A fiend of mine me ruined that she hadn't watched an NFL game in a few years as her life got busy but sat down this weekend to watch one when she saw a gigantic flying dong come across her screen. She rightly asked what happened to her beloved NFL and her question isn't the only such one out there. The NFL has problems and the writing is on the wall for the sport but nobody knows quite why. The ratings are down 10% year over year and everybody is scratching their heads to why
The ratings for the NFL are down 10% year over year, everybody is trying to figure out why
The election in general taking up everybody's attention
The debates going head to head with games
The biggest stars retiring, hurt or getting old (Brady, Calvin, ADP, Manning)
Concussions
Lack of celebration (No Fun League)
Too many TV timeouts
Too expensive to go to games
People turned off by the wife beaters and other thugs and criminals
The product sort of sucking
Over-saturation with games Thursday night, Sunday morning, Sunday day, Sunday night and Monday Bight
Most of those games sucking donkey dongs
They have taken all the hits away and may as well put shirts on the QBs
Replays
At the end of the day, it is probably a collection of all of those things, but mostly it is the fact that their core fans are all in their 40's. They haven't done a good job getting as many young fans interested in the game and the ones that are, like me, have lives that get in the way. Years ago, I'd find myself in a crappy city in Europe and go out at 2am to watch a crappy Jets game at a crappy Irish pub in a crappy part of town... today I wouldn't go to the lobby to watch anything.
What it really comes down is that they need less dickheads and more dildos on the field
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