NFL ratings down 7.5 percent for the season

[jterrell]

I didn't either. I came on the zone around 11:00 and read the game thread but that was about it.

ROFLMAO... as if it means anything that a Thursday night game between the Chiefs and Raiders wasn't watched by a Cowboys fan from Pennsylvania....

Tell me when you skip a Cowboys game.

I didn't watch last night either. Checked my fantasy scoring and that's it.
Sounds like I missed a good one but I'm not going to catch every game that occurs like most other people.
I'll catch Cowboys every game and occasionally others.

 

[jterrell]

Keep believing that Fairy Tale

The boycott is real and having an impact..... I hear 10-20 people a day say they done with the NFL

Right... and you run right to an NFL related message board to post all day.

Be about it, don't talk about it.

What a joke of a protest if you cant even shut up (virtually) long enough to prove your point.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

ROFLMAO... as if it means anything that a Thursday night game between the Chiefs and Raiders wasn't watched by a Cowboys fan from Pennsylvania....

Tell me when you skip a Cowboys game.

I didn't watch last night either. Checked my fantasy scoring and that's it.
Sounds like I missed a good one but I'm not going to catch every game that occurs like most other people.
I'll catch Cowboys every game and occasionally others.

I know plenty of people who stopped watching altogether. A few like me just watch their teams and no more. Don't care what other people do. That's me and considering how much I've quit watching current TV Shows, National news and other sports I can't say I would never give up the Cowboys. Not as Much fun as it used to be and when it gets too much I will quit and won't look back. Life's too short. I watch sports to have fun. In a year or two I might give it all up and probably will if all this crap doesn't stop.

 

[jterrell]

I know plenty of people who stopped watching altogether. A few like me just watch their teams and no more. Don't care what other people do. That's me and considering how much I've quit watching current TV Shows, National news and other sports I can't say I would never give up the Cowboys. Not as Much fun as it used to be and when it gets too much I will quit and won't look back. Life's too short. I watch sports to have fun. In a year or two I might give it all up and probably will if all this crap doesn't stop.

Let's be very clear.
The real loser here is you or anyone else who let someone rob them of watching NFL football.

This entire thing is a basic test of common sense.

There are a small percentage of people in any field unworthy of support.
Priests/Pastors, Teachers, Police officers, Military servicemen and women, Trash men, IT guys, small business owners... no group is truly immune.

If the bad guys in the NFL didn't turn you off long before now then it certainly shouldn't because a tiny number of players kneeled then were taunted and basically dared to do so so more players joined in and the idiotic people blamed them for it....

And again no offense but I DONT BELIEVE YOU.
If people cant stop posting they aren't gonna stop watching. Point blank and period.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

I got an idea.. how about you NFL abaters prove your mean what you way and stop posting.
If you cant stop posting how the hell do you expect anyone to believe you are going to stop watching?

huh? it's simple, watch your team and tune everything else out.

I'm glad and proud of the Cowboys players commenting and standing together on this.....

 

[jterrell]

huh? it's simple, watch your team and tune everything else out.

I'm glad and proud on the Cowboys players commenting and standing together on this.....

The NFL is profit-sharing.
Watching Dallas funds the league's teams equally. (as unfair as that is)

If your favorite college players go somewhere and you watch that team occasionally as well it does the same.

But at least you are honest. I give you that as opposed to people saying they are boycotting all while watching the games.
It's like the hippies who claim they are boycotting conservative businesses all while eating Chik-Fil-A in the Hobby Lobby parking lot.
Nothing more snowflake than boycotting.

And no worse political strategy than fighting with the NFL... who still has 9 of the 10 highest rated shows on TV since week 1.

 

[Nightman]

Right... and you run right to an NFL related message board to post all day.

Be about it, don't talk about it.

What a joke of a protest if you cant even shut up (virtually) long enough to prove your point.

I didn't say I was boycotting....... I have 18k posts on a football site...... anyone here is a fanatic

I was talking about normal people........ but keep waiting for the pop....... it will all make sense after that

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Let's be very clear.
The real loser here is you or anyone else who let someone rob them of watching NFL football.

This entire thing is a basic test of common sense.

There are a small percentage of people in any field unworthy of support.
Priests/Pastors, Teachers, Police officers, Military servicemen and women, Trash men, IT guys, small business owners... no group is truly immune.

If the bad guys in the NFL didn't turn you off long before now then it certainly shouldn't because a tiny number of players kneeled then were taunted and basically dared to do so so more players joined in and the idiotic people blamed them for it....

And again no offense but I DONT BELIEVE YOU.
If people cant stop posting they aren't gonna stop watching. Point blank and period.

I don't care if you believe me or not. I know how I've quit other sports and I know I can do it again. Considering how much I used to watch football and how little I watch now it won't be much of a stretch. College Basketball starts in a few weeks and I'll watch them. I'll give the NFL some time to fix things up. It is hard to just drop a sport you've followed for over 40 years but that's life. And if I do quit I probably won't post anymore. I'll quit cold turkey. And then you can say you were wrong. Of course I won't be here to read it. lol And we've already been robbed of our enjoyment of the game and there are many factors not just the subject that can't be discussed here.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

huh? it's simple, watch your team and tune everything else out.

I'm glad and proud of the Cowboys players commenting and standing together on this.....

and that's what I'm doing. The Cowboys absolutely did the right thing. Don't care about the rest of the league though.

 

[diefree666]

and that's what I'm doing. The Cowboys absolutely did the right thing. Don't care about the rest of the league though.

I used to root for the Bears some since I lived in the Midwest as a kid. And I always felt sorry for the Saint's so had a soft spot for them as well.

Now I could care less about any other team unless they somehow affect the Cowboys.

Those whining and crying about somehow we are being led by the nose on this are so full of it. Now maybe its a generational thing since I am an old fart but all the political crap now just piles on with the rest of the stupidity that is the norm for the NFL today from lousy officials to incredibly stupid rules like what supposedly is a catch now has pretty much destroyed any interest in the NFL as a whole. I am a boys fan until I croke but if things get much worse I will stop watching. That is my choice and mine alone. Those pissed about that can kiss my southern point of contact.

 

[Shinaoi]

For me it’s the authoritative nature of the owners and front office in combination with the refs. To many commercials and overt commercialization has also made it feel more like a product and less like a special event.

 

[Hoofbite]

Bigger decline from 2015 to 2016?

 

[Hoofbite]

I took in the game last night at local bar. The game wasn't on when I arrived. When I asked the bar tender for it, he said he quit watching specifically because of these issues. Luckily he still cut it on for me.

Sorry, not trying to get political or say it's right or wrong. Just acknowledging that people are actually tuning out because of it.

Some people probably are, but is that the driving force in the decline in viewership? Hard to think it is when ratings have been declining for more than just the 2017 season. A bigger drop occurred last season and I can't remember anyone talking about not watching because of the protest. If anything, people just summarized the issue as Kaep being an idiot and that was that.

 

[Lutonio]

Some people probably are, but is that the driving force in the decline in viewership? Hard to think it is when ratings have been declining for more than just the 2017 season. A bigger drop occurred last season and I can't remember anyone talking about not watching because of the protest. If anything, people just summarized the issue as Kaep being an idiot and that was that.

No, I don't think it's the primary reason at all. But I always thought people were full of it when they said the protests were pushing them away. Then I'm running into more and more examples of it.

 

[DFWJC]

lol at people posting on a cowboys board buying any nonsense that NFL viewership is really down.
it's not by any real margin. it's simply shifted in many cases to Kodi and Firestick.
streaming is real and sports has been the last bastion of a dead cable era.

i dont know a single person under 30 with cable. but they pretty much all use some form of streaming service.

and the NFL is not unaware of this. they have streaming deals going now and more coming.

I know at least dozen people who watch far less NFL due to various reasons. These are people I talk to regularly.
I think it is down, jt.
Maybe not the full 7.5% for reasons that you stated.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

There are tons of factors and yes I believe the kneeling is one of them but it's a very small factor. As in I believe the only people that it's caused to quit watching or attending are those who were already very close to doing so anyway, and just needed an extra reason to head out. They got that one and they quit.

The bigger reasons for it being down is that the product on the field isn't as good. Cutting practice time, no matter what some might think, has hurt the product.

Factor in that some big names have been going out this year, for the year, and that hurts without question.

Then of course there is the always ugly elephant in the room of the very piss poor officiating in the NFL that seems to get worse and worse every single year.

Lots of factors for why it's down.

And those speak nothing to the BS of how Goodell and the league are allowed to run their suspensions and the way they handle things that no doubt contributes to people being fed up with the NFL.

 

[Biggems]

The owners have done this to themselves. They should have stopped this after the first game he took a knee. Take a league-wide stance against that nonsense, and it is over.

The fans stand by the owners, support the players for standing, attendance and ratings don't drop as much.

As far as I am concerned, I don't care what they do.....except for the fact that they are ticking off and turning away the people who buy the tickets and merchandise, and they seem not to care at all.

I am shocked that the greedy, self-serving owners have allowed it to go this far. Losing any amt. Of money and just letting it happen, doesn't seem like their M.O........unless, they really aren't losing any money.

 

[Biggems]

There are tons of factors and yes I believe the kneeling is one of them but it's a very small factor. As in I believe the only people that it's caused to quit watching or attending are those who were already very close to doing so anyway, and just needed an extra reason to head out. They got that one and they quit.

The bigger reasons for it being down is that the product on the field isn't as good. Cutting practice time, no matter what some might think, has hurt the product.

Factor in that some big names have been going out this year, for the year, and that hurts without question.

Then of course there is the always ugly elephant in the room of the very piss poor officiating in the NFL that seems to get worse and worse every single year.

Lots of factors for why it's down.

And those speak nothing to the BS of how Goodell and the league are allowed to run their suspensions and the way they handle things that no doubt contributes to people being fed up with the NFL.

The last CBA screwed the fans, cause it took away a ton of practice time needed to perfect their craft.

Now we get crappy technique, tons of injuries, just bad play. Thursday night weekly games do not help.


I hate the officiating in the NFL.....it is just horrid and seems biased, one-sided, and reputation based.

 

[ghst187]

I'm sure it's all of the above. No doubt some are turning it off due to the protests. Although I think the bigger problem is the quality overall of the product and it's watchability. I've been weaning farther and farther off games... I just can't watch them anymore... too long.. too many stoppages...too much inconsistency in rules and officiating...and frankly there are no good teams anymore. The Pats keep winning but honestly they are crap outside their QB and coach and have been for a long time.
The constant promotion of fantasy football is ridiculously obnoxious and I can't stand hearing people talk about it all the time.
If I didn't love the DC so much I'd quit paying attention to it at all.
Or maybe I'm just old and crusty now....

 

[diefree666]

I'm sure it's all of the above. No doubt some are turning it off due to the protests. Although I think the bigger problem is the quality overall of the product and it's watchability. I've been weaning farther and farther off games... I just can't watch them anymore... too long.. too many stoppages...too much inconsistency in rules and officiating...and frankly there are no good teams anymore. The Pats keep winning but honestly they are crap outside their QB and coach and have been for a long time.
The constant promotion of fantasy football is ridiculously obnoxious and I can't stand hearing people talk about it all the time.
If I didn't love the DC so much I'd quit paying attention to it at all.
Or maybe I'm just old and crusty now....

I am probably older and crustier and I agree down the line.

Once the wagon starts going downhill all the extra weight makes it go faster. All the previous problems with quality of play an officiating and needless commercials and so on; then add on Goodell and all his crap and now the protests and everything starts accelerating.