Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet

Danno · 10-06-2016, 02:47 PM

Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet

by WARNER TODD HUSTON6 Oct 20160

As each week passes during this ongoing NFL season, more evidence piles up to indicate that viewers tune out in droves.

But why is this happening? Well, one clue in a new poll indicates that one third of viewers change the channel out over the anti-American protests during the national anthem.

A new Rasmussen poll finds that 32 percent of adults surveyed say that they have stopped watching NFL football because of the protests while only a scant 13 percent said they are more likely to tune in because of the anthem protests.

Drilling down into the results shows that more women than men are tired of the Black Lives Matter-like protests with 29 percent of men saying they are less likely to watch pro football compared to 38 percent of women, who intimated that they are uncomfortable with the protests.

The NFL preseason kicked off in controversy when San Francisco 49ers second string quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to remain seated during the playing of the national anthem instead of standing in honor of the nation’s theme like everyone else was.

As the weeks rolled on and Kaepernick began kneeling on the field during the regular season, his protest spread not only throughout the NFL but into other sports.

Poll says Colin Kaepernick most hated football player

As the season rolls into Week Five, though, television ratings have been seen tumbling each week to new lows.

The ratings for Week Three’s Sunday featured game between Chicago and Dallas measured in at 12.9 in the Neilsen ratings. This is down from the previous Sunday’s 13.7 and that was down from week one’s 13.9 rating. Ratings also dropped by 18 percent over week three from last year for all the midday regional games, according to Sports Business Daily.

The ratings for Monday Night Football are even worse. The game between Atlanta and New Orleans received a low 5.7 rating. It was a 38 percent plunge over the same week last year.

During these protests, Colin Kaepernick’s reputation has also taken a major hit. Since he started his rants against America, he has become the most hated player in the NFL.

Despite that, Kaepernick has continued his anti-American attacks even off the field. Recently he attacked the U.S. saying it has never been great as he talked about Donald Trump’s now well-loved slogan.

“He always says, ‘Make America great again,'” Kaepernick said about Trump. “Well, America has never been great for people of color and that’s something that needs to be addressed. Let’s make America great for the first time.”

Kaepernick’s hate for the country has spread to other sports, and even high schools, have begun indulging these protests. And just last weekend a college marching band drew criticism from its own school administrators for taking a knee during the national anthem.

But, if the news on the ratings are any indication, Americans are beginning to get fed up with the constant drumbeat of liberal politics shoehorned into their once beloved forms of apolitical entertainment.

Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet - Breitbart

saintfan · 10-06-2016, 04:01 PM

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Beastmode · 10-06-2016, 07:07 PM

I honestly don't think this has anything to do with the ratings drop. Players have been doing this way before this year. Abdul Ryul (Chris Jackson) NBA was doing it 20 years and nobody cared.

I honestly do not watch the games anymore. I follow live fantasy stats and highlights. I talk to other people who play fantasy FB and they tell me the same thing. The NFL is in a decline in viewership because the game has evolved into this Disney full contact sport.

stickman · 10-06-2016, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Beastmode

I honestly don't think this has anything to do with the ratings drop. Players have been doing this way before this year. Abdul Ryul (Chris Jackson) NBA was doing it 20 years and nobody cared.

I honestly do not watch the games anymore. I follow live fantasy stats and highlights. I talk to other people who play fantasy FB and they tell me the same thing. The NFL is in a decline in viewership because the game has evolved into this Disney full contact sport.

I seem to recall a lot of people caring when Abdul-Rauf did the same thing. And I think it is contributing to the decline in ratings, but, I agree that the game is turning into something other than what most of it's fans want to see.

burningmetal · 10-07-2016, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Beastmode

I honestly don't think this has anything to do with the ratings drop. Players have been doing this way before this year. Abdul Ryul (Chris Jackson) NBA was doing it 20 years and nobody cared.

I honestly do not watch the games anymore. I follow live fantasy stats and highlights. I talk to other people who play fantasy FB and they tell me the same thing. The NFL is in a decline in viewership because the game has evolved into this Disney full contact sport.

You are entitled to that opinion, but I highly doubt it's correct in this case.

You might follow stats and not the games, but most people still prefer to watch the games as well. Or they used to. I think this unquestionably has almost everything to do with the protests. These are steep drop offs, not a steady decline.

As for what Chris Jackson did, he definitely took a large amount of heat for that, and it still comes up. But that was one incident, and it was basketball. This is far more widespread, and it's happening in a much more popular sport. So people are sick of it.

I'm absolutely tired of the touch football style of play these days, as well as all of the arbitrary dictates of Roger Goodell. But this rapid decline is happening right at the point that all of this garbage protesting began. I don't think that's an accident.

Danno · 10-07-2016, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by burningmetal

You are entitled to that opinion, but I highly doubt it's correct in this case.

You might follow stats and not the games, but most people still prefer to watch the games as well. Or they used to. I think this unquestionably has almost everything to do with the protests. These are steep drop offs, not a steady decline.

As for what Chris Jackson did, he definitely took a large amount of heat for that, and it still comes up. But that was one incident, and it was basketball. This is far more widespread, and it's happening in a much more popular sport. So people are sick of it.

I'm absolutely tired of the touch football style of play these days, as well as all of the arbitrary dictates of Roger Goodell. But this rapid decline is happening right at the point that all of this garbage protesting began. I don't think that's an accident.

I can only speak for myself, but I've stopped watching most games because of the anthem protests. I have read that many others are too.

Hollywood is taking a hit as well. People are finally sick of their crap.

Another reason I'm sick of it is all of the in your face crap and stupid celebrations after every play. And its bleeding over into NFL promos and commercials.

Halo · 10-07-2016, 03:40 PM

Here is my take from a Saints fan perspective...

NFL launches NFL Network in 2003

Hurricane Katrina
Immediately after Tom Benson claimed the Saints facilities were damaged beyond repair and he set everything in motion to move the Saints to San Antonio.

Commissioner Tagliabue along with other NFL owners stopped Benson and Saints from moving.

Roger Goodell becomes commissioner in 2007

NFL Network begins to become a PR mouth piece for the NFL commissioners office
Rediculous player suspensions start
Player misconduct not handled internally but in the public eye
Patriots caught wiretapping into Jets lockerroom - public specticle
Thursday Night Football comes along....
More public PR disasters, Goodell becomes even more powerful
Bountygate - Where former commissioner Tagliabue had to return to mediate and release players from suspensions because of made up evidence. Players were about to bring the NFL to its knees in federal court.
Blah blah blah - drama drama
Concussions - NFL knew about them then get busted and start changing all rules.
More drama
Deflategate - more Goodell drama
Tom Brady suspension - more Goodell drama

Colin Krapinjack starts boycotting America flag before games and it's allowed
(even though U.S. Olympias stood for the U.S.S.R.'s national anthem during the cold war, players protest their own country's flag - unsportsmanlike...)

So really the recent protest and allowing politics to start every game is only the latest B.S. that fans have to put up with watching the NFL. To me, there's a very consistent pattern involving the de-evolution of the game of American Football since Roger Goodell became commissioner.

And Qbrees9 is right - the market is saturated. Way too many MNF, TNF, SNF games. GIVE IT A REST NFL. Even I get tired watching games.

burningmetal · 10-07-2016, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Halo

Here is my take from a Saints fan perspective...

NFL launches NFL Network in 2003

Hurricane Katrina
Immediately after Tom Benson claimed the Saints facilities were damaged beyond repair and he set everything in motion to move the Saints to San Antonio.

Commissioner Tagliabue along with other NFL owners stopped Benson and Saints from moving.

Roger Goodell becomes commissioner in 2007
NFL Network begins to become a PR mouth piece for the NFL commissioners office

Rediculous player suspensions start

Player misconduct not handled internally but in the public eye

Patriots caught wiretapping into Jets lockerroom - public specticle

Thursday Night Football comes along....

More public PR disasters, Goodell becomes even more powerful

Bountygate - Where former commissioner Tagliabue had to return to mediate and release players from suspensions because of made up evidence. Players were about to bring the NFL to its knees in federal court.

Blah blah blah - drama drama

Concussions - NFL knew about them then get busted and start changing all rules.

More drama

Deflategate - more Goodell drama

Tom Brady suspension - more Goodell drama

Colin Krapinjack starts boycotting America flag before games and it's allowed
(even though U.S. Olympias stood for the U.S.S.R.'s national anthem during the cold war, players protest their own country's flag - unsportsmanlike...)

So really the recent protest and allowing politics to start every game is only the latest B.S. that fans have to put up with watching the NFL. To me, there's a very consistent pattern involving the de-evolution of the game of American Football since Roger Goodell became commissioner.

And Qbrees9 is right - the market is saturated. Way too many MNF, TNF, SNF games. GIVE IT A REST NFL. Even I get tired watching games.

There's no question that the NFL has had one PR disaster after another. The train wreck that is Roger Goodell has been, I would say, well documented.

But when specifically talking about this protesting crap, there has never been a time that I am aware of where there has been such a sudden drop in ratings. The NFL has been gradually watering itself down for years. I absolutely agree with that. But allowing these protests is, by the numbers I see, the worst thing that has happened to the league in a long time, and maybe ever.

burningmetal · 10-07-2016, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Danno

I can only speak for myself, but I've stopped watching most games because of the anthem protests. I have read that many others are too.

Hollywood is taking a hit as well. People are finally sick of their crap.

Another reason I'm sick of it is all of the in your face crap and stupid celebrations after every play. And its bleeding over into NFL promos and commercials.

I have watched a grand total of maybe 5 minutes of the NFL that wasn't a Saints game this season. I haven't really talked to many people about what they think but I can certainly believe that a lot of people are fed up, all over.

I have lost a great deal of interest over the years due to the lack of what I consider "real football". The league just doesn't have the lure and mystique it once had. Too much mediocrity and highly restrictive (often confusing) rules. But up until now, there didn't seem to be a noticeable drop in ratings or attendance. You can tell the difference when people are truly pissed off.

stickman · 10-07-2016, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by burningmetal

As for what Chris Jackson did, he definitely took a large amount of heat for that, and it still comes up. But that was one incident, and it was basketball. This is far more widespread, and it's happening in a much more popular sport. So people are sick of it.

It was more than one incident, and like Kap, it took a couple of games before people even noticed. I think what he eventually did was decide, since he was refusing to stand during the anthem for religious beliefs, was to just pray while the anthem was being played.

It kind of died down after that.

10-06-2016, 02:47 PM	#1
Danno Truth Addict Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Spanish Fort, AL (via NO and B/R) Posts: 24,653	Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet by WARNER TODD HUSTON6 Oct 20160 As each week passes during this ongoing NFL season, more evidence piles up to indicate that viewers tune out in droves. But why is this happening? Well, one clue in a new poll indicates that one third of viewers change the channel out over the anti-American protests during the national anthem. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 32 percent of adults surveyed say that they have stopped watching NFL football because of the protests while only a scant 13 percent said they are more likely to tune in because of the anthem protests. Drilling down into the results shows that more women than men are tired of the Black Lives Matter-like protests with 29 percent of men saying they are less likely to watch pro football compared to 38 percent of women, who intimated that they are uncomfortable with the protests. The NFL preseason kicked off in controversy when San Francisco 49ers second string quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to remain seated during the playing of the national anthem instead of standing in honor of the nation’s theme like everyone else was. As the weeks rolled on and Kaepernick began kneeling on the field during the regular season, his protest spread not only throughout the NFL but into other sports. Poll says Colin Kaepernick most hated football player As the season rolls into Week Five, though, television ratings have been seen tumbling each week to new lows. The ratings for Week Three’s Sunday featured game between Chicago and Dallas measured in at 12.9 in the Neilsen ratings. This is down from the previous Sunday’s 13.7 and that was down from week one’s 13.9 rating. Ratings also dropped by 18 percent over week three from last year for all the midday regional games, according to Sports Business Daily. The ratings for Monday Night Football are even worse. The game between Atlanta and New Orleans received a low 5.7 rating. It was a 38 percent plunge over the same week last year. During these protests, Colin Kaepernick’s reputation has also taken a major hit. Since he started his rants against America, he has become the most hated player in the NFL. Despite that, Kaepernick has continued his anti-American attacks even off the field. Recently he attacked the U.S. saying it has never been great as he talked about Donald Trump’s now well-loved slogan. “He always says, ‘Make America great again,'” Kaepernick said about Trump. “Well, America has never been great for people of color and that’s something that needs to be addressed. Let’s make America great for the first time.” Kaepernick’s hate for the country has spread to other sports, and even high schools, have begun indulging these protests. And just last weekend a college marching band drew criticism from its own school administrators for taking a knee during the national anthem. But, if the news on the ratings are any indication, Americans are beginning to get fed up with the constant drumbeat of liberal politics shoehorned into their once beloved forms of apolitical entertainment. Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet - Breitbart saintfan, SmashMouth, frydaddy and 2 others like this.

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stickman 1000 Posts + Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Gonzales, LA Posts: 1,603	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Originally Posted by Beastmode I honestly don't think this has anything to do with the ratings drop. Players have been doing this way before this year. Abdul Ryul (Chris Jackson) NBA was doing it 20 years and nobody cared. I honestly do not watch the games anymore. I follow live fantasy stats and highlights. I talk to other people who play fantasy FB and they tell me the same thing. The NFL is in a decline in viewership because the game has evolved into this Disney full contact sport. I seem to recall a lot of people caring when Abdul-Rauf did the same thing. And I think it is contributing to the decline in ratings, but, I agree that the game is turning into something other than what most of it's fans want to see.

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burningmetal 1000 Posts + Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 3,906 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Originally Posted by Beastmode I honestly don't think this has anything to do with the ratings drop. Players have been doing this way before this year. Abdul Ryul (Chris Jackson) NBA was doing it 20 years and nobody cared. I honestly do not watch the games anymore. I follow live fantasy stats and highlights. I talk to other people who play fantasy FB and they tell me the same thing. The NFL is in a decline in viewership because the game has evolved into this Disney full contact sport. You are entitled to that opinion, but I highly doubt it's correct in this case. You might follow stats and not the games, but most people still prefer to watch the games as well. Or they used to. I think this unquestionably has almost everything to do with the protests. These are steep drop offs, not a steady decline. As for what Chris Jackson did, he definitely took a large amount of heat for that, and it still comes up. But that was one incident, and it was basketball. This is far more widespread, and it's happening in a much more popular sport. So people are sick of it. I'm absolutely tired of the touch football style of play these days, as well as all of the arbitrary dictates of Roger Goodell. But this rapid decline is happening right at the point that all of this garbage protesting began. I don't think that's an accident. Danno likes this.
	If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.

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Danno Truth Addict Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Spanish Fort, AL (via NO and B/R) Posts: 24,653	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Originally Posted by burningmetal You are entitled to that opinion, but I highly doubt it's correct in this case. You might follow stats and not the games, but most people still prefer to watch the games as well. Or they used to. I think this unquestionably has almost everything to do with the protests. These are steep drop offs, not a steady decline. As for what Chris Jackson did, he definitely took a large amount of heat for that, and it still comes up. But that was one incident, and it was basketball. This is far more widespread, and it's happening in a much more popular sport. So people are sick of it. I'm absolutely tired of the touch football style of play these days, as well as all of the arbitrary dictates of Roger Goodell. But this rapid decline is happening right at the point that all of this garbage protesting began. I don't think that's an accident. I can only speak for myself, but I've stopped watching most games because of the anthem protests. I have read that many others are too. Hollywood is taking a hit as well. People are finally sick of their crap. Another reason I'm sick of it is all of the in your face crap and stupid celebrations after every play. And its bleeding over into NFL promos and commercials.

10-07-2016, 03:40 PM	#7
Halo Site Donor MONTHLY Join Date: May 2002 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 20,245 Blog Entries: 45	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Here is my take from a Saints fan perspective... NFL launches NFL Network in 2003 Hurricane Katrina Immediately after Tom Benson claimed the Saints facilities were damaged beyond repair and he set everything in motion to move the Saints to San Antonio. Commissioner Tagliabue along with other NFL owners stopped Benson and Saints from moving. Roger Goodell becomes commissioner in 2007 NFL Network begins to become a PR mouth piece for the NFL commissioners office Rediculous player suspensions start Player misconduct not handled internally but in the public eye Patriots caught wiretapping into Jets lockerroom - public specticle Thursday Night Football comes along.... More public PR disasters, Goodell becomes even more powerful Bountygate - Where former commissioner Tagliabue had to return to mediate and release players from suspensions because of made up evidence. Players were about to bring the NFL to its knees in federal court. Blah blah blah - drama drama Concussions - NFL knew about them then get busted and start changing all rules. More drama Deflategate - more Goodell drama Tom Brady suspension - more Goodell drama Colin Krapinjack starts boycotting America flag before games and it's allowed (even though U.S. Olympias stood for the U.S.S.R.'s national anthem during the cold war, players protest their own country's flag - unsportsmanlike...) So really the recent protest and allowing politics to start every game is only the latest B.S. that fans have to put up with watching the NFL. To me, there's a very consistent pattern involving the de-evolution of the game of American Football since Roger Goodell became commissioner. And Qbrees9 is right - the market is saturated. Way too many MNF, TNF, SNF games. GIVE IT A REST NFL. Even I get tired watching games. saintfan and Beastmode like this.
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10-07-2016, 04:43 PM	#8
burningmetal 1000 Posts + Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 3,906 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Originally Posted by Halo Here is my take from a Saints fan perspective... NFL launches NFL Network in 2003 Hurricane Katrina Immediately after Tom Benson claimed the Saints facilities were damaged beyond repair and he set everything in motion to move the Saints to San Antonio. Commissioner Tagliabue along with other NFL owners stopped Benson and Saints from moving. Roger Goodell becomes commissioner in 2007 NFL Network begins to become a PR mouth piece for the NFL commissioners office Rediculous player suspensions start Player misconduct not handled internally but in the public eye Patriots caught wiretapping into Jets lockerroom - public specticle Thursday Night Football comes along.... More public PR disasters, Goodell becomes even more powerful Bountygate - Where former commissioner Tagliabue had to return to mediate and release players from suspensions because of made up evidence. Players were about to bring the NFL to its knees in federal court. Blah blah blah - drama drama Concussions - NFL knew about them then get busted and start changing all rules. More drama Deflategate - more Goodell drama Tom Brady suspension - more Goodell drama Colin Krapinjack starts boycotting America flag before games and it's allowed (even though U.S. Olympias stood for the U.S.S.R.'s national anthem during the cold war, players protest their own country's flag - unsportsmanlike...) So really the recent protest and allowing politics to start every game is only the latest B.S. that fans have to put up with watching the NFL. To me, there's a very consistent pattern involving the de-evolution of the game of American Football since Roger Goodell became commissioner. And Qbrees9 is right - the market is saturated. Way too many MNF, TNF, SNF games. GIVE IT A REST NFL. Even I get tired watching games. There's no question that the NFL has had one PR disaster after another. The train wreck that is Roger Goodell has been, I would say, well documented. But when specifically talking about this protesting crap, there has never been a time that I am aware of where there has been such a sudden drop in ratings. The NFL has been gradually watering itself down for years. I absolutely agree with that. But allowing these protests is, by the numbers I see, the worst thing that has happened to the league in a long time, and maybe ever. Halo likes this.

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burningmetal 1000 Posts + Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 3,906 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Originally Posted by Danno I can only speak for myself, but I've stopped watching most games because of the anthem protests. I have read that many others are too. Hollywood is taking a hit as well. People are finally sick of their crap. Another reason I'm sick of it is all of the in your face crap and stupid celebrations after every play. And its bleeding over into NFL promos and commercials. I have watched a grand total of maybe 5 minutes of the NFL that wasn't a Saints game this season. I haven't really talked to many people about what they think but I can certainly believe that a lot of people are fed up, all over. I have lost a great deal of interest over the years due to the lack of what I consider "real football". The league just doesn't have the lure and mystique it once had. Too much mediocrity and highly restrictive (often confusing) rules. But up until now, there didn't seem to be a noticeable drop in ratings or attendance. You can tell the difference when people are truly pissed off.
	If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.

10-07-2016, 03:34 PM	#10
stickman 1000 Posts + Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Gonzales, LA Posts: 1,603	Re: Evidence Shows Results of NFL Boycott as Ratings Plummet Originally Posted by burningmetal As for what Chris Jackson did, he definitely took a large amount of heat for that, and it still comes up. But that was one incident, and it was basketball. This is far more widespread, and it's happening in a much more popular sport. So people are sick of it. It was more than one incident, and like Kap, it took a couple of games before people even noticed. I think what he eventually did was decide, since he was refusing to stand during the anthem for religious beliefs, was to just pray while the anthem was being played. It kind of died down after that.

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