The NFL playoffs can’t come quickly enough for Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The NFL’s regular season ended last weekend with its worst full-season viewership decline ever.
The number of TV viewers tuning into the league’s 108 national telecasts fell 9.7 percent from the previous season.
The decline brought the average TV audience per game to 14.9 million — down from 16.5 million the previous season, according to Nielsen.
That’s the lowest number of viewers per game in nine years — since an average 14.6 million fans tuned in during the 2008 season.
TV viewership of the once-seemingly invincible league is down nearly 17 percent in two years. During the 2015 season, an average of 17.9 million viewers tuned in.
That means Goodell’s NFL, which can still boast the most popular sport in the US, nonetheless lost an average 1.6 million fans per game last season — like having 21 games played in an empty stadium.
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The post-game scores and maybe some YouTube highlights are all I need or want. Sunday afternoons have become more valuable somehow.
ReplyDelete12:11 if you don't support the NFL then don't pay attention to any of the games or scores just forget the whole things even exists.
ReplyDeleteYup, that's what I've done. I used to win fantasy football leagues. Now I can't even tell you who's in the playoffs.
DeleteLol same here
DeleteIf you support the NFL in any way then you support thugs and criminals.
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ReplyDeleteThe owners signed Goodell, the architect of this debacle, to a long term extension of his already outrageous pay and benefits contract. 'Fans' will need to keep the pressure on; only thing NFL understands is cash flow.
Until the owners demand respect for our country or you are off the team, we have NO interest in it! These are mostly uneducated thugs making big bucks and have no respect for those that love this country and pay their salaries!!
ReplyDeleteIf you vote in any way for an elected official then you support thugs and criminals.
ReplyDeleteIf you watched the Cosby show in the 80s then you supported a pervert.
Etc, etc etc. You are too uptight. Chill out.
Don't vote, never watched Cosby, and don't watch the NFL.
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