You really shouldn't go around telling people what I have done to you....it's unbecoming of you....

You're ****ing weird.

Holy shit.

Brady. Way too much ****ing Brady.

The only reason people watch that shit is to see if he'll get his ass beat. You can't build a program on something that hollow and ultimately meaningless.

A record $158 plus million was bet on Super Bowl 52 at Nevada Sports books. Follow the money

Is that the excuse as to why all TV ratings are down?

To me it's as simple as the reason being that when ratings are as insanely high as they have been for the NFL, there's bound to be a dip for whatever reason. Personally, if I had to point to one thing that would stop me from wanting to watch games live would be the commercials. It's kinda shitty having to sit through hours of commercials at 4am on a Monday, but at the same time, it's a product of how the game works.

Again though, the NFL still gets crazy ratings even with the recent dips in viewership.

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news...on-1202702104/

NFL Thursday Night Digital Rights: Amazon, YouTube, Twitter, Verizon Again at Bidding Table

The usual tech suspects are looking to snag the NFL’s digital-streaming rights for “Thursday Night Football” for upcoming seasons, with Amazon, Google’s YouTube, Verizon and Twitter each on the short list of bidders, sources confirmed. The NFL is looking to cut a streaming deal for as long as five years for the “TNF” digital rights, as first reported by Bloomberg. The league sees value in carving up the 11-game Thursday night set — in addition to the five-year Fox broadcast deal it struck last month — with a global digital distributor that can enhance the telecasts with social extensions and interactive overlays, to reach younger audiences.

Twitter, Amazon and YouTube have been in the “Thursday Night Football” bidding mix for the last several years. Verizon also is looking to nab global digital multiplatform rights to the Thursday games, as first reported by Recode; that comes after the telco inked a five-year pact for nonexclusive U.S. mobile rights to stream NFL regular- and post-season games. Facebook, which has bid for NFL live games in the past, earlier dropped out of the latest cycle of “Thursday Night Football” negotiators. Amazon won the “Thursday Night Football” digital derby last season, after Twitter had them a year earlier. Amazon’s Prime Video drew 18.4 million total viewers in 224 countries and territories for the NFL games. Amazon’s average-minute audience watching the NFL games for at least 30 seconds topped 310,000, 17% higher than Twitter’s results the season prior.

The talks for ancillary “TNF” digital rights continue after Fox reached a five-year deal last month with the league for the Thursday night package, under which it is said to be paying more than $650 million per year. According to the NFL, Amazon’s Prime Video streaming in 2017 boosted overall consumption of “TNF” by about 2.5%. “In a world where people are trying to drive as much incremental consumption as possible, this is a small but growing asset for us,” NFL senior VP of digital media Vishal Shah said at an industry conference last fall.

The NFL, Amazon, YouTube, Twitter and Verizon declined to comment on the latest “TNF” bidding.

The jockeying for “Thursday Night Football” streaming rights is a microcosm of the larger incursion by technology companies into the sports-media world. Observers expect that within a few years, a major streaming platform will steal a bucket of premium rights from a TV broadcaster. That hasn’t happened yet, but digital players have been nibbling around the edges. Last month, YouTube TV struck a deal with Los Angeles Football Club for exclusive L.A.-area broadcast rights, a Major League Soccer expansion team that will begin competing in the 2018 season.

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But, but, but RATINGS!

:facepalm:

Surprised Netflix is not involved.

They could do a NFL on Netflix stand alone or add on feature. Include the game, then test backlog of games, maybe select your favorite teams.

Netflix is focused on original content.

Shelling out hundreds of millions for rights to stream Thursday night NFL games isn’t a move they need to make in order to attract new subscribers.

Papa John's is killing its official NFL sponsorship deal.

We will shift our marketing from the broader NFL sponsorship" to focus on specific teams and players, Papa John's CEO Steve Ritchie said in a call with investors on Tuesday.

Papa John's and the NFL said in a statement that they made a "mutual decision" to end the pizza chain's official league sponsorship deal.

On Tuesday, Papa John's reported that system-wide comparable sales dropped 3.9% in North America in the fourth quarter.

Executives said that "negative consumer sentiment" contributed to the sales slump.

Now that Marcus Peters is traded i fully expect to see a bump in Chiefs TV viewership.

**EDIT** that was sarcasm btw

Yeah, and now the richies in the yellow seats at Arrowhead should no longer be scared to come out of their suites too, now that the fear of being hit by a flag or sock is almost non-existent.

Papa John's pizza's are crap, that is why the sales dropped.

A lot of competition in the Pizza market...

Last time I had Pizza Hut though it was disgusting. Not even edible. :shake:

As far as the ratings declines, Dane had some good points. Also, low turnout at stadiums has a lot to do with pricing and putting a shit product on the field. Who is gonna pay good money to watch a shitty team?

The ratings hit a peak a couple of years ago but the real decline lies in how boring the games are getting. The product is suffering. Too many bullshit flags, defenses are castrated and the games take forever.