Florio: Early Season Ratings Decline Continues for NFL

[Bill Lee]

Thursday Night Football clearly isn't going to help ratings, LOL!

TEN 27, JAX 0 at the half and it's not even that close. If the NFL didn't have the BS rule that a successful replay ruling still takes 10 seconds off the clock TEN would be up 31-0.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

The latest from Lord Goodell:

Goodell on ratings: “We don’t dismiss any theory”

Asked by Gary Myers on WFAN’s Chalk Talk if the league has reached any conclusions regarding the reduction in ratings, Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “No, and I don’t think anybody can do that.”

Goodell added, after Myers rattled off various possible explanations for the decline (election year, quality of games, fans fed up with off-field misconduct, too many penalties, and the national anthem protests), “We don’t dismiss any theory, if you want to call it that.”

 

[The Boston Patriot]

^"The Emporer has no clothes."^

 

[Tuck]

"Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered."

- Mark Cuban on the NFL's greed

 

[Hammer of Thor]

The NFL's solution to over-saturation and game quality that are contributing to the ratings decline:

NFLPA bracing for eventual push for 18 games

The NFLPA expects the league to make a renewed push for 18 regular-season games, PFT learned earlier this month. Once a fairly regular talking point from Commissioner Roger Goodell, who had developed a habit of publicly trashing the quality of preseason play in an effort to nudge the 20-game format from 16-and-4 to 18-and-2, Goodell hasn’t mentioned the subject in a while. He last addressed the subject in May 2013, telling reporters that “all options are on the table,” including the addition of regular-season games and the expansion of the playoffs.

Neither has occurred in large part because the players don’t want more football. The ongoing TV ratings slide suggests fans don’t want more football, either. But some believe that the drop in ratings will actually make the NFL more intent on growing the inventory of games.

 

[oldrover]

The NFL's solution to over-saturation and game quality that are contributing to the ratings decline:

NFLPA bracing for eventual push for 18 games

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

 

[Koma]

Exactly. No one is out there saying "You mean I can see a Jacksonville-Houston or Tampa Bay-Tennessee game I couldn't see in the past? Sign me up!"

 

[The Gr8est]

Exactly. No one is out there saying "You mean I can see a Jacksonville-Houston or Tampa Bay-Tennessee game I couldn't see in the past? Sign me up!"

And that is why the Omissioner is going after the Pats.

If he can destroy the Pats then people won't know what excellent football looks like.

Then fans will watch his crappy games not knowing how much they suck.

Great plan Roger!

 

[PlanB]

The latest from Lord Goodell:

Goodell on ratings: “We don’t dismiss any theory”

Goodell on Deflategate: We dismiss every theory.

 

[deroc5050]

I'm just going out on a short limb here and saying that TNF ratings were down this week...

 

[ANGR89]

Anyone seen the actual numbers for that horrible Thursday night game?

 

[captain insano]

^"The Emporer has no clothes."^

^"The Emporer has no brain"

 

[NashuaPats]

Goodell on Deflategate: We dismiss every theory.

Or: We dismiss the consensus explanation from physics professors from our nation's best universities.

 

[deroc5050]

Anyone seen the actual numbers for that horrible Thursday night game?

NFL Week 8 Finals: How Do You *Think* Titans/Jaguars Did? — Sports Media Watch

Actually not the lowest rated game of the season. 5.1 million viewers.
The lowest rated goes to Giants/Rams in London 3.7 mil

 

[ThatllMoveTheChains!!!]

NFL Week 8 Finals: How Do You *Think* Titans/Jaguars Did? — Sports Media Watch

Actually not the lowest rated game of the season. 5.1 million viewers.
The lowest rated goes to Giants/Rams in London 3.7 mil

I'm sure someone as smart as Rog will come up with a solution.

 

[AtomicDawg]

The World Series has finally overtaken an NFL game in ratings for the first time in 13 years. Eat it, ****dell.

World Series Game 5 crushes Eagles-Cowboys in Sunday night TV ratings

The Sunday night game between the Eaglesand Cowboys got crushed in the ratings by Game 5 of the World Series. According to the Sports Business Journal, the Indians-Cubs game pulled in a 15.3 overnight rating, which was 32 percent better than the 11.6 rating for the Cowboys game.

 

[meatface]

Are people still blaming this on Kapernick? It's been 8 weeks what's the excuse now?

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[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Monday Night Football down again

If the NFL’s TV ratings were a baseball player, he’d be batting ninth. In a National League lineup. (I know a little bit more about baseball than you think.)

The game between the Bears and Vikings generated the lowest overnight rating for a Week Eight Monday night contest since ESPN acquired the package in 2006. Prior to that, ABC televised Monday Night Football to much larger numbers.

I hope these billionaire owners are suffering like we did during their witch hunt...it would be great if this is just the beginning of the bleeding.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Sadly the greedy owners are not suffering...yet.
Who IS suffering is ESPN, etc. who sell advertising priced according to expected ratings.
Who (what media orgs) will be around to bid up (Heh!) the next set of TV contracts?
THEN the billionaire owners will start taking it in the shorts.

 

[The Gr8est]

NFL Ratings Decline In All But One of Last 26 Primetime Games - Breitbart

Well, well......

"
Based on the 27-0 score, most people believed that the late September Thursday Night Football game between the Patriots and the Texans accomplished nothing more than Bill Belichick once again proving his brilliance, as he annihilated a then 2-0 football team with his third string quarterback.

Unbeknownst to all until now, that early season matchup accomplished perhaps an even more impressive feat by becoming the only primetime NFL game this year that did not decline in ratings from last year."