The NFL canceled the last Sunday Night Football game of the season

[FakeNews]

The cancellation of this week’s Sunday Night Football is the capper on an especially challenging year for the NFL. Beyond the controversy involving players kneeling or otherwise protesting during the national anthem, which is almost certain to heat up again as the post-season and Super Bowl draw bigger audiences, the league has seen the impact of sexual misconduct allegations (one of which led to the Carolina Panthers going up for sale). What’s more, ratings for televised games are down 9% from a year ago.

http://fortune.com/2017/12/27/nfl-cancels-sunday-night-football/

 

[Luk]

http://fortune.com/2017/12/27/nfl-cancels-sunday-night-football/

Nice cherry picking, dipshit.

Sunday is, of course, is New Year’s Eve – and the way the playoff races have shaken out this year, there’s no matchup that has the high stakes the last game of the season usually offers. And with New Year’s Eve celebrations going on across the country, odds are few people would watch even if there was.

 

[Rightguide]

Nice cherry picking, dipshit.

Ratings are still down, angry short person.

 

[wickedpanda]

http://fortune.com/2017/12/27/nfl-cancels-sunday-night-football/

The Commie supporting NFL can cancel all the games until they get back to doing three things..... playing football, show the cheerleaders and not lecturing me about anything and that goes for the talk butt puppet announcers with their sjw issue of the week!

 

[Luk]

Ratings are still down, angry short person.

Why would I be angry when you give me so much joy, vette?

 

[Bert Notorius]

yet they showed
chicago/cleveland
christmas eve.

 

[Hypoxia]

TV viewers get what they deserve.

 

[kdawgaz]

They..........

They changed it a couple of weeks ago. lol

 

[Dribble]

They changed it a couple of weeks ago. lol

It takes several weeks for fox to pick up "news"

 

[Queefer]

yet they showed
chicago/cleveland
christmas eve.

Imagine that, on a night where families are together in a home. Football...pffft!

 

[MagicFingers]

I'm happy with this decision

I don't have to listen to Al Michaels struggling to make calls and Chris Collingsworth telling stories about every player who makes a play, in his worst "Glottal Fried" voice. I really do like them both but can't stand to hear them do a game. Just shut up and call the game!

 

[SissySalina]

Has anyone noticed the crummy job the officials have been doing calling the games lately?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Ratings are still down, angry short person.

And??

 

[Rightguide]

And??

Black anti-American players and weak owners are reaping what they've sown.

 

[Luk]

I don't have to listen to Al Michaels struggling to make calls and Chris Collingsworth telling stories about every player who makes a play, in his worst "Glottal Fried" voice. I really do like them both but can't stand to hear them do a game. Just shut up and call the game!

You don't know them personally and literally only know them from calling games on TV.

 

[Luk]

And??

And the ankle biting from the little yipper continues.

 

[FakeNews]

Is this the end of the NFL?

There was a time, not long ago, when the NFL was the most unifying public institution we had. No matter your political or demographic persuasion, the one thing you could find to talk about with someone was football. Richard Nixon and Hunter S. Thompson bonded over football, for crying out loud. Over the decades, the Super Bowl grew into the ultimate American spectacle, the last event that everyone in the country watched together, whether you cared about the game, the commercials, the point spread, or just Left Shark. You couldn’t avoid the NFL if you wanted to. Most didn’t.

Now, suddenly, the league that was once for everyone seems to be in crisis. Worse, it has no natural constituency. Liberals think it’s dangerous, classist, totalitarian, and cruel. Conservatives think it’s pandering, too “politically correct.” A lot of this is attributable, like so much else, to the president. Dozens of players were protesting the first two weeks of the season, but no one seemed to care … until Trump’s weekend tweetstorm from his golf club back in September. But the fact that we’re even framing this in political terms — the idea that a game in which people throw a ball and tackle each other has somehow become another thing for us all to yell at each other about from our ideological corners — is a large part of the problem. You can no longer watch the NFL without thinking of everything swirling around it off the field. The bigger problem for the league is: So many people just aren’t watching at all.

A few weeks ago, sportscaster Bob Costas told a group of students at the University of Maryland that “the reality is that this game destroys people’s brains” and that “the whole thing could collapse like a house of cards if people actually begin connecting the dots.” Costas is a smart man, and more than that, he is a survivor: One of the skills of his career has been understanding which way the winds are blowing and adjusting accordingly. For the past several years, he was the host of the pregame show for the most-watched NFL game every week, Football Night in America. He left the show this year and has been speaking out against the NFL ever since. For the past few years, it was reasonable to wonder whether defending the NFL was going to put you on the wrong side of history. It is becoming increasingly clear that that history is nigh.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/leitch-is-this-the-end-of-the-nfl.html

 

[FakeNews]

Sinking NFL viewership is threatening to crush ad sales

Average game viewership has fallen to 15 million this season, down from 16.5 million last year, and the lowest since 2008, according to data compiled by RBC Capital Markets.

The firm also finds that the league's audience is down on a year-over-year basis, and notes that it hasn't seen meaningful growth since 2013, when the measure climbed 5%. RBC says this has had an adverse effect on how advertisers view the prospect of buying time slots during NFL games.

RBC says possible reasons for the ratings skid include player protests, the NFL's ongoing concussion controversy, competition from politics, increased offerings from cable and entertainment providers, and an oversaturation of games.

http://www.businessinsider.com/sinking-nfl-viewership-is-threatening-to-crush-ad-sales-2017-12

 

[Luk]

*yawn*​

 

[jaF0]

I enjoy changing BB's full diaper bare handed.

I knew you'd eventually find something useful to occupy your time.

 

[Rightguide]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/leitch-is-this-the-end-of-the-nfl.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/sinking-nfl-viewership-is-threatening-to-crush-ad-sales-2017-12

I think it all boils down to the majority of Americans are not going to subsidize anti-American activity in professional sports. In the 97 year history of the NFL, it wasn't until 2016 that we ever saw any disrespect for America, it's flag, its Anthem, its veterans. Ntr until Colin Kaepernick decided to spit on them all and was quickly followed by a majority of black players. These players have turned the majority of Americans against the NFL.

 

[jaF0]

All that said, I'd have no problem with the demise of the NFL or any other major league. Or all of them.

 

[jaF0]

I think it all boils down to the fact that I'm a little teapot, short and stout. And an ignorant racist bastard to boot. And I lick BB's bum..

Finally, some truth.

 

[Rightguide]

I knew you'd eventually find something useful to occupy your time.

All that said, I'd have no problem with the demise of the NFL or any other major league. Or all of them.

Finally, some truth.

Bend over and spread'em, Luk wants to lick your brown eye blue.

 

[Luk]

I think it all boils down to the majority of Americans are not going to subsidize anti-American activity in professional sports. In the 97 year history of the NFL, it wasn't until 2016 that we ever saw any disrespect for America, it's flag, its Anthem, its veterans. Ntr until Colin Kaepernick decided to spit on them all and was quickly followed by a majority of black players. These players have turned the majority of Americans against the NFL.

Is it weird to be wrong about almost every single thing that you type?

"Majority of Americans". That's fucking dumb as all get out. First off, "most Americans" don't watch the NFL. Second, the vast majority who watched the NFL in 2015 still watch it today.

The "majority of black players" are not protesting/kneeling/whatthefuckotherbullshit although most of those protesting/kneeling are black.