $13 billion.
Major League Baseball (MLB): $9.5 billion.
Premier League (English/Welsh football league): $5.3 billion.
National Basketball Association (NBA): $4.8 billion.
National Hockey League (NHL): $3.7 billion.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...it-stacks-up-against-other-leagues-2016-07-01
with the tv contract going into the year 2022
I would enjoy the game if a 1 hour game involved 1 hour of playing, but a game of 60 minutes where the ball is in play for 17 minutes is just a bit ridiculous.
Week 3 ratings were up 3% across all games from 2016, including a spike of 63% in the rating for Monday Night Football,the league announced last week. Overall, viewership for Monday Night Football is averaging 11.9 million through the first four weeks, a 5% increase from last year.
Fox’s NFL coverage for Week 4 drew a 12.6 rating and 26 share, a 14% increase over its Week 4 coverage a year ago. The network broadcast one game nationally on Sunday and the ratings were about 20% better than in the same slot covered by CBS in Week 4 of 2016.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...nt-appear-hurting-nfl-ticket-sales/715151001/
Gee, for a league that is dying according to right wing delusionals, it sure appears to be doing quite well. Please note that this report was made AFTER that of the OP. This because his is yet another right wing FAIL.
Fox’s NFL coverage for Week 4 drew a 12.6 rating and 26 share, a 14% increase over its Week 4 coverage a year ago. The network broadcast one game nationally on Sunday and the ratings were about 20% better than in the same slot covered by CBS in Week 4 of 2016.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...nt-appear-hurting-nfl-ticket-sales/715151001/
Gee, for a league that is dying according to right wing delusionals, it sure appears to be doing quite well. Please note that this report was made AFTER that of the OP. This because his is yet another right wing FAIL.
An Official NFL Sponsor Considers Nixing Business Partnership Due To Dismal Ratings
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...ng-pulling-out-due-to-dismal-ratings-n2404709
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...ng-pulling-out-due-to-dismal-ratings-n2404709
I hope you are right. What a disgusting situation too. 1st Amendment Rights can sure be displayed in the proper forum. In my opinion this is not one of those proper forums. BUT those who can barely read or right but make millions per year will finally figure that out when it is all gone. Have Bud, AT&T and other big sponsors back out and it will be history. 4 big outfits sponsor over $55 million per season. Take that away and the Networks will stop showing the games.
Bob Costas says football’s future is grim: ‘This game destroys people’s brains’
By Kyle Swenson November 9
Football’s explosive image problem found an unlikely spokesman this week.
Bob Costas, the popular NBC sportscaster who has long narrated gridiron exploits for millions from the press box, put the National Football League’s future place in the American landscape in stark terms on Tuesday night as he sat on a University of Maryland panel.
“The issue that is most substantial, the existential issue, is the nature of football itself,” Costas told the crowd. “The reality is that this game destroys people’s brains.”
Costas shared the stage in College Park with other well-known names from the sports world, including USA Today’s Christine Brennan and ESPN personalities Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser, according to USA Today. The panel, part of the university’s annual Shirley Povich Symposium, began with the moderator asking the journalists about the biggest stories in sports.
Costas pulled no punches, diving directly into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the long-term degenerative condition afflicting numerous football stars due to chronic, repeated and untreated concussions.
“You cannot change the basic nature of the game,” Costas said. “I certainly would not let, if I had an athletically gifted 12- or 13-year-old son, I would not let him play football.”
CTE is just one of the many storms battering the league. The 2016 season has been a constant argument over players’ right to kneel during the national anthem in protest; the league and owners have responded with ambivalence, stoking further headlines and controversy and drawing ire from President Trump.
This follows public outrage over the league’s soft-pedaling of domestic abuse by players. Television ratings are also down: The first week of the 2017 season saw an 11.8 percent drop from 2016, the New York Post reported. The viewership has yet to match last year’s numbers.
But CTE, as Costas pointed out, isn’t just a scandal sweeping through the league — it calls into question the very basics of the game.
A neurodegenerative brain disease caused by repeated head traumas, the condition results from an abnormal buildup of protein in the brain that blocks neuropathways. Memory loss, aggression, depression and suicidal urges have all been linked to the condition.
Since CTE was first tracked in the early 2000s by Pennsylvania coroner Bennet Omalu, the league has begrudgingly moved forward with stronger concussion protocols for injured players. Earlier this year, the league signed a $1 billion settlement with former players suffering neurocognitive disorders related to their playing days.
The science behind the condition, however, has only grown. This summer researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System published a study finding CTE in 99 percent of the brains of former NFL players donated by their families, The Washington Post reported in July. A Washington Post-University of Massachusetts at Lowell poll published in September showed that 83 percent of fans believed it was “certainly true” or “probably true” that CTE was the result of the game.
This week at the panel, Costas saved his harshest words for the white noise that obfuscates the basic scientific facts about football’s physical threat.
“There is this crazy notion that you hear on talk radio and some right-wing sites that this is just another left-wing conspiracy to undermine something that is quintessentially American,” he said. “There’s a word for things like that, there’s many words. One of them is bulls‑‑‑, because that’s what that is.”
Despite a long tenure in front of American viewers, Costas has not been shy about his opinions in the past. In 2012, the anchor was at the helm of a “Sunday Night Football” broadcast only days after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and took his own life. During halftime, Costas made a comment that many took to be a call for gun control, and a storm of criticism followed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-costas:homepage/story&utm_term=.c1fa73176362
Who knew Costas read Walter's posts?
By Kyle Swenson November 9
Football’s explosive image problem found an unlikely spokesman this week.
Bob Costas, the popular NBC sportscaster who has long narrated gridiron exploits for millions from the press box, put the National Football League’s future place in the American landscape in stark terms on Tuesday night as he sat on a University of Maryland panel.
“The issue that is most substantial, the existential issue, is the nature of football itself,” Costas told the crowd. “The reality is that this game destroys people’s brains.”
Costas shared the stage in College Park with other well-known names from the sports world, including USA Today’s Christine Brennan and ESPN personalities Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser, according to USA Today. The panel, part of the university’s annual Shirley Povich Symposium, began with the moderator asking the journalists about the biggest stories in sports.
Costas pulled no punches, diving directly into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the long-term degenerative condition afflicting numerous football stars due to chronic, repeated and untreated concussions.
“You cannot change the basic nature of the game,” Costas said. “I certainly would not let, if I had an athletically gifted 12- or 13-year-old son, I would not let him play football.”
CTE is just one of the many storms battering the league. The 2016 season has been a constant argument over players’ right to kneel during the national anthem in protest; the league and owners have responded with ambivalence, stoking further headlines and controversy and drawing ire from President Trump.
This follows public outrage over the league’s soft-pedaling of domestic abuse by players. Television ratings are also down: The first week of the 2017 season saw an 11.8 percent drop from 2016, the New York Post reported. The viewership has yet to match last year’s numbers.
But CTE, as Costas pointed out, isn’t just a scandal sweeping through the league — it calls into question the very basics of the game.
A neurodegenerative brain disease caused by repeated head traumas, the condition results from an abnormal buildup of protein in the brain that blocks neuropathways. Memory loss, aggression, depression and suicidal urges have all been linked to the condition.
Since CTE was first tracked in the early 2000s by Pennsylvania coroner Bennet Omalu, the league has begrudgingly moved forward with stronger concussion protocols for injured players. Earlier this year, the league signed a $1 billion settlement with former players suffering neurocognitive disorders related to their playing days.
The science behind the condition, however, has only grown. This summer researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System published a study finding CTE in 99 percent of the brains of former NFL players donated by their families, The Washington Post reported in July. A Washington Post-University of Massachusetts at Lowell poll published in September showed that 83 percent of fans believed it was “certainly true” or “probably true” that CTE was the result of the game.
This week at the panel, Costas saved his harshest words for the white noise that obfuscates the basic scientific facts about football’s physical threat.
“There is this crazy notion that you hear on talk radio and some right-wing sites that this is just another left-wing conspiracy to undermine something that is quintessentially American,” he said. “There’s a word for things like that, there’s many words. One of them is bulls‑‑‑, because that’s what that is.”
Despite a long tenure in front of American viewers, Costas has not been shy about his opinions in the past. In 2012, the anchor was at the helm of a “Sunday Night Football” broadcast only days after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and took his own life. During halftime, Costas made a comment that many took to be a call for gun control, and a storm of criticism followed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-costas:homepage/story&utm_term=.c1fa73176362
Who knew Costas read Walter's posts?
Racist' gun range billboards in South Jersey should come down, activists say. The range's owner disagrees.
Pic of Billboard ......
'Racist' gun range billboards in South Jersey should come down, activists say. The range's owner disagrees.
Pic of Billboard ......
'Racist' gun range billboards in South Jersey should come down, activists say. The range's owner disagrees.