The NFL Gets Really, REALLY Bad News On This Super Bowl Sunday

It’s Superbowl Sunday.

I have not watched a SINGLE game this season, and I don’t intend to start now. (Though I’ll follow along on Twitter and stuff to make sure I’m reporting on anything y’all might care to read about.)

I think the NFL is a despicable organization that plays a large role in America’s cultural decay.

The NFL has provided a safehaven for wife-beating felons and America-hating ingrates to make millions of dollars playing a GAME – as little kids worship them as heroes.

Yeah. Count me out.

Anyway… according to 24/7 Wallstreet… I’m far from alone in hating the NFL. In fact, they’re the third most hated organization in the country.

A company can live or die by its reputation. Year after year, the vast majority of familiar companies and brands maintain — or build — their bond with the American consumer by offering dependable products and services and by cultivating a clean image.

Maintaining the public’s confidence is not a foregone conclusion. A single misstep — such as a price hike or tone-deaf tweet — can be enough to keep corporate public relations departments scrambling.

In other cases, corporate blunders rise above the threshold of an honest mistake. Public perceptions of an internal scandal, a toxic work environment, lax security, or unethical business practices can be enough to garner disdain from a large segment of American consumers — and in recent months there was no shortage of such revelations in the business world.

Reviewing a range of information, including major news events from the last year, customer survey results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, employee reviews on Glassdoor, as well as our own annual customer satisfaction survey, 24/7 Wall St. identified America’s most hated companies.

So… Where does the NFL stack up?!

Number Three!

Despite growing concerns and evidence, it has taken the NFL more than two decades to finally acknowledge the link between head injuries and their long-term effects — and to initiate concussion protocol policy. The NFL’s conduct in this matter has garnered significant criticism from the American public. The growing politicization during games this season gave even more Americans a reason to dislike the organization. President Donald Trump tweeted in September 2017 that the league should fire or suspend players who kneel during the national anthem — a trend that started in 2016 by now unsigned quarterback Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness of racial inequality in the United States. The act of kneeling is itself controversial, garnering support from some who claim it is a protected form of free speech in support of a righteous cause, while others claim it is disrespectful to the flag.

Though it remains the most popular professional sports league in the United States, the NFL’s viewership dipped considerably in 2017, due in part to boycott movements driven by the kneeling controversy. Nationally televised games in the current season averaged only 15.1 million viewers, down from 16.6 million last season.

Good job, Roger. You’re really sinking this ship, buddy.

Let the UNHINGED conspiracy theories commence…

It’s amazing to me how the president single handedly got so many Americans to hate the NFL. How easily duped they are. Could this be part of a long term plan to help promote the XFL that’s coming back and Trump has friends/or investment in the XFL?

— Stomak (@solidstomak) February 2, 2018

You put way too much credit in his ability to coordinate anything

— Gauge (@GaugeMalamute) February 2, 2018

i still have this suspicion that he’s smarter than people realize and most of what he does has an actual purpose, in his conniving underhanded ways. the XFL’s owner, Vince McMahon’s wife is in Trump’s cabinet, NFL also blacklisted trump a long time ago, he also made the USFL

— Stomak (@solidstomak) February 2, 2018

which the USFL was a total flop, he wanted it to compete with the NFL

— Stomak (@solidstomak) February 2, 2018

XFL owner Vince McMahon’s wife is in Trump’s cabinet.

Also NFL blacklisted Trump long ago, he got mad and made the competing USFL, which flopped.

— Bitey McBite-rsen (@VermyFox) February 2, 2018

it all makes sense now

— Stomak (@solidstomak) February 2, 2018

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.