Raise your hand if you do not work for the NFL and are allowed to express yourself in whatever way you please while you are on the job. Speak up if your employer allows you to protest and politick in front of the customers. Take one step forward if you can say whatever you want in front of your company’s clients while on the clock…
The massively disappointing numbers from Sunday’s Super Bowl continue to come in. The contest between the Patriots and Eagles drew an average of 103.4 million viewers, down seven percent from last year.
The NFL had high hopes that their all-important postseason games, would reverse the terrible ratings trend which has plagued the league all year long.
As the nation prepares to celebrate Christmas Day, it looks like Santa didn’t come to fill the NFL’s empty stadiums for the league’s Week 16 games.
The plague of empty seats which has befallen the National Football League reached biblical proportions this week, as teams continued to find it hard to fill stadiums.
The Week 13 edition of Thursday Night Football match-up between the Redskins and the Cowboys, featured two division rivals with matching records and slim, but palpable playoff aspirations.
With the NFL’s Week 11 wrapping up, it quickly became clear that football fans have found other things to do as photos still show hoards of empty seats in stadiums from coast to coast.
With the troubles facing the NFL’s cratering TV ratings, it is also important to note that fans are staying away from the stadiums, too.
In what has become one of the more predictable stories in all of sports, the NFL’s early games for featured plenty of empty seats.
It’s not necessarily news, that no one watches the Cleveland Browns. After all, Cleveland has lost 22 of their last 23 games and seems determined to set new marks for organizational futility. So the fact that the Browns can’t draw flies, shouldn’t necessarily cause alarm bells to go off.
As hundreds of NFL players puff themselves up as political activists, many fans are responding, but not how the “social justice” activists had hoped. Fans were already abandoning the NFL in droves, but now they are responding in anger in a myriad of ways.
One of the many results of anthem-protesting former quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s continued unemployment, has been the growth of the pro-Kaepernick protest movement. This movement has taken the form of active protest, speeches, or, simply wearing Kaepernick’s 49er jersey.
