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Fox Sports host and Former NFL player Emmanuel Acho: 'I'm glad sports TV ratings are down'
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:00 pm
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:00 pm
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Viewership of the 2020 NBA Finals on ESPN was down 51% overall from last year; Game 3 was the lowest-rated NBA Finals Game 3 on record. The NHL Stanley Cup Finals on NBC were down 61% from last year. In baseball, the 2020 ALCS and NLCS were down 30% overall (least-watched ALCS on record), and the first two games of the 2020 World Series also hit record lows. The 2020 Kentucky Derby on NBC was down 49% from last year, and the U.S. Open tennis tournament (men’s and women’s) on ESPN was down 50% from last year.
Even the reliable ratings juggernaut NFL was down 12% through the first five weeks of its season. (The 2020 WNBA season was an exception, up 15% from last year; NASCAR ratings are down just 1% from last year.)
Whatever the cause of the broad decline, if you ask former NFL player turned Fox Sports host Emmanuel Acho, it’s a good thing.
“There are bigger things going on than sports right now,” said Acho in an interview at Yahoo Finance’s virtual All Markets Summit on Monday. “I'm glad sports are down. And I'm a sports guy. You can cut this for my bosses, for the world to see. There's a presidential election going on. There's a pandemic going on. I would hope to God that a game—which all sports are, is a game—are less important than lives. So when people are like, ‘Oh, sports are down,’ I'm like, bravo. Because at least that shows me that we have our priorities right in this country. Sports will pick back up. They always do.”
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Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:02 pm to Bench McElroy
Would love to see him try to explain the correlation between not watching sports and saving lives.
And also the correlation between the presidential election and watching sports, as if 99.9% of the country doesn’t already know who they’re voting for.
And also the correlation between the presidential election and watching sports, as if 99.9% of the country doesn’t already know who they’re voting for.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:03 pm to Bench McElroy
frick that oppressed millionaire
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:05 pm to Bench McElroy
So because a pandemic and an election are occurring we shouldn’t watch sports? I don’t get the logic here.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:05 pm to tigerfan88
quote:you must be misreading. Or maybe I am
Would love to see him try to explain the correlation between not watching sports and saving lives.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:08 pm to Bench McElroy
Try to wrap your head around this:
The vast majority of people in the sports media actively hate sports and try to torpedo it, degrade it, mock it, and root for it to fail at every turn.
How much sense does that make?
The vast majority of people in the sports media actively hate sports and try to torpedo it, degrade it, mock it, and root for it to fail at every turn.
How much sense does that make?
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:09 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:
“There are bigger things going on than sports right now,” said Acho in an interview at Yahoo Finance’s virtual All Markets Summit on Monday. “I'm glad sports are down. And I'm a sports guy. You can cut this for my bosses, for the world to see. There's a presidential election going on. There's a pandemic going on. I would hope to God that a game—which all sports are, is a game—are less important than lives. So when people are like, ‘Oh, sports are down,’ I'm like, bravo. Because at least that shows me that we have our priorities right in this country. Sports will pick back up. They always do.”
It's always weird when someone argues against their own employment.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:10 pm to Bench McElroy
While I understand what he's trying to say, logically it doesn't track. You can be perfectly safe while watching sports, and you can care about the presidential election while watching sports.
I would argue sports getting back on track is leading to some normalcy, which could be the difference between someone ODing or committing suicide or not.
I would argue sports getting back on track is leading to some normalcy, which could be the difference between someone ODing or committing suicide or not.
This post was edited on 10/28/20 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:18 pm to Jcorye1
quote:
While I understand what he's trying to say, logically it doesn't track. You can be perfectly safe while watching sports, and you can care about the presidential election while watching sports.
I would argue sports getting back on track is leading to some normalcy, which could be the difference between someone ODing or committing suicide or not.
100% this
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:21 pm to castorinho
He says “games are less important than lives.”
Which in a vacuum is an accurate statement, but there’s no correlation between viewing sports on television and whether or not people die of covid-19.
He seems to be implying that the decrease in viewership is somehow proportional to saving lives from covid. Without even getting into the “how serious is covid really” debate, I fail to see how watching or not watching sports correlates at all to controlling covid-19.
It’d be one thing if he was arguing against playing sports or allowing in person attendance. I would hotly disagree but at least I’d somewhat understand the argument. But he’s talking about watching sports on tv.
Which in a vacuum is an accurate statement, but there’s no correlation between viewing sports on television and whether or not people die of covid-19.
He seems to be implying that the decrease in viewership is somehow proportional to saving lives from covid. Without even getting into the “how serious is covid really” debate, I fail to see how watching or not watching sports correlates at all to controlling covid-19.
It’d be one thing if he was arguing against playing sports or allowing in person attendance. I would hotly disagree but at least I’d somewhat understand the argument. But he’s talking about watching sports on tv.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:28 pm to Champs
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millionaire
He was a bottom of the roster LB for like 2 years. Probably not.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:28 pm to Bench McElroy
It'll be racist oppression when he gets laid off.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:28 pm to Jcorye1
quote:Right
While I understand what he's trying to say, logically it doesn't track. You can be perfectly safe while watching sports, and you can care about the presidential election while watching sports.
This dude's entire job is dedicated to sports. He's basically stating that, of all people, he first and foremost is not paying attention or dialed into what's going on in the world. Unless he's saying he can be all things sports in his job and still care about the world, but heaven forbid you sit down to watch a ballgame a couple of times a week, and you're not as smart as he is so you can't possibly watch a couple of ballgames AND care about what's going on in the world.
Unless he's not covering sports? But he works for Fox Sports, so I don't see how he's not. I don't know who that is.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:33 pm to Bench McElroy
He’s so insufferable. Uncomfortable conversations was such a joke. Hey, watch me talk to celebrities to boost my career.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:33 pm to Bench McElroy
Any means necessary for the marxist cause
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:41 pm to Bench McElroy
Yes, he is correct. It's always a good thing when people are stuck inside watching TV but ratings are down.
Is this guy serious?
Is this guy serious?
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:44 pm to PEEPO
quote:
The vast majority of people in the sports media actively hate sports and try to torpedo it, degrade it, mock it, and root for it to fail at every turn.
How much sense does that make?
Most of these idiots have an inferiority complex in that they want to cover "real" news.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 2:44 pm to Bench McElroy
His argument doesn’t even make sense, but that’s not surprising.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 3:02 pm to Bench McElroy
The tards on the poli board will eat this up.
Posted on 10/28/20 at 3:11 pm to tigerfan88
In that specific point I thought he meant lives as in people are busy with other shite. Not in the if it saves one life type thing.
But then again looking at the whole message, wouldn't be shocking if that's what he meant
But then again looking at the whole message, wouldn't be shocking if that's what he meant
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