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Exclusive poll: 62% of NFL fans plan to watch less football

Here is the attendance since the NFL expanded to 32 teams, other than a recession dip in 2009 to 2012 attendance is as high as it ever was in the NFL

2016 - 17.788 million
2015 - 17.509
2014 - 17.606
2013 - 17.510
2012 - 17.303
2011 - 17.252
2010 - 17.140
2009 - 17.282
2008 - 17.459
2007 - 17.597
2006 - 17.606
2005 - 17.250
2004 - 17.270
2003 - 17.068
2002 - 16.979
Your missing this years numbers. I have not done the math but looking over the numbers so far the ratings are down 10-15%

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Your missing this years numbers. I have not done the math but looking over the numbers so far the ratings are down 10-15%

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I caught two Browns games this season and that's six hours I'm never getting back.
 
They are politicizing their workplace. The government is doing nothing to stop them. Why do you create logically challenged arguments?

The government isn't the "anti-politics in the work place" SWAT team you can use to silence the people you don't agree with.
 
The government isn't the "anti-politics in the work place" SWAT team you can use to silence the people you don't agree with.
But the fans can and they are

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Your missing this years numbers. I have not done the math but looking over the numbers so far the ratings are down 10-15%

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This year isn't final yet so I'll wait until it's over before I make the comparison
 
This year isn't final yet so I'll wait until it's over before I make the comparison
So far overall ratings TV/Streams is down at least 10-15% from this time last year. I did not do the exact math but they are in that ball park and maybe even down a bit closer to 20%

Going into week 3 I know I read that tv revenue was down $200 million and week 3 numbers look similar to the 1st 2 weeks so it's not unreasonable to probably add another $100 million to that total going into this week.

There's is a total of about 21 weeks of football including post season play. So that extrapolate to them losing 2.1 billion in tv revenues if the numbers continue to trend like they are. That's not an insignificant number.

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The nfl is desperate to find an out that allows them to save face and neither the players or the fans are budging. The league is being starved into an unconditional surrender.

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The people who are boycotting are not football fans. They are Trump fans.
 
Maybe the boycotters will take some exercise instead, and lose some fat from their heads.
 
Why don't you provide me a statement from KC, the founder of this movement, which cites a specific instance of police racism as an example. While you are at it, can you explain what wearing the Fidel Castro T-shirt or police as pigs socks did to advance that cause.

If that is deemed to be terribly unfair (since KC is not exactly a brilliant policy maker) then perhaps supply the statement of another NFL player citing a specific case rather than some nebulous talking point of "racist police shootings" somewhere, at some time, in the USA.

Personally I found the officer Stockley case in MO to be a prime example yet it did not seem to spark the riots and national attention that the "hands up, don't shoot" fictitious event in MO did.

Colin Kaepernick on police brutality, the flag and the military - Chicago Tribune

This isn't difficult. There's plenty out there, you just haven't bothered to look. And please, let's not pretend Colin is the only person with this message. He's not a "founder" of anything. This is a very old problem, my friend.
 
Trump said not to watch football anymore, therefore I will watch as much football as possible.
Thats good the nfl is going to need your money. Hope you got lots of it.

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The NFL has a lot more problems to address besides this issue. If the NFL and its players want to address the equal treatment of minorities by the police I applaud them. But kneeling during the national anthem is not the answer. Use your power and money to provide lawyers for the people who you believe this is happening to. Expose and attack the problem at its source legally. Most police are decent people trying to do their best. Find the bad apples and make an example of them. That is the solution.
 
If you're giving up the sport you love because a few minorities use their free will before the game even starts to take a knee, that person is not a football fan, just an asshole that wants to try to force the NFL to enforce their political views on individuals. Why do you guys hate freedom so much?


I have not watched a professional football game in years in protest over the massive amount of money involved in professional sports. However if I did still watch I would not appreciate athletes making political stances while on the job. I do not purchase tickets for sports entertainment to watch someone make a political point. I have zero against what they want to do legally off the field in protest but on the field and on the job is not the place for it.
 
If NFL fans are such delicate snowflakes that a few players choosing to exercise a little freedom before the game triggers them this hard, they're not real football fans anyway.

Would you say that if they waved Confederate flags at the games?
 
They were protesting injustice, which is the greatest possible tribute to our flag.

Fascism 101: Conflate the government with "OUR TROOPS," conflate protest of injustice with disrespect for OUR TROOPS

It's fascist to show respect to the troops we lost?
 

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The government isn't the "anti-politics in the work place" SWAT team you can use to silence the people you don't agree with.

The government isn't interfering with the players at all, why are you inferring things that aren't there?
 
The people who are boycotting are not football fans. They are Trump fans.

You could not be more wrong they love our country and they don't like seeing players take a knee during the national anthem.
The NFL made a major mistake by allowing what happened. Many feel they are disrespecting our flag!!
 
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