Another reason to not watch football

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JoshuaIsLord said:
But the real issue, is that no one really cares whether you watch football or not. If you are a football fan, you are going to watch it regardless. If you are indifferent or not a fan of Football, then you probably will not watch it. NOBODY CARES REALLY.

UNLESS you happen to belong to one the 25,000 households that make up the Nielsen Family that determines what 318,000,000 plus people are going to watch next year.

I know Nielsen Ratings like the back of my hand.
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i have been a fan since superbowl 2. last year, i went to different sports bars every sunday to watch multiple games at the same time. i have not watch an nfl game this year. it does matter to some of us.

how many are like me i don’t know or care but my sunday nfl is now saturday college.
 
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i have been a fan since superbowl 2. last year, i went to different sports bars every sunday to watch multiple games at the same time. i have not watch an nfl game this year. it does matter to some of us.

how many are like me i don’t know or care but my sunday nfl is now saturday college.
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Like I said before, in the whole scheme of things, the decision of the individual to not watch the game will have no affect on next years airing of games. The only people that control what we watch next year is the Nielsen Family.

Here is how things work.
a) Network evaluates the Nielsen Ratings. ( using code I helped write for 3 years )
b) From those ratings they determine how much they can charge for advertisement spot.
c) NFL put out bids for 3 blocks of airing ( 1 Block of Monday night airing, 1 Block of 2 or 3 airings, and the remaining Block of the remaining games )
d) ESPN won the 3rd Block by being the highest bidder and the Monday Night Block
e) ESPN then pays the NFL the monies promised
f) NFL distributes those monies equally to each of the teams.
g) Those teams use those monies to pay the players.

Now if you really wanted to affect what is aired next year? Boycott the products that are advertised by ESPN and also Boycott, the products that are advertised by Fox during their football games. That is only real power the individual has, but that power has to be exercised en mass
 
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JoshuaIsLord said:
Like I said before, in the whole scheme of things, the decision of the individual to not watch the game will have no affect on next years airing of games.
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I think I heard today ESPN is down sizing–laying off employees… something might affect the airing of next year’s games…?
 
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JoshuaIsLord:
Like I said before, in the whole scheme of things, the decision of the individual to not watch the game will have no affect on next years airing of games.
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I think I heard today ESPN is down sizing–laying off employees… something might affect the airing of next year’s games…?
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i can’t say as i’m sorry. after jemele hill called on watchers to boycott dallas cowboy sponsors; i followed her advice and boycotted the nfl and espn. maybe a lot of people followed her advice…
 
petra22 said:
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JoshuaIsLord:
Like I said before, in the whole scheme of things, the decision of the individual to not watch the game will have no affect on next years airing of games.
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I think I heard today ESPN is down sizing–laying off employees… something might affect the airing of next year’s games…?
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ESPN’s NFL contract runs through the 2021 season. Unless there’s an early termination clause, you probably heard that ESPN is considering not bidding on the Monday Nigh Football package in the next round of negotiations.
 
I’m 100% for people boycotting the NFL. Tickets prices are way down! Keep protesting!
 
Racist for believing it is disrespectful to kneel in protest during the anthem? Misunderstanding perhaps. I
can understand that perspective. But racist? ok.

You know every time you use that slur you are creating a bigger backliash against political correctness?
 
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In Australia too there has been a push by some people to introduce victim politics into sports and this has attracted criticism also. It seems to be a determined policy to go into aspects of the culture that had previously been free of that ideology/religion.
 
If someone else picks up the Monday night football it will be interesting to compare ratings.
 
good grief; i am a veteran as well; you are one bitter person, shipmate
 
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The kneeling thing has to stop. I’m a football freak and I’m starting to think it is because the 49er’s keep kneeling that they are losing. Haven’t won a single game. Shame shame shame.
 
the nfl has become boring, stupid, politically correct & a waste of my time on sunday

i listen to it on the radio in my car on sunday whilest i do my errands

maybe i’ll’ve gotten interested again once the playoffs start

we shall see what we shall see

otherwise could care less
 
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Interesting take.

The more I thought about it, the more I realize it’s just a bunch of spoiled rich people and this was the last straw for me. It might different if the NFL didn’t have so many off the field problems, but I think its ridiculous for unionized millionaire players and billionare owners who get taxpayer-funded public stadiums to act like they are part of these poor, struggling communities when they won’t move there because they know they’ll get robbed if they do.

I know what this is about, and frankly, each case is different, but the “hands up don’t shoot” nonsense bothers me more than anything.
 
They’ve been slipping, although not so much in a huge way. But enough for the mainstream media to rush out article insisting the ratings drop has nothing to do with the national anthem protests.
 
They’re not “disrespecting the vet.” They’re protesting injustice. You may not agree with the way they are doing it, but that doesn’t justify spreading falsehoods about what they’re doing.
 
They could stand on the stadium roofs for the national anthem but nothing will help the Bears.
 
What bothers me about this is that they’re taking a perfectly normal sign of respect, kneeling, and trying to make it an act of protest. Kneeling is a sign of submission, not protest.
When we kneel or prostrate ourselves in front of the Eucharist, it is not in protest but in submission. Anyone kneeling in front of a monarch is not doing it out of protest.
 
The norm for the US Military when standing indoors during the Anthem is to stand at attention.

He didn’t have a cover on and was probably in the VIP box, hence why he stood at attention and not holding a salute.
 
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