NFL ratings plummet in Chiefs-
Texans season opener
by
Howie Kussoy
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/11/2020 4:17:04 PM
The NFL is back. Spread the word. Thursday night’s season-opening matchup between the Chiefs and Texans attracted 19.3 million viewers between 8 and 11 p.m. That marks a 12.3% drop from last year’s ratings, which ended with an audience of 22 million. Deadline noted that the key 18-49 demographic pulled in a 5.2 rating, falling from last year’s 12.8 mark. It is likely that multiple factors played into the drop, including social justice messages, which have been present, while audience sizes have reduced across all sports in recent months. An uncompetitive game—a 34-20 Chiefs win, during which they led
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SALady 9/11/2020 4:27:27 PM (No. 537825)
Go woke, go broke!!!!!!!
I will definitely continue to do my fair share to make sure that their ratings stay super low!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 9/11/2020 4:28:07 PM (No. 537826)
NFL - No Funds Left.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 9/11/2020 4:28:14 PM (No. 537827)
Unfortunately for Real American fans, it's not going to get any better. The whining multi-millionaires BLM crew aingoan donuffin but whine even louder until they get their way - which means whining themselves right out of job.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
red1066 9/11/2020 4:32:23 PM (No. 537833)
I didn't watch one second of that NFL game. When I heard what the NFL had planned and what the end zones were going to have printed in them, that's all I needed to decide not to watch. I also understand that the fans who were there also didn't take too kindly to overt racism BS, and booed when the NFL tried ramming this crap down their throats. Hopefully this is a wake up call not only to the spoiled players, but the NFL officials. Keep this crap off the field.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Avanti1 9/11/2020 4:33:58 PM (No. 537834)
The NFL lost many fans when they allowed their audience to be hijacked by Social Justice Warriors.
Players have a First Amendment right to peacefully protest; they have NO right to do so in a stadium full of people who paid to watch football. Any player could have rented the stadium on some other day and invited people to watch them protest but I doubt that they would fill many seats. The same goes for fans who watch football on some form of media.
The players are paid to attract fans and viewers. They are NOT paid to voice their political beliefs. By not following football, ticket buyers and media viewers are showing their disgust with the players and the NFL for allowing the players to act like petulant children.
They may never regain their fan base.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dbdiva 9/11/2020 4:35:32 PM (No. 537836)
Howie skimmed over "social justice messages" pretty quickly; he certainly didn't want to dwell on that but instead focused on other games being played etc.
He can't accept the fact that people watch sports to be entertained for a few hours. They don't want to be hammered with political messaging. That's predominantly the reason ratings are crashing IMO.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 9/11/2020 4:43:18 PM (No. 537845)
I'm so disappointed in Jerry Jones. I thought he was smarter than this!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HPmatt 9/11/2020 4:44:54 PM (No. 537846)
NY Post closed down yet? Who’s buying papers on sidewalks in NYC?
Many factors contributed.....stop lying to me....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DARling 9/11/2020 4:48:37 PM (No. 537851)
Maybe they will learn from this that their actions have consequences. Protest on your own time and give us back our escape from the rotten things going on in the world. Keep telling half of your audience that they're good-for-nothing racists who must repent and you will lose more viewers. Keep putting the names of thugs and criminals on your helmets and you will continue to look like fools.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/11/2020 4:55:55 PM (No. 537855)
"Show of unity," MA. Useful idiots like J.J. Watt don't realize that they are "unifying" against the flag and the national anthem.
24 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
jjs 9/11/2020 5:18:03 PM (No. 537866)
Still can remember sitting on the couch with my dad watching the ice bowl. My dad worked in the paper mills. Paper mills are all gone, he's passed away and now football is dead. All in a lifetime.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 9/11/2020 5:21:44 PM (No. 537868)
We didn't watch one second of the show, either. What i heard was when the teams held hands for "equality", i had to laugh. Every single one of those men on the field is making more money and has more opportunities than the vast majority of Americans. It's a farce.
The bad behavior, the unpatriotic or disrespectful behavior ought to have been soundly nipped in the bud. Keep your protests off the field, out of the workplace, out of the classroom, out of the lecture halls and auditoria, unless you have an invitation to present your views.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 9/11/2020 5:22:16 PM (No. 537869)
Can any of you protest while working or is that something that you do on your own time?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/11/2020 5:26:26 PM (No. 537873)
I recall when they came up with the name "The Houston Texans" and I thought they must have had a contest for that. Actually LMAO they did. I have lived in a minor state of embarrassment for years until we came up with The Washington Football Team. Thanx guys. Pretty slick. Now stop telling me I'm a racist (systemically) . Stop telling me that when a criminal gets shot it is a national emergency. Go to your local middle school football field and play. See if your parents show up to watch the game because frankly I have better things to do on Monday night like re-arrange my sock drawer.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/11/2020 5:39:46 PM (No. 537879)
They have another problem in that the fans they drive away will learn that they can do without the NFL. Actually, all the breaks for endless commercials were driving me away befoe all this kneeling foolishness. That was just the icing on the cake. Now, with the ability to record the games then speed by the commercials may wake up the advertisers when they catch on that they are not getting the eyeballs they pay big money for. This will be a major factor in the years to come and I can see them negotiating for lower commercial rates.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/11/2020 5:42:36 PM (No. 537884)
Not For Long is how viewership will be. I tuned in for less than a minute and saw it was a street protest disguised as a sports event. Buh bye....
15 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
singermom9 9/11/2020 5:49:56 PM (No. 537890)
Booing is the least we can do. Let's financially RUIN them. There are plenty of men who would love to play the game and get rich doing it. Let others achieve the American dream. The current players have had their chance and got to egotistical. The game is NOT all about THEM. Let them protest outside the game. I don't care what they do then.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 9/11/2020 5:54:58 PM (No. 537893)
Soon football will only be watched in airport concourses, just like CNN.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 9/11/2020 6:14:34 PM (No. 537910)
I was born in Green Bay and live 20 minutes South of Lambeau field. Lifelong Packer fan. I won’t be watching the NFL this year. It’s gonna be painful, but I can’t abide by what the NFL has done.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/11/2020 6:29:10 PM (No. 537911)
Once the NFL swung into politics to mollify their Black players, common sense would tell them that they are going to take a big hit as far as attending and watching fans go. Most Americans do not want to pay big money to sit in a cold stadium, or be bound to watch partisan political protests on TV, especially when they are connected to rioting, arson, assault, looting, the murdering of people and the general destruction of law and order. When most people go to a football game they expect a good diversion from the tough elements of everyday life and not an attempt to indoctrinate them into radical politics. The people who own and operate the NFL should know that by now.
22 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
KanCreeper 9/11/2020 6:33:52 PM (No. 537913)
Just Like many Americans, "I grew up with sports" If there was a game to play, match to watch... I was there! Watching what is going on in pro sports these days; I have no time for some over-paid athelete to 'preach' HIS PARTICULAR POLITICS to me having paid to see a sports event....The NBA, NFL, and any other sports consortium can go pound sand, I'll have no time or money for them! Thgey can go out in the street LIKE THE CURRENT STREET THUGS saying is "....Go out and preforn an unnatural act on each other......" :-(
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
gop_guys 9/11/2020 6:36:26 PM (No. 537917)
Bear in mind, no pre-season. Games have been delayed. Super bowl champs. Supposedly lots of pent up demand. Nope on all counts. JJ Watt has been hit in the head too many times. Why are they booing? Doi!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
49 Ford 9/11/2020 6:38:54 PM (No. 537920)
#11, may I take it that you and your dad were Packers fans? If so I imagine you were jubilant when Starr pulled off that quarterback sneak. I was a teenager then, an intense Cowboy fan, and slinked away from the living room couch broken hearted.
My point being - we older guys remember when it seemed worthwhile to CARE about that stuff. But the SJW's and spineless managements have turned the lights off- the party's over.
(You HAVE to credit Don Meredith for that, if nothing else:-))
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Change the name to the Kansas CIty Chefs and get a Food Network show!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
3XALADY 9/11/2020 6:51:32 PM (No. 537926)
I heard Nick Lowery, a football hall of famer, say this morning that the boo's were for the other team, not for the racial rantings.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
zzzghy 9/11/2020 7:17:03 PM (No. 537938)
It's pretty simple, really. The NFL is now the Negro Fatigue League and people are bored and leaving.
No mystery.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/11/2020 7:47:10 PM (No. 537948)
All of these people are college graduates, and their stupidity should be embarrassing, but they are oblivious to what's going on. They will come up with every excuse for the league failing, but will never admit it's their own doing.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/11/2020 7:59:51 PM (No. 537952)
You're just not worth it.
7 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
smcchk 9/11/2020 9:36:53 PM (No. 538001)
I am boycotting the NFL until there is racial equity on the rosters! Which means forever.
4 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
TJ54 9/11/2020 10:20:27 PM (No. 538021)
I want a team that looks like America! Fire 80 percent of the Black athletes!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
radrelic 9/11/2020 10:30:44 PM (No. 538028)
Ho hum, who needs the bums? Their must be some paint to watch dry. Of the flames of a crackling fireplace when the old movies on cable get too often viewed.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/11/2020 11:06:17 PM (No. 538050)
I was hoping thje drop would be much more than that, but I do have some friends who are addicted to watching the Negro Football League.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
watashiyo 9/11/2020 11:12:45 PM (No. 538054)
People or fans still watching the game are no different than those players who take the knee, raise the fist or do the lockers. They're all in the same infested gutter by attendance and association. You're either for them or for true American value. There's no in-between on this one.
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