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. |
NFL ticket sales plummet 17.9%
| Source: | Washington Examiner |
| Published: | Sep 28, 2017 |
| Author: | Paul Bedard |
| Post Date: | 2017-09-29 12:45:15 by Tooconservative |
| Views: | 3905 |
#1: misterwhite To: Tooconservative (#0)
Yeah. It could be any of those things. And the sound of hooves could be zebras.
misterwhite posted on 2017-09-29 12:56:28 Reply Private Reply
#2: Tooconservative To: misterwhite (#1)
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 12:58:32 Reply Private Reply
#3: misterwhite To: Tooconservative (#2)
Since 75% of the players are black, it's gotta be racism.
misterwhite posted on 2017-09-29 13:01:02 Reply Private Reply
#4: Tooconservative To: misterwhite, nolu chan, All (#1)
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.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 13:16:54 Reply Private Reply
#5: Tooconservative To: All, redleghunter, A K A Stone, Pinguinite (#0)
Thats the message a couple of the Titans star players have for any outraged fans threatening to turn their back on the team
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 13:40:57 Reply Private Reply
#6: Pinguinite To: Tooconservative (#5)
Pinguinite posted on 2017-09-29 13:46:25 Reply Private Reply
#7: Tooconservative To: Pinguinite (#6)
The smartest thing the owners could do is drag that idiot Goodell out, have him declare victory in the SJW protest against Trump, then have Goodell threaten and carry through on fining any player who fails to hand-over-heart for the anthem the full amount of what they are paid for that particular game. And include any other non-anthem protesting as well. No exceptions of any kind.
But I don't think they're that smart. At least, not yet.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 13:59:37 Reply Private Reply
#8: misterwhite To: Tooconservative (#4)
I mean, we're talking Huffington Post and yougov.com. Two bastions of impartiality and fairness.
(http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/tabsHPNFL20170925.pdf))
misterwhite posted on 2017-09-29 14:32:13 Reply Private Reply
#9: Pinguinite To: Tooconservative (#7)
I think the smartest thing they can do is simply declare that any player who does not stand for the anthem will not play football that day. The fans who are offended will not want to watch protesting players play, and that will accommodate them. They'd much rather watch a patriotic 3rd string running back try his best and not quite make it, than a protesting first rate running back score touchdowns. Especially if instead of scoring touchdowns, he decides to do stuff like drop passes because he's pissed at the quarterback.
Fining players is nothing, as players can suffer a $20,000 fine without losing any sleep over it.
It's reached the point where the NFL itself needs to take emergency action for the long term good of the NFL.
Pinguinite posted on 2017-09-29 14:48:24 Reply Private Reply
#10: Tooconservative To: misterwhite (#8)
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.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 15:00:06 Reply Private Reply
#11: Tooconservative To: Pinguinite (#9)
They do. But are they at the point of admitting it to themselves yet?
A few teams, yeah. The rest? Nope. And Goodell is gutless, leaving the NFL rudderless in the biggest crisis it has faced in many years.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 15:01:46 Reply Private Reply
#12: Stoner To: Tooconservative (#11)
Yeah, I bet that right now Goodell, playas, and the other brainiacs are all real proud of following kaperdick down the drain !!
Real slick move guys !
Stoner posted on 2017-09-29 15:36:16 Reply Private Reply
#13: Tooconservative To: Stoner (#12)
The schadenfreude is delectable but well-earned. : )
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 15:55:17 Reply Private Reply
#14: Dead Culture Watch To: Tooconservative (#0)
Snip: King of the Zulus, Goodwill Zwelethini, despairs of how South African blacks have done nothing but destroy the once impressive infrastructure built by white South African immigrants and their descendants. But on the larger world stage, no one will talk about how there are no successful black-led countries in the entire world.
Black People Shame Themselves
it is no surprise that in the absence of any healthy black nation in the midst of chaos, senseless wars, corrupted religiosity, violence, and economic collapse African and Caribbean people leave home en masse. They beg on the streets of Greece, prostitute in the red-light zones of the Netherlands, and make up 40 percent of the migrants flocking to Europe. As they turn up in these countries, helpless, unwanted, starved, or maimed, they are treated like dogs. Everywhere from Ukraine to India, nearly every day, black indignity, black helplessness, stares us in the face. And all we do, we who hold the platform can do, is scream racism! and court the sympathy of others. __ Chigozi Obioma in Foreign Policy
https://alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/why-blacks-destroy-everything-they-inherit/
Dead Culture Watch posted on 2017-09-29 16:47:38 Reply Private Reply
#15: nolu chan To: Tooconservative (#5)
I wonder if Goodell will even find that detrimental to the league.
nolu chan posted on 2017-09-29 16:59:18 Reply Private Reply
#16: Tooconservative To: Dead Culture Watch (#14)
I think that the incredible natural wealth and potential as the breadbasket of Africa makes Zimbabwe the most mismanaged black-led country. Of course, it's history mirrors that of South Africa.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-29 17:00:31 Reply Private Reply
#17: redleghunter To: Tooconservative (#5)
He will. I'll check to see if he's dropped on fantasy teams too.
redleghunter posted on 2017-09-29 21:38:57 Reply Private Reply
#18: Stoner To: Tooconservative (#13)
Me & you both !
Stoner posted on 2017-09-30 15:21:47 Reply Private Reply
#19: Stoner To: Dead Culture Watch (#14)
Yeah, really !!
Too stupid to realize they are shooting themselves in the foot !!
Niggers gotta Nigg !!!
Stoner posted on 2017-09-30 15:24:05 Reply Private Reply
#20: Tooconservative To: Stoner (#19)
LF really is an educational forum.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 15:58:44 Reply Private Reply
#21: Stoner To: Tooconservative (#20)
I have seen it used that way on other forums, thought it seemed appropriate.
Stoner posted on 2017-09-30 19:04:45 Reply Private Reply
#22: Tooconservative To: Stoner (#21)
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 19:16:11 Reply Private Reply
#23: Dead Culture Watch To: Tooconservative (#22)
https://cheekyvideos.net/murdoch/The%20Cruel%20Fate%20of%20Kekistan.html
Don't know why this won't link correctly. But, this is a classic already.
Dead Culture Watch posted on 2017-10-01 02:48:20 Reply Private Reply
#24: Tooconservative To: Dead Culture Watch (#23)
CheekyVideos: The Cruel Fate Of Kekistan
I dunno. The 1488 stuff is a huge turnoff to most people.
You can surf around and find other videos there via direct loading.
Murdoch at CheekyVideos: index of videos
Here's one, a takeoff on Back To The Future.
Back To The Faggot
In this, our trio travels back in time to Red Pill (awaken) the Beatles to stave off the downfall of Western civiliation. They get them to read Mein Kampf and the Beatles are totally into it. They return to the modern era where Beatles songs like Hey Jew have replaced their classic Hey Jude. With lyrics like "The minute you let Hitler into your heart, then you can start...".
I keep wondering how many people they think they can actually sell this to who are not already signed up to post at St*rmfr*nt.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-01 09:52:12 Reply Private Reply
#25: Dead Culture Watch To: Tooconservative (#24)
Having a very far right achieves that, just having the real conservative right viewed as being the tea party means there really is no shift occurring, since the middle really isn't there. With 1488 type shit, the middle is the tea party.
Dead Culture Watch posted on 2017-10-01 16:36:16 Reply Private Reply
#26: Tooconservative To: Dead Culture Watch (#25)
I see your point but I'm not sure it could ever turn out that way.
I think the alt-right is folding up across the board. Look at how pathetic and weird Gavin McInness has become with his videos and his Proud Boyz (or whatever they're called). I think he is taking the Fight Club route to just coming out of the closet as a full-blown queer.
TheLibertyConservative: Cucked By The ADL: Gavin McInnes Institutes Thought Control On His Proud Boys
The great supposed comeback of Milo Yiannopoulos was last week. It all got cancelled because he failed to secure competent organizers for his 4-day Berkeley event. He showed up with some sad little sign, gave a brief speech for YouBoob, disappeared. Then he shows up in Hawaii some hours later, marries some other dude but will not reveal on camera who he got sodomy-married to.
And Milo and McInness were the two Great White Hopes of the entire alt-right.
So alt-right as a hipster movement is dying due to incoherent disorganization and the odd tendencies of its gay or same-as-gay leadership. And the 1488 subcurrent of the alt-right can be no more powerful now than it ever was. Any growth seems stunted to me.
Anyway, I just don't see a path forward via that crew. It is not widening or shifting the Overton window at all. And I think alt-right will fall apart in coming months altogether.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-01 16:46:41 Reply Private Reply