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General Category => Sports => Topic started by: Pompano Gambler on September 27, 2016, 01:34:12 PM
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It is starting to look like disrespecting the country during the national anthem is accomplishing what the concussions, domestic violence and deflategate could not do–drive down television ratings for the National Football League.
Through two weeks of football the NFL’s television ratings are down across the board. The drop in ratings and viewership is unprecedented in recent years and has occurred during the protest of the national anthem, started by San Francisco 49ers backup QB Colin Kaepernick. Just last year some opined that the league’s ratings had no ceiling. That appears to be false.
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The presidential wars aren't helping. There's also a bit of saturation: Sunday, Monday and Thursday.
Ratings rebound after November 8. HC victory, and non newsworthy sanity shifts cable news viewership back to NFL games.