The NFL currently the least liked sport

[DandyDon1722]

A very vocal minority

Seems like it's always right around 30% of everything - it's the same people.

 

[jchap]

The ratings say otherwise

 

[jazzcat22]

Honestly, Jazz - if the commercials bother you that much, just DVR it and wait 15 minutes before the game starts and you skip over all of them. I don't understand the consternation with technology the way it is. With Netflix, Amazon Prime and DVR commercial television is almost a thing of the past with me.

The commercials do not bother me.
It is the premise that they claim they want to speed up the time of the games. But the time is from all the commercials. So they mess with the game product itself and take away actual plays, as opposed to just reducing the commercials.

So they start the clock sooner, to save a few seconds, not to mention all the past rules they changed for this purpose also. But yet they never reduced the commercials, but put on the premise that they did.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

It's popping up on several news sights.
It also states that the "core" fans is down a whopping 31%........and the owners want to extend Goodell??

Forget about these "minor" details Roger, stick with what's really important to you like sticking it to Zeke Elliott on a made up charge.

What is a news sight? That's the real question here...

 

[Cmac]

Me and the Sunday Ticket are loving it.

 

[Rockport]

It's popping up on several news sights.
It also states that the "core" fans is down a whopping 31%........and the owners want to extend Goodell??

Forget about these "minor" details Roger, stick with what's really important to you like sticking it to Zeke Elliott on a made up charge.

Definition of fake news.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

For the record, concussions in soccer are as big of a problem as it is in football.
There are studies that show this.

Link? I can't see the incidence rate being as high.

CTE and other football linked neurodegenerative diseases also arise due to the effects and trauma of repeated hits, not just concussions.

Also, as another poster mentioned, you cut out headers, that goes a ways to help.

 

[windward]

It's popping up on several news sights.
It also states that the "core" fans is down a whopping 31%........and the owners want to extend Goodell??

Forget about these "minor" details Roger, stick with what's really important to you like sticking it to Zeke Elliott on a made up charge.

It's not the least liked At all...

 

[Fletch]

It's popping up on several news sights.
It also states that the "core" fans is down a whopping 31%........and the owners want to extend Goodell??

Forget about these "minor" details Roger, stick with what's really important to you like sticking it to Zeke Elliott on a made up charge.

Not in my household.

 

[Echo9]

Link? I can't see the incidence rate being as high.

CTE and other football linked neurodegenerative diseases also arise due to the effects and trauma of repeated hits, not just concussions.

Also, as another poster mentioned, you cut out headers, that goes a ways to help.

"Of all the athletes who returned completed questionnaires, 34.1% of the football players and 46.2% of the soccer players had experienced symptoms of a concussion during the previous season. Only 16.7% of the concussed football players and 29.2% of the concussed soccer players realized they had suffered a concussion. "
http://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed...s_Among_University_Football_and_Soccer.5.aspx

“Concussion rates in all fall sports in 2011 − including soccer, field hockey and volleyball − mirrored the football findings, with 1.9 concussions reported for every 1,000 exposures. Those numbers also fell within the range of concussions reported during the eight-year period.”
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/concussion-rate-remains-steady

It may not be a one to one comparison, but the danger is significantly underreported (by the media) when compared with football. There is also at least one study that explains that "headers" are not the main cause of concussion.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1126775/

And a few more with some supporting evidence.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/191458
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0363546510392326
http://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed...uropsychological_Impairments_Following.6.aspx
http://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed...s_Among_University_Football_and_Soccer.3.aspx
http://www.ncaa.org/health-and-safe.../do-female-athletes-concuss-differently-males
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources...league-practice-plan-tackles-concussions-head
http://www.ncaa.org/static/champion/gray-matter/#sthash.3SEGAz8J.dpbs

 

[Jake]

It's popping up on several news sights.
It also states that the "core" fans is down a whopping 31%........and the owners want to extend Goodell??

Forget about these "minor" details Roger, stick with what's really important to you like sticking it to Zeke Elliott on a made up charge.

Protests don't appear to be hurting NFL ticket sales

Not only have fans not stopped going to games, but they're watching on TV more than they did last year. Despite Trump's claim that TV ratings are down, the overall figures for the past two weeks say the opposite. 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.