‘Thursday Night Football’ Ratings Crash to Season Low
Faced with stiff sports competition, ratings for the NFL’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcast of the Arizona Cardinals and the Denver Broncos crashed to a season low.

Faced with stiff sports competition, ratings for the NFL’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcast of the Arizona Cardinals and the Denver Broncos crashed to a season low.

For those of you who loved the NFL’s color rush uniforms, we have some bad news. For the other 99.9999 percent of you, we have great news.

While NFL ratings have dipped the last couple of years, their television rights are still a hot property.

The NFL has struggled mightily this year to get people to watch their primetime games, as the ratings from the Week 15 edition of Thursday Night Football continue to come in, it’s clear that those struggles will continue until the end of the year.

A group of TV executives is scrambling to solve the growing problem of crashing ratings for the National Football League by cutting games to end the perceived “over-saturation” of football on TV.

The NFL just learned a tremendously useful lesson, that will serve them well if they choose to continue to apply it. What is that lesson? Simply this: if you don’t protest, more people will watch your games.

Looking exactly like the bunch of surly, sullen, spoiled babies they are, during Thursday night’s NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, the players might have all chosen to be muscle-bound pouters while locking arms, but… BUT!… those very same surly, sullen, spoiled babies were all standing for the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Charcandrick West was playing for Joe McKnight. Tyreek Hill was playing for the fans chanting his name. The Chiefs defense was playing for its injured leader. Everybody on the Kansas City sideline was playing for control of the AFC West.

The big websites, just like the big networks, engage in a bidding war over broadcast rights to NFL games.

The National Football League adds NBC as a broadcast partner for Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017. The network joins CBS and the NFL Network in airing the games.
