What did they mean by this?

What did they mean by this?

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>and everyone's ratings are down
D A M A G E
C O N T R O L
H A R D
B O I I I I I I

>because it's 2017

>everyone's ratings are down
>NBA ratings are up
>>>>>>on ESPN
i dont think that means what they think it means

how wrote this drivel?

but college football ratings are up, including SEC football on CBS

>this damage control

>Let's put our blinders on and refuse to accept fault with something and blame it on the medium and refuse to innovate that while we're at it
Great business model

I doubt the protests are helping but it certainly isnt the biggest reason. Its been on decline for years because the product just gets worse and worse to watch. Shit rules, commercials out the ass, the patriots constantly winning, and the league becoming short pass happy have all lead to its downfall.

>watching the Patriots win yet not another ring for the 6th time

Gee, what an exciting sport/season.

>Don’t listen to your family, listen to our soulless corporate propaganda

How would you improve the NFL, Sup Forums?

Stop caring about safety. Make it 1970-tier rules. Someone dies on the field lol oh well. Turn the shit into an actual gladiator sport and tell cucks and concerned busybodies to take a hike. Players won't complain when their salaries are doubled overnight.

1. Put Vince McMahon in charge of it
2. Publicly execute Roger Goodell
3. Change Philadelphia Eagles colors and logos for being too shitty
4. Implement pro/rel with two divisions of 16 teams
5. No more pass interference fouls EVER, WRs are paid big buck to withstand proper blind and unfair tackles
6. The worst team in the second division would have to play a bowl game against the highest ranked or College Football Playoffs champion, and if the NFL team lost, they would have to be sold
7. Remove obesity
8. Stop clock at all times

THEY SAID THE THING.

>IT'S 2017

>3. Change Philadelphia Eagles colors and logos for being too shitty
I support this if they go back to the 80s/early 90s colors

i have a weird uncle steve who just left an hour ago. that's creepy.

I think that's confirmation bias in that someone who goes by Steve is a lot more likely to be weird than normal

Remove the Patriots.
Parity increases by 75% as a result

Why is the vocabulary dumbed down? Almost Trump borderline.

Nobody's watching because nobody wants to see the Pats get gifted another Super Bowl

>everyone's ratings are down!
>MLB, NBA, NHL ratings are/were up

Sup Forums learned, Papa Johns learned, soon Trump will learn.

DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL

Trump already messed with football back in the 80's, though. You nigger.

Just go back to 2004 rules. Also, no protesting on the field or in uniform. You must stand with one hand on your heart during the anthem and the other clenched at the hip without speaking, if you violate this rule you are suspended immediately for the year (to carry over to next year).

Looks like with a keyboard

and he got humiliated

Remove penalties for excessive celebrating

it's christmas and yanks are still effortposting about fucking tv ratings

>Also, no protesting on the field or in uniform. You must stand with one hand on your heart during the anthem and the other clenched at the hip without speaking, if you violate this rule you are suspended immediately for the year (to carry over to next year).

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HOW DARE YOU PEACEFULLY PROTEST REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Exactly. And it should be that way because the NBA is just the superior league. So much drama and parity, you never know what's gonna happen next! And the referees are so much better as well

>using ITS CURRENT YEAR as an excuse for anything

Why are people this retarded?

Because there are people who, unironically, watch CBS and NBC willingly and, as a conclusion, are fucking retards.

>mfw i watch an nfl game on cbs and see commercials for cbs shows

>the big bang theory
>young sheldon
>ncis
>kevin james
>matt leblanc
>60 minutes

NCIS is gud tho..well it was

>NCIS is gud

grandma howd you find Sup Forums

what

Stop calling back 80% of great plays because of a bad penalty that didn't even matter

for sure it isn't the biggest reason, but it is a factor and to deny it is to deny reality in favor of your ideology

Like I said. Was good. I started watching it on Netflix one day cause I was bored

Nfl needs to dismantle the broadcasting system
The games would have better viewership if they would evolve.
There should be a dozen color commentator teams, not just one. Out of market games should be easier to watch
I would pay a reasonable fee just for those two changes

Then, of course, let teams be more interactive with social media using footage from games. It's a good way to build hype

>NCIS is gud

Because the jury was incompetent and thought the judge was supposed to set the money that Trump should have been given, so they gave him $1 for winning the lawsuit, thereby letting the NFL get away with it. You enjoy the fact that a company has an absolute monopoly over the sport, almost like a communist

>probably down a tic or so
>because it's 2017 and everyone's ratings are down
>don't listen to your weir uncle steve

this is the most embarrassing apologia i've ever seen

Pay attention to espn's notre Dame apologists next season. It's truly disgusting

>muh protesting

>be american
>kneel
>too fat, can't get up
>get shot

>The worst team in the second division would have to play a bowl game against the highest ranked or College Football Playoffs champion, and if the NFL team lost, they would have to be sold

2 extra divisions. teams in Mexico and Great Britain on them, maybe Germany.
National anthem only obligatory during playoffs.
Running backs can't play more than three seasons, so they don't get too much damage on their bodies.

>remove Michael Jordan
>now anybody can win the title : ^)
Only soyboys and faggots care about parity, real fans appreciate greatness, whether overcoming it or watching it dominate

washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/24/nfl-looks-to-recover-from-record-low-tv-ratings/

even wapo admits the ratings are down big

*wati

>In week 15 of the NFL season, average television viewership fell 9 percent from the same week last season, according to Nielsen, which measures television audience sizes. Week 14 was 8.4 percent lower compared with 2016.

and 2016 was a bad year

Nobody cares about trump-friendly rags like the Washington Times

Washington Times is a conservative paper dude.

It's cutting into owner's profits and it's a private employer. I can't protest at my job either. Employers can regulate this type of thing.

White teams and black teams only playing on different leagues. Once every year the winner of the white competition would play against the winner of the black winner, making that match the most antecipated event of the year broadcasted globally, huge profits

>Argentine
>Arguing American law

>implying i'm wrong
>implying trump was wrong
>implying the nfl isn't a crooked monopoly

That's a massive drop.

That's the one argument for splitting into the AFL and NFL

You guys are delusional

Hey you guys. Do you think that ratings might be down because everyone streams the games for free?

>implying you are white
>implying you know the laws of a white man

If they crack down completely on it I wont watch any sports at all

Fuck Trump. That loser doesn't know shit about running football teams / leagues.

God, please just start with #2. The rest will work itself out,

Whoever ok'd young sheldon should get ebola injected right in their eyeballs.

I wouldn't mind the Patriots winning so much if they weren't the beneficiary of so much refbabby bullshit. They're a good enough team but the blatant favoritism from the league is fucking awful.

Seriously, think of the top 5 biggest refball moments from the season so far and the pats have atleast 3 of them in their favor

And yet he walked away from that deal with a fuck ton of money. Hmmmm....

>runs league into ground
>walks away richer than ever
smart choice for president imho

>trips of truth

execute the obnoxious advertisers too. start with honda and ford for their sounds at the start of their commercials. supposed to be a relaxing sunday evening not pathetic attention whoring.

Yeah, because who wants proven winner running the show? Let's get some socialist fossil or a phony feminist sociopath. Good thinking, brainlet,

There definitely is a world of difference between a 'Steve' and a 'Stephen'

I'd start with Apple and their muh diversity showcases featuring actual talking pieces of shit.

>stop clock at all times
>publicly execture Roger Goodell
im down for these 100%

Confirmed. Steve Austin is worth 6 million dollars. Stephen A Smith aint worth shit.

You can't make someone pledge allegiance though.

Change playoff rules. No more guaranteed play off spots for each division. If you run the table on a division, but aren't leading your own, you get their spot.

I chuckled at 6 before realizing that's a great idea

Where is the proof

You can make them stay in the tunnel. A private business absolutely has the right to censure an employee's protest.

The 2017 Browns would beat the best college team of the last decade 62-3. And it probably wouldn't even be that close. The NFL is in an entirely different stratosphere.

>Cheatriots cheat again as the NFL is rigging games, ratings are down
Yes it's the protest not people sick of seeing the garbage they are forced fed for cuck faggot cry baby Brady

They can make you abide by any code of conduct they deem fit. It's a private business and no one is forcing you to remain in their employment.

Actually amazing I think nfl doesn’t punish teams like the browns enough, imo the browns should pick last every year

>Proven winner

It looks like yet again the Patriots will have homefield throughout the playoffs and cruise to the superbowl. just like every fucking year.

the pats are probably gonna win the owl again. and it will be a big "so fucking what" from everyone. Its not like the Pats are even that good, they just benefit from refball

>beat the most shilled for candidate of all time
>not a winner

The league wants to commit suicide. The league wants to kill itself. Prove me wrong. There's too much to say really. The protests, CTE, ridiculous security measures, etc. There is one thing that I think illustrates my point very effectively.

>become unironically the football league for social progress and tolerance thus alienating itself from it's userbase
>'let's fuck up ezekiel elliot's career. he's young, he's hot, he's up and coming, he's part of the dynamic duo at the dallas cowboys with dak and he's part of a narrative that's actually exciting and provocative and interesting and could save the league with renewed interest and ratings'
>'our reasoning here is to make a bid to appease people that do not even watch football, nor ever will watch football. '
>'we use such a low standard that you could trip over it...despite zeke being cleared of any and all wrongdoing before it went to criminal or civil court, we had to act at a lethargic pace and doom his sophomore season'

Friendly reminder that Drumpfags are uneducated Inbreds that vote agaisnt their own economic interests

Friendly remined that NFL fans make less than on the whole than soccer fans. Imagine being that poor.

>LeBron baits Trump on Twitter right at the beginning of the NFL season by calling him a bum and getting 1.5M likes.
>Trump's focus shifts to sports, he responds by attacking the NFL protest (which was probably about to die anyway) in a speech later that night and on Twitter the next day
>Social media explodes and the NFL anthem protest goes from being on its last legs to being an league wide trend.
>As player continue to protest, the story becomes a major national issue and NFL ratings suffer tremendously. As time passes and the story grows, LeBron and Steph's initial involvement is largely forgotten.
...
>NBA season finally starts.
>None of the basketball players (including LeBron) protest or even discuss the protests. NBA ratings soar to new heights, while the NFL limps to the finish line of their worst season in ages with no good solutions for any of the controversies they're mired in.

All a part of LeMaster plan.

The really poor ones are all the inbred trailer park walmartians trump supporters that live in dirt poor red states

>Do not listen to your uncle, goy. Trust the media.

Get rid of niggers.

it probably isn't the actual protests themselves, but the fact that for the first month or so 1/2 the football game and all coverage of football was announcer/reporters fucking talking about the protests

The really sad thing is that it has nothing to do with the thread or the NFL, really. If anything, that hurts the NFL. That's okay though, because the NFL is shit, so I'm all for its demise.

theres no way this is real

wut?
i thought for sure that it was mainly because of the new research regarding how severe the cte situation really was
you're telling me that Americans are and have always been aware of the dangers of Handegg and would have kept playing if not for the fucking Patriots winning too much?

instant replay is ruining the sport. look at the controversial call in the buffalo game this weekend. nobody wants to see football turn into a game of millimeters, where the refs look at a replay for five minutes to determine if a player was withing the right blade of grass

Could I do an anti "#MeToo" protest or a
"White Genocide" protest before a game?
Cause if they let you do that nonsense
too they they should be able to do a BLM
protest. If not, then no protests at all

The players have always known that football leaves you a torn up husk of an old man. This concussion shit is players that blew their money trying to get more. Nobody gives a fuck