The NFL's 2017 numbers are in and it's a dumpster fire. Down 10% for the year and down nearly 20% from the day kneeling for the National Anthem began.
So tell me again how protesting the National Anthem is a good thing?!?
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The NFL's 2017 numbers are in and it's a dumpster fire. Down 10% for the year and down nearly 20% from the day kneeling for the National Anthem began.
So tell me again how protesting the National Anthem is a good thing?!?
http://bit.ly/2D3XlyF
Less people watching someone else recreate? I see that as a good thing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Now...when's that national championship game? Anyone catch Oklahoma Georgia? What a barn burner...
I watched, I really wanted to see Oklahoma in the mythical national championship. I really like Baker Mayfield as he is the kind of leader I'd love to play for. You know the type... crass, wears his heart on his sleeve, can be a real ass, but always leads from the front and inspires those around him ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian in SLC
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Me too. Heckuva story. I wonder what the details are for his leaving Texas Tech? His signing up for OK without telling anyone...wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
What, he finished 4th, 3rd, then first for the Heisman three years in a row? Who else could they have given it too?
Coulda gone either way.
It's an inherent right. Just like it's a right for good "white folk" to march with tiki torches and chant "Jews will not replace us"Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Actually that depends, it's a right to protest, but the NFL could have stopped it by saying "not on our time". They could have penalized players for kneeling during the National Anthem, same as they can penalize for excessive celebration or unsportsmanlike conduct.Quote:
Originally Posted by DirkHammergate
The NFL made a huge mistake in not getting out in front of this the minute Trump was able to turn it into a matter of patriotism. The moment it became about patriotism and love of country the NFL and players had lost the battle.
Ohhh...Alabama...shankapotamus rex!
If they lose....holy goat, batman...
Revenge of the nerds!
Holeeeee f!
The Tide was not to be denied...wow...what a finish.
The epic choke club gets a new member...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ada000a328.jpg
The destruction of a brand....
Kneeling during the National Anthem at NFL games will be studied in business schools for years to come as what not to do. The NFL ratings are a sinking ship. If players kneel during the Super Bowl the ratings will be the lowest in years.
/bookmarked
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Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Gonna have to go with something drastic to boost those ratings. Maybe Justin Timberlake can grope another prominent female singer onstage. Or perhaps trot out Miley Cyrus and have her french kiss Ariana Grande mid performance just like Madonna and Britney Spears did so many years ago.
Steph Curry a choker? WeirdQuote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Snicker-snickerhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...eea083b08c.jpg
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Originally Posted by DirkHammergate
Oh yeah. Go back and look at the the NBA finals between Cleveland and Golden State. Lebron was on fire and putting Curry to shame. And every time Curry tried to save face he choked. Lots of people blame his selfish, greedy play for throwing the series with the Cavs.
Golden State was up 3-1 and that’s the biggest part of the choke job.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockgremlin
NFL considering major rule change regarding National Anthem.
http://dailysnark.com/report-nfl-con...m-next-season/
This isn't going to play out well for the felon league.
https://www.stripes.com/news/nfl-rej...nthem-1.507977
Houston Texans refuse to sign any players who protested the National Anthem.
http://dailysnark.com/report-houston...tional-anthem/
I am sure that will help them escape the cycle of perpetual mediocrity they have lived for the last decade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
This will be interesting... :popcorn:
NFL adopts policy to fine teams if players and personnel don't stand for national anthem
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/0...al-anthem.html
Why would they do this? Just last year the NFL assured us that disrespecting the flag was not harming the sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by accadacca
The NFL somehow managed to screw the unscrewable pooch. Many of the fans they lost are not coming back. I've seen this many times in other sports.
Combined with the concussion problem and the fact many people will no longer allow their kids to participate in tackle football the sport will slowly die. You have witnessed the high water mark of football. It's all just a long downhill slide from here. Enjoy...
/Bookmarked
I agree with the high water mark comment, but I doubt it has anything to do with the protest. Also I am interested in the "I've seen this many times in other sports". Even sports like baseball and hockey that basically cancelled an entire season came back eventually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Football, may never be quite as popular as it once was but it will be just fine for the next decade as more and more states start allowing legal betting. Gambling and fantasy football is really what skyrocketed the NFL over the past 15 years, and now that is about to expand all over the place (though never Utah).
Football's decline will be slow and steady, but you have seen it reach it's zenith.
Baseball, basketball and hockey never did fully recover from their strikes. Baseball is a hollow shell of what it once was. It took nearly a century for it's fall from America's past time but it fell.
This also reminds me a lot of Indy Car racing. At one time Indy was the world's largest single day sporting event, but internal conflicts destroy the sport in only a couple of years.
All major sports are dying, there is just too much competition from fringe sports that can now be followed through the internet. The NFL has been immune to this decline but the National Anthem screw up was the straw that finally broke the camels back and started the downhill slide.
Which is why the NFL is now desperately trying to put the National Anthem genie back in the bottle.
YMMV
I’m not convinced.
What will take over as the sports Goliath?
Football will still be the big dog for the next 30 or 40 years but the concussion syndrome is football's cancer and it will claim it's victim soon enough. It's already begun, registration for youth football is at historic lows, partcipation in high school football is slumping.Quote:
Originally Posted by accadacca
You don't have to believe it, just remember while rocking in your chair at the old folks home when football is the new baseball that I told you so.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...904-story.html
https://syndication.bleacherreport.c...ayers.amp.html
https://www.athleticbusiness.com/hig...astically.html
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Originally Posted by accadacca
THUNDERDOME
You can also add boxing to the list of once huge sports that have fallen from grace. Boxing suffered the same fate as the Indy 500.
And why do we need a goliath sport?
Remind me again why they were kneeling? How often does this happen and get swept under the rug, when the guy isn't famous?
https://deadspin.com/milwaukee-polic...own-1826275081
Not saying we need a Goliath sport, just that the NFL holds that title until another takes it from them.
According to @SethWickersham there was no official vote on the national anthem policy at the NFL spring meetings.
A soldier who never knew and never will know me died for me so I can be free. The least I can do is stand for the National Anthem.
And when African Americans are as free as you and me, they will probably all stand as well. I'm guessing a good # of soldiers have served over the years to help defend our right to protest and dissent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
What the heck are you talking about? Please explain how blacks aren't as free as anyone else in our country.Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
Pesky 13th Amendment
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