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Title: NFL ticket sales plummet 17.9%
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Washington Examiner
URL Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n ... es-plummet-179/article/2635955
Published: Sep 28, 2017
Author: Paul Bedard
Post Date: 2017-09-29 12:45:15 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 1836
Comments: 26
The National Football League is feeling the impact of the "Trump Effect." Ticket sales since he called on team owners to fire players who take a knee to protest the National Anthem have cratered. The online ticket reseller TickPick told Secrets that sales have dropped 17.9 percent, far more than the usual Week Three fall. From TickPick: "We have seen a massive decrease in NFL ticket purchases this past week in comparison to years past. Week 3 seems to usually have less ticket orders than week 2, but this year ticket purchases are down more than 7 percent from this time last year," said TickPick's Jack Slingland. "While we can't specify if this decrease is due to the president's comments, player and owner protests, play on the field, or simply the continued division of consumer's media attention, the conversation around the NFL this week has focused on the president's comments as well as the players' and owners' reaction. As viewers continue to abandon their NFL Sunday habits, both the number of ticket sales and the purchase price of tickets will drop," he told us.
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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Yeah. It could be any of those things. And the sound of hooves could be zebras.
New polling FWIW from DailyCaller: A new poll shows that the favorability rating of the NFL among Donald Trump supporters was nearly cut in half after more than 200 players kneeled during the national anthem last week. Morning Consult conducted the survey, and the results are a very bad sign for the NFL. They released the following data in a press release to The Daily Caller: On September 21, 25% of Trump supporters said they had a very favorable view of the NFL and 11% had a very unfavorable view. As of Sept 28, those numbers have dramatically changed with 33% of Trump supporters say they have a very unfavorable view of the NFL and 16% report having a very favorable view. Dropping from 30 percent to only 17 percent in a week is a massive red flag for NFL management. Any smart businessman can look at those numbers and realize the league is now in full crisis mode. . . . Just counting those Trump voters only, this is a disaster. The S.S. NFL has hit the iceberg head-on.
Well, I don't know. According to a new HuffPost/YouGov survey, a majority of the public, 54 percent, disapproves of his (Trump's) response, with 42 percent strongly disapproving. Just over a third approve. I mean, we're talking Huffington Post and yougov.com. Two bastions of impartiality and fairness. (http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/tabsHPNFL20170925.pdf))
Whenever Trump is involved, I've started to assume that people are lying to the pollsters. Try to explain the election day polls predicting a historic landslide loss for Trump, right up to the evening of election day. Put the word Trump near any poll question and I start to doubt any results.
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NFL’s Brand Favorability Drops To Lowest Point Since Morning Consult Started Tracking: The NFL’s net favorability has dropped from 30% on September 21 to 17% on September 28.
#8. To: Tooconservative (#4)
#10. To: misterwhite (#8)
Well, I don't know. According to a new HuffPost/YouGov survey, a majority of the public, 54 percent, disapproves of his (Trump's) response, with 42 percent strongly disapproving. Just over a third approve.
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