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Week 6 of the NFL Reveals Several Nearly Empty Stadiums As Fans Continue to Leave the NFL
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:44 pm
"The NFL likely hoped for a return to normalcy for Week 6, especially after Commissioner Goodell’s call to “move past the anthem controversy,” and address the issue in detail at league meetings on Tuesday. Instead, what the NFL got was a return to what has become the “new normal” in the age of anthem protests: empty seats.
Throughout the league, stadiums could be seen with thousands of empty seats at kickoff, and, in some cases in the middle of the game.
Here is a pic with several empty, or near empty stadiums at kickoff on Sunday:"
Note, that the Jets played New England on Sunday, meaning there should have been a big crowd for that game. The Texans, Atlanta, and Baltimore are also very relevant teams with relatively loyal fan bases. Yet, thousands upon thousands of fans no-showed or didn’t buy tickets for those games.
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This post was edited on 10/16/17 at 5:46 pm
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Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:45 pm to Volkosoby
What was the Tv rating for the last week?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:46 pm to Volkosoby
Kickoff pics are cool.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:46 pm to Volkosoby
Poor product
70 inch HD tvs
political BS brought to football
All a recipe for empty seats
70 inch HD tvs
political BS brought to football
All a recipe for empty seats
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:47 pm to Volkosoby
Play stupid games....
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:48 pm to Northwestern tiger
quote:
quote: Credit Suisse lowers its price target and earnings per share forecasts for Twenty-First Century Fox, citing Fox's poor Sunday NFL ratings. "NFL ratings [are] weak so far. ... This was negatively impacted during the first 2 weeks by hurricane disruption, but is disappointing given the soft comps – if ratings do not improve materially, we see a potential headwind to domestic advertising revenues in Q2/Q3 '18," the firm's analyst writes.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:49 pm to Volkosoby
So what you're saying is that demeaning your customer after years of abusing them financially while diluting your own product isn't a winning strategy for customer retention?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:50 pm to Volkosoby
I dont follow the NFL and would assume attendance is typically like this for these teams. How often do these NFL games sell out? and fwiw I dont agree with them kneeling or protesting.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:52 pm to kingbob
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So what you're saying is that demeaning your customer after years of abusing them financially while diluting your own product isn't a winning strategy for customer retention?
Nah, it's racism.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:54 pm to momentoftruth87
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How often do these NFL games sell out?
If they don't sell out at least 80% of their games, their games get blacked out, i.e. they aren't shown on network TV, and if one lives in the geographic area where they would normally get that team's games, they're blacked out on NFL Sunday Ticket too. If owners continue to struggle to get fans in the stands, then they'll REALLY be hurting.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:56 pm to Volkosoby
I'm done with them. I could care less about their league and screw their entitled players and owners. They've screwed their fans for years in a number of ways. They've pushed it too far.
Maybe we can get college football players to reconsider leaving early without earning their degree.
Maybe we can get college football players to reconsider leaving early without earning their degree.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:57 pm to Volkosoby
I get your point but I don't understand the pictures.
Texans game and Jets game looks sparce but the Ravens and Falcons games look sold out.
Texans game and Jets game looks sparce but the Ravens and Falcons games look sold out.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:58 pm to kingbob
Under Tags the NFL thrived. Goodell came in and completely changed the game.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:58 pm to kingbob
Maybe a stupid question, but this Sunday I noticed the Chicago game wasn't on the Sunday ticket guide till about 10am. Did this have anything to do with it or just something else?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 6:09 pm to Volkosoby
None of those pics are accurate and none were even close to “nearly empty”
Posted on 10/16/17 at 6:11 pm to 20MuleTeam
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None of those pics are accurate
Wait, wut?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 6:12 pm to Volkosoby
I figure ratings and attendance must be off, for no other reason than it's not being reported.
If the NFL was surviving this episode unscathed, the media would be announcing it as a failure for trump.
If the NFL was surviving this episode unscathed, the media would be announcing it as a failure for trump.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 6:12 pm to Ancient Astronaut
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Under Tags the NFL thrived. Goodell came in and completely changed the game.
Yep. All of this was under Goodell:
To head off CTE litigation, new safety rules were implemented that made the product considerably less interesting.
Rather than leaving player discipline to teams, Goodell pushed for an NFL wide conduct policy.
During the most recent round of collective bargaining negotiations, players accepted the conduct policy which made Goodell judge, jury, and executioner in exchange for reduced practice times.
Reduced practice times have seemingly resulted in reduced player conditioning, increased on-field injuries, and less cohesiveness between players. Reduced practice time means players who joined the league more recently simply have had less time to develop their skills when compared to older QB's (Brees, Rodgers, Manning, Brady, etc). Offenses and defenses have had to dumb down, simplify, and become less diverse as a result.
Pushed for ever increasing penalties for celebrations.
Negotiated licensing deals which have more than tripled the costs of official jerseys since Goodell started. This has created a massive black market for counterfeit jerseys that has grown to be possibly even larger than the official one.
Created an incredibly inconsistent policy for teams honoring causes on their uniforms.
Forced the national anthem to be played after teams come out of the locker room instead of before.
Most egregiously, while college football, MLB, the NBA, and all other sports leagues were making their games more accessible to fans, the NFL stuck with a completely antiquated distribution method which prevents fans from watching or streaming most games legally without shelling out tons of extra money.
Goodell did not simply allow competing sports leagues to pass the NFL by via complacency and innovation by rivals. Goodell has made move after move which has effectively destroyed his own product. The fact that it took this long for the suicide to result in empty stadiums and cratering ratings is a testament to just how popular and culturally ubiquitous the NFL was under Tags.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 6:14 pm to 20MuleTeam
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None of those pics are accurate and none were even close to “nearly empty”
CNN Reports: All of them had larger crowds than Trumps inauguration!
This post was edited on 10/16/17 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 10/16/17 at 6:23 pm to Scoop
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I get your point but I don't understand the pictures.
Texans game and Jets game looks sparce but the Ravens and Falcons games look sold out.
You serious Clark? The new stadium has red seats and there is a shitload of empty red seats.
This post was edited on 10/16/17 at 6:24 pm
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