HOW BOUT THOSE RATINGS!?

[TheRed]

19 minutes ago, Cookie Lyon said:

Some of these responses are sad and predictable.

I had a good laugh reading the obligatory "both sides" political posts.

You know they probably said the same thing after Charlottesville too.

[4Corners]

1 minute ago, TheRed said:

I had a good laugh reading the obligatory "both sides" political posts.

You know they probably said the same thing after Charlottesville too.

buckle up dude. this is going to be a very scary four years. 

[FakePlasticTrees]

1 hour ago, ickmule said:

I think you are wrong. Head over to any Facebook thread about the players kneeling and the majority of folks posting are tuning out over this. People need to stop trying to be politically correct and get their heads out of the sand.  Plenty of people are tired of these over paid players disrespecting the flag and the people that lost their lives keeping said players free so they can make the living they do playing with a ball. 

It seems to me that the right to protest is vitally important even if one disagrees with the motivation for the protest. However, the fact that these protests are occurring at work does place it under the control of the employer which would be the individual teams. It put teams in a tough spot. While a team cannot force someone to stand for the national anthem, they could require that the player stay out of sight while the anthem was played. This would have probably just increased the attention and rancor.

It has never been clear to me what the national anthem has to do with the matter protested. Thus, even if you agree with the protesters, you can disagree with how the protest is manifested. 

This always had more of a "look at me" aspect that was somewhat counterproductive and even somewhat illogical. It somehow made Kaepernick relevant just as he was losing relevance as a player. The irony is that, upon closer inspection, he has become persona non grata and only relevant as a protester. His waning talent is simply not good enough to overcome the attendant hullabaloo that travels with him.

[KillerKat]

I stopped watching other games the last few years after how the league has constantly shitted on the Panthers time and time again. Haven't watched another game, other than the occasional playoff game, since 2015.

[PurityControl]

Thursday night football should just go away, especially this early in the season when it’s still summer.

Game comes on at 5:30PDT my time I’m either working or the weather is nice & I’m at the beach or outside I don’t want to be inside watching that poo.

NFL thinks they can just throw a game on whenever and fans are supposed to drop everything and watch.

C’mon

 

[4Corners]

5 minutes ago, saX man said:

Ding Ding Ding

Games are expensive with little incentive these days.  Especially when cities are taking the prime tailgating spots away with another mixed-use mid-rise and concession prices are absurd as Del Mar's for a horse race.     

On top of it, there is a general football fatigue in this country.  It's been a staple of the social zeitgeist and I feel it's lost an edge to a degree for a variety of reasons.  A lot of it has to do with the game has evolved with stoppage time, oversaturation, and also, just trends in general.   

Man i love going to games too. But, our spot where we tailgate (near Draught) is $25 to park. In addition to the the case of beer I will bring and the random selection of food that I bring in which half will go to waste. Tickets for me and my wife are another $$75-1$150. Add in the five to seven $7 beers I will drink while in the stadium and another $10 snack for my wife. And then Win or Lose I'm gonna pop in to a bar with my friends after the game to catch the 4p game.

Or I can just sit at my house or my buddies house and watch the panthers game with cheap beer and cheap food, sit on a nice ass couch and watch the games on a 60 inch TV. 

[4Corners]

2 minutes ago, PurityControl said:

Thursday night football should just go away, especially this early in the season when it’s still summer.

Game comes on at 5:30PDT my time I’m either working or the weather is nice & I’m at the beach or outside I don’t want to be inside watching that poo.

NFL thinks they can just throw a game on whenever and fans are supposed to drop everything and watch.

C’mon

 

man as much as I thought I would never say this - I def think they need to reconsider the Thursday night game. I'd switch a game to Saturday night but there is probably some sort of gentleman's agreement between corrupt NCAA and corrupt NFL that NFL won't compete with college FB games. NFL game would smoke NCAA game in ratings during primetime Saturday.

[jasonluckydog]

The NFL was competing with Big Brother in my house that night, my better half switched it back to the game when it was over.

[jasonluckydog]

How about doing away with the Anthem all together?  Don't really need it, the anthem is more of an Olympic thing.

[PurityControl]

7 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Man i love going to games too. But, our spot where we tailgate (near Draught) is $25 to park. In addition to the the case of beer I will bring and the random selection of food that I bring in which half will go to waste. Tickets for me and my wife are another $$75-1$150. Add in the five to seven $7 beers I will drink while in the stadium and another $10 snack for my wife. And then Win or Lose I'm gonna pop in to a bar with my friends after the game to catch the 4p game.

Or I can just sit at my house or my buddies house and watch the panthers game with cheap beer and cheap food, sit on a nice ass couch and watch the games on a 60 inch TV. 

Yup, Panthers came to Oakland last year, $1k for tickets for a family of 5, + parking beers etc. I can take a small vacation for several days for that amount of cash. & Levi is worse parking is $40 & miserable, you still have to foot it, & wait 1hr+ to get out, concessions are 2x the price then Oakland, the cons out weigh the pros for me.

I can have a full blown party at home for 1/4 of the cost, & not have to worry about driving, & all the BS

 

 

[cookinbrak]

I watched the game. It was close until NE safety got hurt.

I think either people didn't care about the teams playing or they were watching weather. Nothing political.

[Proudiddy]

Honestly, I feel and hope it's because people see what a sham the NFL is...  i think the season ratings were down across the board last year bc our Superbowl opened people's eyes to how rigged the games are.  In addition to that, I think people have grown tired of Goodell and the NFL's hypocrisy...  their inconsistency on punishments and enforcements of them, their repeated demonstrations of dishonesty, and the inherent toll the game takes on players all factor into it.  People are tired of their bullshit and greed, and to be honest, the game is dying.  In a couple of decades it will be a shell of itself.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

2 minutes ago, cookinbrak said:

I watched the game. It was close until NE safety got hurt.

I think either people didn't care about the teams playing or they were watching weather. Nothing political.

There was a poll on Yahoo sports where 44% of football fans said they would tune out if the national anthem protests persisted. You can stick your fingers in your ears and go la la la la all you want but it won't change the truth. It has nothing to do with race either. It's about millionaires protesting against their country and millions of people are turned off by it, regardless of the reason why they are protesting.

[Carolina Cajun]

There's just too much involved with football recently that isn't football related.  Ezekiel elliot, Kaepernick, drama/politics everywhere.  I don't think they realize that sports are what people go to in order to avoid those kind of things.  Even more so, it's what used to unite people, but it seems about as divisive as every other thing we deal with these days.  Whatever, I'll watch the panthers play, protests won't stop it.