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Title: Deflated: NFL popularity at new low, just 3 in 10 are 'favorable'
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Washington Examiner
URL Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ... -low-just-1-in-3-are-favorable
Published: Jun 1, 2018
Author: Paul Bedard
Post Date: 2018-06-02 15:25:53 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 6177
Comments: 21
The National Football League has done nothing to recover during the off season from it’s miserable popularity ratings that are now at the lowest ever. Rocked by the issues of players taking a knee during the playing of the National Anthem, overly long games, and scandalous players, just 35 percent say they have a favorable view of “America’s sport.” According to an Economist/YouGov poll taken May 27-29 another 47 percent have an “unfavorable” view of the NFL. What's more, only 15 percent called the NFL a "top interest," and 37 percent said that they are "Not at all interested" in the games. Many teams are already in early training camp and the season kicks off Thursday September 6 when the Atlanta Falcons play the 2018 Super Bowl champions Philadelphia Eagles. The new approval ratings follow a trend that Secrets charted last year in polling provided exclusively by the Winston Group and pollster David Winston. In August of last year, Winston surveys put the approval rating of the NFL at 57 percent. In September, it had dropped to 44 percent favorable. YouGov’s poll did find support for the new NFL policy on taking a knee. Under that rule, players who protest will be fined, though they can now stay in the locker room instead. However, the public is still evenly split on the issue overall.
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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
I'll stick with college football on occasion. More exciting sport IMO with more human error makes it interesting to me.
Its amazing how much more time I have since walking away from the NFL. Now if I could just stop blogging!!!! ;)
#4. To: Justified (#2)
You know, it does take quite a bit of time to keep up with the NFL. Lots of people have added up how much time they spent at it (not even counting their fantasy football habit) and talk about what a huge timesuck it was.
Yep. Millions of men have re-discovered Sundays by jettisoning NFL games. Blessing in disguise if you ask me. Like the end of good, listenable pop music (the late 1980s), the SJW culture-captains and elites are (purposely) managing to kill another American tradition and mainstay: The NFL.
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#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
Replies to Comment # 2. Its amazing how much more time I have since walking away from the NFL.
#18. To: Justified (#2)
Its amazing how much more time I have since walking away from the NFL.
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