NFL Ratings Plunge Again For Divisional Playoff Round
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DailyWire
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Joseph Curl |
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2018-01-16 12:18:07 by Tooconservative |
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| The NFL just can't buy a break.
Although there were a few decent games over the past weekend — including the crazy, last-second win by Minnesota — ratings for America's football league dropped once again.
Viewership has been down all year, due to both the player protests during the national anthem and a whole lot of boring games. But NFL owners were hoping the playoffs would end all that.
No such luck. The Wild Card round two weekends ago saw ratings drop 13% over last year (and the games were pretty crummy). Then last weekend, for the divisional playoff games, ratings for all four games fell to their lowest point in almost a decade, according to NBC. | The good news, if there is any, comes from the fact that the 21.8 rating generated by the Saints-Vikings in the late afternoon/early evening slot was only 0.1 lower than the 21.9 for Steelers-Chiefs last January, even though that game was played in prime time. The bad news is that the apples-to-apples comparison — the late-afternoon Sunday game between the Packers and Cowboys — churned a 28.2.
The Jaguars-Steelers game played at 1:05 p.m. ET posted a 20.4, the lowest overnight rating in that window in 15 years.
For the Saturday games, the 17.4 rating coming from Falcons-Eagles was down from last year’s 18.3 from the Seahawks-Falcons contest; that’s the lowest since Ravens-Titans in that same spot drew a 17.0 in early 2009. The 16.6 overnight for the Titans-Patriots game on Saturday night was the lowest since Cardinals-Panthers in early 2009. |
The NFL has pulled strong numbers for years, including Thursday and Monday nights, along with the two Sunday night games. But not so this year — the year of the national anthem protests. "Favorable" ratings for the NFL have dropped to 44% from 57% from the end of August to the end of September. During the same period, the "unfavorable" rating has risen to 40%, according to the Winston Group survey.
A recent survey also found that 33% of NFL fans have totally boycotted the league this year, according to SurveyMonkey and Ozy Media. | The survey then asked the football fans: “Did you purposely stop watching or attending NFL games this season for any reason?” 33% of respondents said yes.
That group, which the survey labeled as “boycotting,” was asked why, and was given multiple options. Note: Respondents were allowed to select multiple answers; they were not asked which was the biggest factor, just which factors contributed.
They answered as follows: 32% said they stopped watching or attending NFL games “in support of Donald Trump”; 22% said “in solidarity with players kneeling”; 13% said “no interest in the teams playing”; 12% said “in support of Colin Kaepernick”; and 11% said “news about traumatic brain injuries among players.” Another 8% said “games are boring.” 46% chose “some other reason.” |
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Poster Comment:
A bit more dancing on the NFL's grave.
So far, the boycotting fans are still refusing to return to the NFL. The NFL owners must be crapping their Depends, seeing their profitable franchises ruined over some crude and ignorant apes ruin their profitability over dumbass anthem protests.