Wall Street Journal: The NFL Is Losing Its Core Audience, a WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds.

[micnificent28]

10 hours ago, RealisticPanther said:

Why don't you just smoke a joint and accept life for what it is: not fair. That is my advice. A lot of people get blown up in war and come home with no help. No one's out there doing anything for any of us. There's better conversations I'd rather have in my life than what's wrong with it.

People like you are a part of the problem and effort is wasted trying to get you to see differently. Good day sir.

[RumHam]

Someone brought to my attention that yes there's no doubt people are watching less and even this super bowl took a major hit like i thought it would, but people aren't watching the games over cable anymore. They're streaming it through third party sites or using kodi. That adds up. That's on the cable companies.

[RealisticPanther]

1 hour ago, micnificent28 said:

People like you are a part of the problem and effort is wasted trying to get you to see differently. Good day sir.

That's your opinion, my opinion is people like you are part of the problem. So like i said from the beginning...

[thefuzz]

This thread went about as well I would have expected.

I have a few ideas as to why this dinosaur is gasping a bit, and why it's not quite time for extension.

1:  America is consuming it's entertainment a lot differently than we were 10 or 20 years ago...hell a lot different than 4 years ago.

2:  Politics.  There are plenty who were offended by the kneeling, and there are plenty who are offended by the stress these teams put on local politicians to fund and upgrade stadiums.  Towns/Cities could be using those tax dollars soooo much more effectively.

3:  Over saturation.  Between fantasy, Thursday, Sunday, Monday games, NONSTOP talk radio and podcasts, entire columns being devoted to football coverage, etc...we have lost our appetite for it.

4:  Injuries, especially to the brain.

5:  Quality of play, and officiating...along with a very stop and go feel to every game.  There is no flow, and games are taking far too long, especially with commercials every 9 seconds.

6:  Responsibilities.  Men aren't doing what men did 40 years ago.  It's not OK to abandon the wife with the 2 little ones so you can go to the golf course all day Saturday, and hit up the bars with buddies for football all day Sunday.  That's just not how the world works any longer....it was for my fathers generation...but not ours.

 

IMO those are the biggest reasons for the coughing....but keep in mind, this dinosaur is still King, even if he is a little sick.

[General_Purr]

Yup. Because no one is being fuging honest to each other. Politically wise the left will disregard facts and say yeah yeah but but its not REALLY declining, and the right will easily become tired of the media pissing them off and become anti NFL because of what it portrays. You can blame the divide on media, and the culture of whats "cool" or who your favorite reality star is siding with. Its becoming rare to find a nonpartisan, big picture, stoic person who can look past the politics and the crowds of wave riding bullshit.

Take a couple weeks off football and grown men in middle class America trying to survive working overtime.. the NFL isn't an "escape" anymore. Its more of the same rhetoric they don't want to hear. Imagine working 60 hours a week coming home to watch Monday night football only to see a hour of pre game show talking about how the player with 2 DUIs and sexual assault, getting paid millions, the top 1 percent of the WORLD, complaining about their rights and how they are downtrodden and habitually oppressed while the average guy is not praised, universally loved, not getting free endorsement of high dollar products, paying full taxes, breaking even or going in debt after putting food on the table, kids in school. They have an option not to watch, its negativity in their life seeing guys who were adored their entire lifes complain and blame the person in the IKEA lazy boy who just wants to see a Post n Go for a touchdown.

 

I see all sides of why people are turning away from watching the NFL. Its becoming a non stop argument on the way over saturated football talking heads show.

Its a fuging hassle to sit through an entire game because of the presentation. You have sideline reporters with those phony journalism voices coming on during a 3rd and short talking about Doug Baldwins psychological evaluation of his local Mayer or oh poo Andrew luck is just NOW breaking news getting a piece of athletic tape put on his inner pinky. You have commercials telling you what to believe and you must think this way to be acceptive of whoever is the flavor of the month, you have these attention breaking, frustrating stop of plays via slow ass referees reviewing in super slo mo and analyzing which grass blade hit the football first. 

You have 2 guys in makeup in a booth every 30 seconds sucking off whoever the most popular player on Instagram is at the time.

 

It seems like the gap of competition in the NFL will only widen, will become more like the NBA where everyone is "friends" and players are recruiting other players, schemes will be exposed, if you are conservative and repetitive you will lose.

You'll see the NFL just cut off trying to cater to middle aged men, bad move, and hire a bunch of interns who have a Soundcloud to make their promos and social view. Meanwhile you censor and hide the fact the majority of these guys are telling each other to fug off on the field and trying to injure the star player(fug you Denver broncos)

Instead of a balanced view of this being a mega sport and we want men, women, z x, sloth, turtle gender, marxist iPhone Surname Jr, or whatever the fug you are to come together and watch and support the man in the arena, meanwhile not hiding that the dude who just got a pick 6 little brother just beat cancer and is playing his ass off for him, or hiding the fact that damn that dude who just sacked the QB just got off free from a domestic issue and for going 195mph in a 35 downtown LA.

Just don't sugar coat this poo and let all the whispers consume the talk of what really makes sports awesome, which is coming together for something in a collective energy and a collective respect for one another. Yeah we need rules and precedents.

 

[PandaPancake]

9 hours ago, thefuzz said:

 

IMO those are the biggest reasons for the coughing....but keep in mind, this dinosaur is still King, even if he is a little sick.

You forgot threatening someone over a misunderstanding. Let's pretend this is one

[Davidson Deac II]

21 hours ago, Matthias said:

I don't think we should really care one way or the other about the NFL losing it's audience.  We are talking about wealthy people losing or gaining money, most of the same background.  Why should any of us care about that?  Now, football has always been a gladiator sport.  Only now do we know it's having a negative impact on the players' brains.  This is a dying sport, and it is what it is.

Just out of curiosity, if you feel that way, then why post here.  Its a Carolina Panthers site, you are helping the dying sport hang on a little longer.  

[djp14]

15 hours ago, General_Purr said:

Its a fuging hassle to sit through an entire game because of the presentation.

 

Starting watching the Red Zone channel a couple of years ago, mostly for fantasy football purposes. Now it's hard to sit through one game.

[Matthias]

On ‎2‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 8:30 PM, Davidson Deac II said:

Just out of curiosity, if you feel that way, then why post here.  Its a Carolina Panthers site, you are helping the dying sport hang on a little longer.  

It is what it is.