How JUST can one league be?

How JUST can one league be?

Lets be honest, the sport is near dead. Viewing numbers are plummeting and no one turns up to stadiums anymore.

They apparently cancelled it because it would compromise the competitive integrity of the league.
Which is strange because the NFL usually doesn't care about that too much, what with teams having home games in London and such.
But this was an uncharacteristically noble decision by them to put competition above profit.

>sport is near dead
College football ratings are up though.

The NFL certainly has a reputation problem at the moment, but once they distance themselves from the anthem chimpouts, they'll be fine for the medium-term.

That's just an excuse desu. Pretty much the whole field is set so there's not a lotta drama, but that doesn't mean they couldn't pick a meaningless game that could be fun and put it on Sunday Night. Truth is they wanna avoid the embarrassing ratings their slumping league would pull on NYE.

>the problem is the anthem protests i s-swear
No, the problem is that your "sport" is shit

>They apparently cancelled it because it would compromise the competitive integrity of the league.
What does that mean? Don't all teams have to play out their schedules?

they will just play at 4 instead

the game is just going to be played earlier in the day and not at night.

Fucking bong. The ratings are down because nobody watches television anymore. ALL ratings are down for everything. You know how many motherfuckers watch these games and other shows online because of how much of an ass rape cable packages are? There Jaguars just sold out their first playoff game. You must be taking about games where nobody wants to fucking go because the teams suck ass (i.e Colts, Browns, etc). You are grasping at straws my retarded soccer loving friend.

Oh, okay. Thanks for the clarification.

>American "sports" can just be cancelled

lmfao

Should've put the Browns on

>He unironically believes it's because of the anthem protests

Please stick to soccer.

I am a huge basketball fan and despite what the media saying. Basketball are in still not even close to NFL ratings. also college football ratings have been up a lot this year too

you guys cancel soccer games when there is just a little bit of snow on the ground

If the problem is with the sport itself, then why are college football ratings up?

Its because sunday is new years eve not many people will be watching after 5

nfl just had two relocations and one more on its way out the door. College football has always been the thinking mans form of football

Why didn't they just do what they always do and put on an NFC East division game.

Love em or hate em, Cowboys-Eagles would still pull in good ratings, even if they have nothing to play for.

>dont know the #1 troll match in us soccer history was 'the snow game' and it had an entire country crying about it for literally 4 years

The ass tears are delicious. Keep em coming you filthy Brazilian monkey and Mr I should really get my teeth looked at faggot. Seriously these two faggots legitimately have better shit to do with their time, especially when you live in such gutter shits, but nah let's talk about American sports as if we know. Niggah Brazil isn't even scheduled to hit the Stone age until 2022, who is this faggot running his mouth? Fucking kids getting btfo

This

Refs don't rig college games as blatantly as the NFL does

i can smell the kfc from here jamal. fuck outta here

college has better rules and slightly better officiating

I honestly can't stand to watch sports anymore. Grown men being paid millions to play a sport just feels wrong. The lack of sportsmanship, the NFL chimp outs, the never ending commercials between every play and during the fucking game. I like playing sports but god help me if Ill ever sit through watching one.

imagine being so starved for attention you have to go on Sup Forums and tripfag lmfao

The viewing figures weee dropping year on year long before the anthem protests.

MAD
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>You must be taking about games where nobody wants to fucking go because the teams suck ass

The American mindset.

>You must be taking about games where nobody wants to fucking go because the teams suck ass (i.e Colts, Browns, etc

look at this dood

Suuuure.

imagine watching amateur black kids using tax dollars to skip class and throw an egg around. now imagine watching some of these kids go onto the professional league for a couple years, get concussed, then drop out and become criminals

imagine watching and supporting something so ridiculous and detrimental to society.

imagine being an american

I don't want to anymore.

college football ratings are up.

yes sports are dumb but I still like em

>still crying ass tears and getting BTFO
I don't even have to do anything anymore lol

>near dead
>10-27 million viewers for an NFL game
>1-3 million for the "OMG SO WOKE!" NBA

Why don't you fall down and cry about it?

Imagine having to switch proxies every 4 seconds just to make it look like someone agrees with your stupid opinion?

Colts are going 19-0 next year. This was just the calm before the storm

Couldn't they have just flexed in a matchup between 2 teams not making the playoffs

this guy is definitely right
sure nobody wants to watch shit teams, but most of the teams are good
I know I'm on the season ticket list for the Packers, have been for years, and I'll be lucky if my grandkids get ahold of those tickets
the NFL isn't going anywhere

No one wants to watch that

>I'll be lucky if my grandkids get ahold of those tickets

is that because you have to have sex first

Pence is about to sneeze it looks like

its all the cum he gets up his nose from the facials he gets from guys at glory holes in rest stop bathrooms that causes him to look like that all the time

will never know that feel

7 MORE YEARS

LMFAO THIS LEAGUE IS DEAD

GOODBYE KNEELFL

>Put competition above profit
But it was about profit. If SNF was a meaningless game, most people wouldn't watch. Ratings = Profit


I do want to know how to works with network contacts though. Doesn't NBC have SNF and Fox/CBS have daytime? Will NBC show the same game just in the day?

7 more years of what

NBC is still getting a game, bust just in the afternoon, right?
cuz I've read that NBC basically calls the shots when it comes to the NFL schedule, since they backed the league before any other network

nbc is not having a game. why is this so hard to understand? cbs and fox have exclusive right to sunday afternoon games. there are 7 early games and 9 late games this weekend.

you guys can claim "lmao league dying these are just excuses" all you want, but the reasons they cut the primetime games were because they didnt want any playoff teams to see clinching scenarios early and be able to rest players for an advantage, and yes because they likely saw what happened to college football playoff games on new years eve with ratings and said "fuck that"

oh sorry wait i meant

LMFAO LIBKEKS BTFO KNEELFL UPPITY CHIMPS MUH BLACK LIVES MATTER COLON KRAPPERDICK NFL DYING HOCKEY GONNA BE #1 SPORT IN AMERICA

you know for a fact that if the cowboys or packers were having a playoff clinching game on week 17 that shit would definitely have been a sunday night game
that's why they waited until after the cowboys' loss to announce the schedule change

those two teams keep the lights on in the nfl

perception is reality and even mark cuban admits things are in decline
buy in to the grow forever meme, and you will necessarily be judged under that criteria

Mark Cuban is a totally unbias source.

oh wow, "even" mark cuban, the guy who owns an nba franchise

keep watching your toronto raptors play well in the regular season and get obliterated in the playoffs because the regular season is meaningless in the "amazing and awesome" NBA, leaf

how many yards on offense did seattle have? 110?
that's why nobody is watching football, even the playoff teams suck ass

a sports team owner with a "hip" perception who is far from sympathetic to the sitting president, yes i would say that he is

He's also the owner of a team in a rival sports organization that would gain from the NFL's fall who is willing tout about the death of the NFL to anyone who may listen because it would help him and he's very attention hungry.

In England they cancelled the Spurs-West Ham game that was originally set for NYE. Also, "cancelled" is a bit misleading in both cases. It's not like the games aren't happening. The SNF game will just be played during the afternoon while the soccer game will be played in January.

>even Mark Cuban
You mean NBA team owner Mark Cuban?

>NFL games are on national television except Monday Night football

>Blame cable prices


????

>Expecting any American that's not a hipster to know or give a shit about divegrass

you're pathetic

Here on the Germany NFL is peaking tho

They're afraid that the evening game, if it becomes meaningless to the playoffs, will be a demoralized snoozefest. It's usually a tactic to have two games with playoff considerations played simultaneously to get both contenders motivated.

That's just media stupidity. The game was rescheduled to the afternoon, not cancelled. Waste of a perfectly good thread.

>Thursday Night Football LITERALLY HAS TO COMPETE WITH THE BIG BANG THEORY
[KNEELZINGA INTENSIFIES]

So what the fuck happens in the NBA? Don't they sing the national anthem before games too? Do the black players not kneel or are they uncle Toms?

And considering the playoffs are pretty much locked in, the last games of the regularseason are pretty meaningless

It's a rule in the NBA that players have to stand for the anthem.

It's not an issue in the NBA because the entire league and its fanbase are solidly left-wing. Kneeling wouldn't send a message because the vast majority of the people watching and playing are already on board. The league's commissioner made it a rule that players had to stand for the anthem and nobody was too upset about it, because the league has a tradition of letting players make political statements if they want (the "I can't breathe" t-shirt thing being the best example I can think of).

naw nigga, it's mandatory to stand for the anthem

NBA is always been a haven for nigger-tier behavior so they're always 1 step ahead on issues, there's a reason they're the only league with a mandatory dress code

>NCIS is still a thing
Surely based Tony leaving should have killed this by now?

is it tho?

Yes massive increase in popularity across Europe in the last 2 years. On a scale of 1 to 100 I'd say it's gone from a 5 to a 15.

>ME LIEK DUH MFL PFFFTLPPPSSSPHLBBBLB

Fucking this.

And Gooddell loves it. The NFL isn't about competition anymore. It's basically unscripted wrestling and "sports" entertainment with a half hour of commercials for every hour of game play.

3 hours of commercials for 15 minutes of game play

>naw nigga, it's mandatory to stand for the anthem
I literally said that. Learn to read.

>And Gooddell loves it.
Can you explain why the Patriots keep winning even though Goodell clearly hates them?

>Goodell issues an UNOFFICIAL memo saying "you can film from this place on the field but not this place"
>Pats say "well it's unofficial, let's ignore it"
>cue NFL investigation into this violation of a rule that isn't actually a rule
>Retards: OMG SPYGATE!
>NFL says "you can't deflate/inflate the balls"
>everyone does it, literally every NFL QB gets to talk to the equipment manager about how they want the balls inflated
>to the point that it's essentially part of a homefield advantage
>Pats do it
>NFL investigates Pats and bans Brady

I'm a Bears fan but it's funny to see him continually try to fuck over the Patriots and see them win anyway.

mark cuban said the league is in decline

hes probably right

NBA ratings are up my man

and now 30 minutes of refs looking at replay

NBA players arent stupid enough to follow a leader like colin kaepernick

even brainlets know kneeling for the national anthem is a stupid protest

>there's a reason they're the only league with a mandatory dress code
bingo, or at least they were first

and it literally saved the league

>college has better rules and slightly better officiating
Sure.......

>DEH MFL ID NOD WIGGED

Even in a shit ass down year for the NFL, more people watch a Sunday night game than the NBA Finals lel.

The NFL is as rigged as the WWE

The sport is growing with Japan

>Americans care less about competitive integrity and more about profit margins and ratings

sports are literally just an excuse for you fucks to spend some money and eat isn't it

>nfl viewership decline coincides with the decline in people who watch TV regularly
mind boggling, truly.

b-but the negroes hurt my fee-fees

>there's a reason they're the only league with a mandatory dress code

It started because of Pacers and Pistons brawl that David Stern felt the fear ruined image of the NBA. That is why the mandatory dress code was established.

Everybody look at this fucking shit! A soccer fan saying other sports lack competitive integrity! Holy fucking shit that's good.

Competitive integrity? The game is being moved from primetime to daytime, its not actually being cancelled

>Refs don't rig college games
Yes they do even the NCAA knows about it and won't lift a finger.

The purpose is to ensure an equal playing field for sunday across all play off games. This is standard in every sport