The NFL is basically hitting rock bottom, and I think we should all give ourselves a pat on the back for it.
According to the New York Post:
The TV audience for NFL games steepened its slide in Week 11, losing 1 million viewers versus last year’s season-to-date average.
The 6.3 percent slump — worsening from comparable declines of 5.6 to 5.7 percent during the previous three weeks — plagued a week whose off-the-field drama made gridiron tackling seem almost tame by comparison.
And I guess they’re blaming it on Jerry Jones?
Why not blame it on the imbeciles that started this mess to begin with?
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remained the major distraction by continuing to battle with fellow team owners and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Jones brought even more tension to Week 11 when video footage surfaced late last week of the football tycoon making a racially charged remark at a 2013 wedding party.
President Donald Trump added to the off-field antics with a tweet calling for the suspension of the Oakland Raiders’ Marshawn Lynch for not standing for the national anthem during a game played in Mexico City.
Yeeeeahhhh…. that’s not the problem, folks.
This is:
Giants kneel on Thanksgiving on National TV! Like drinking poison to kill your enemy.
— Jim Ferguson (@RealJimFerguson) November 24, 2017
On #Thanksgiving dude? While the Anthem is sung by a Master Sergeant of the United States Army to honor the United States of America ? Disgusting and dispicable. Turning off the game #NFL pic.twitter.com/LtzvPm4Yt4
— Scott Levy (@FuelOnline) November 24, 2017
#TookMeTheWholeYearTo realize I’m done with the @NFL. Thanks @nflcommish for allowing your employees to destroy the game. All this is happening on your watch. This failure is all you will B remembered 4. Look at your ratings and sales. You as a Commish are a failure. YOUR FIRED pic.twitter.com/9xjHjDQg5a
— S.Churchill (@S_Churchill26) November 25, 2017
I AM SO DONE WITH THE NFL! A FAN SENCE 1971 Of AMERICAS GAME BUT NO MORE!! ROGER GOODELL IS A FARCE AS FOR ME NO THANKS NFL NO MORE! AMERICAS GAME TO AMERICAS SHAME! BOYCOTT NFL & 🖕Roger Goodell👋
— David Robinson (@ro50916016) November 24, 2017
But sure… blame it on Jerry Jones.
After starting 11.8 percent behind last year’s TV audience for NFL games in Week 1, league viewership had either held its own or narrowed the gap through Week 8.
The 6.3 percent shortfall in Week 11 reflects an average viewership of 14.9 million for the NFL’s 68 national telecasts this year versus 15.9 million for the season-to-date in 2016.
So…. what do YOU think will happen next? Because surely something has to give eventually…