The Kaepernick pity party is hurting the NFL, but they won't admit it
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As a part of that, I have been mainly watching Texas teams of late and have little interest in the prime time games. I only watch them when one of my teams is playing and would still rather see them play at noon on Sunday.
That the NFL is not willing to acknowledge the cause of their drop in attendance is probably either a bow to political correctness or willful blindness.
As Colin Kaepernick continues to drop to a knee, so do the NFL’s ratings.There is something about millionaires wallowing in self-pity that is unattractive, besides the disrespect they are showing to the national anthem and the flag. They are buying into the false narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement which grew out of the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie. It is a counter-productive movement that has led to even more black lives being lost in black on black crime as police pull back from community policing.
A new survey of Americans who identify themselves as football fans found that a majority of them have been watching fewer pro games this year because they are sick of seeing the San Francisco 49ers quarterback and other athletes refusing to stand for the national anthem.
A whopping 40 percent of the 1,136 people questioned in the Yahoo/YouGov poll said they were turned off by the protests, while another 31 percent cited a “lack of opportunity” to watch the NFL.
In total, 29 percent of the fans said they were tuning in less this year — which some believe is due to the presidential election.
But just 17 percent of those surveyed said that was actually the reason they weren’t watching.
As for the people who are up in arms over Kaepernick’s refusal to stand, more than half of the respondents were age 55 and over, while only 13 percent were age 18 to 34.
And it’s not just football fans who are peeved.
In similar polls involving the other three major professional sports, 17 percent of NBA fans said they would watch fewer games if they involved similar protests, 28 percent of baseball fans said they too would stop watching, and 31 percent of hockey fans said they would as well.
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As a part of that, I have been mainly watching Texas teams of late and have little interest in the prime time games. I only watch them when one of my teams is playing and would still rather see them play at noon on Sunday.
That the NFL is not willing to acknowledge the cause of their drop in attendance is probably either a bow to political correctness or willful blindness.
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