Mayweather vs Pacquiao is killing the NFL 's draft Week

[Silver Surfer]

This fight is significantly bigger than the NFL Draft

Don't kid yourselves

How do you measure "bigness"?

From several online sources, the fight might pull 4M pay per viewers vs 46M for the draft:

http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/0ap2...draft-watched-by-a-record-457-million-viewers

 

[Manwiththeplan]

Yea, if the NFL even thought they could charge for it, they would

 

[LatinMind]

Not to mention The Avengers opening Friday. Way to much excitement packed into a small time-frame.

What avengers isnt out? I saw it last week

 

[JBS]

How do you measure "bigness"?

From several online sources, the fight might pull 4M pay per viewers vs 46M for the draft:

http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/0ap2...draft-watched-by-a-record-457-million-viewers

This is an awful comparison

 

[AbeBeta]

I'm actually in Vegas right now. Every idiot in the world is here!

 

[Silver Surfer]

This is an awful comparison

I asked you how you measure it. I gave you one metric. You gave me nothing. Try again.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

I have more interest, by far, in the UDFA signing period than I do that fight.

I agree with you on that, that being said I will watch the fight as I look through potential prospects haha

 

[locked&loaded]

Watching two light weights punch each other in the head for 12 rounds isnt all that exciting. Light weights just dont have the knockout power.

 

[ABQcowboyJR]

Let me know when people pay $100 to watch the draft on tv

Let me know when people pay thousands of dollars to watch it in person

The real question is how much more money is the NFL making off the draft with it not being pay per view.

 

[DFWJC]

200,000 people expected to be there tomorrow night in Chicago.
That fight is getting dwarfed by national coverage of the draft. ESPN has shows going all day long.
Get real.

 

[DFWJC]

You are nuts...nobody is paying $100 to watch the NFL Draft

This isn't at all the same.
Why don't you just say the latest fad concert has 100 crap tickets, so it's bigger than draft too.
Oh, maybe the enemies are bigger too.

Come on, the has bee discussed for hours everyday for more than a month now.
The fight is not in the same universe popularity wise

 

[AsthmaField]

Seattle is the type of city where I'd find a bar playing the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight and people would say, "Can you turn off that fighting stuff. We're trying to talk?" I kid you not. I can't wait to get out of this place.

That is just insane.

Tell them to go drink their Starbuck's Double ***Hole Latte and shut the hell up.

 

[AsthmaField]

I'm actually in Vegas right now. Every idiot in the world is here!

That would explain why the Commanders Message Board is slow right now...

 

[Risen Star]

You are nuts...nobody is paying $100 to watch the NFL Draft

I'd pay it in a second.

You have to be brain dead to think that fight is bigger than the NFL draft. The NFL is the King of all sports in this country. That fight isn't even on the radar.

 

[Risen Star]

I think it makes the weekend even better....all the draft will be done. Some will be happy, some will be depressed and then you have a great fight to turn to and we all can root for the little underdog to beat the most overrated piece of **** boxer ever.

I wouldn't pay a dollar to watch that fight but I'm expecting Mayweather to dominate his inferior opponent.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

I wouldn't pay a dollar to watch that fight but I'm expecting Mayweather to dominate his inferior opponent.

Boxing vs Football OLOLOL!


Yawnnnn a light weight fight, routing for the upset though.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

The fight is a huge event, but I don't think it will have a single bit of effect on the draft. Not even in the same ballpark.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

If the two events were both on free tv, I guarantee the draft would have at least twice the viewers.

 

[cej757]

If the two events were both on free tv, I guarantee the draft would have at least twice the viewers.

I doubt that. The draft would lose viewers after the first 3 picks.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

I doubt that. The draft would lose viewers after the first 3 picks.

Huh? Hardly anyone will leave after the first three picks. People who watch the draft watch it all. And what about when the fight is over in a couple rounds and you have dead air for the remainder of the time the draft is going on?