NFL TV Ratings Improve Overall in Week 3 After Boost from Monday Night Football

[ABX]

Interesting. NFL's ratings are going up, not down. I guess the old adage goes: It doesn't matter what they say about, just they are talking about you.

Among his other tweets over the last 48 hours, Trump said the ratings for NFL football were “way down except before game starts, when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected!”....

....The final viewership numbers based on projections from Fox Sports vice president of research Mike Mulvihill are that the NFL games from Sunday and Monday were up 3% in aggregate over Week 3 in 2016. NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy also confirmed those numbers.

On Tuesday afternoon, CBS said its NFL coverage on Sunday drew 17.9 million viewers, up 2% from a year ago......

https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/09/26/nfl-ratings-increase-donald-trump-comments-monday-night-football

[ABX]

Related:

Boycott? Monday Night Football posts best ratings of the season to date

How to square this with the emerging “boycott is happening” narrative from Sunday’s NBC and Fox ratings? It’s possible that a bunch of casual fans who normally don’t watch tuned in last night to see if there’d be a pre-game protest, artificially inflating the ratings. But if that were true, Sunday’s ratings should have been up too....

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/26/boycott-monday-night-football-posts-best-ratings-season-date/

[RAT Patrol]

Interesting.  I really don't care about them.  I wish they could all lose.  The only change I've made is that I've decided not to buy that KC Chiefs throw for my brother.  My money won't be spent to enrich them.

[dfwgator]

Of course they improved, it was the friggin' Cowboys.

[Leto]

The ratings aren't all that great. There is an element of spin here. The Cowboys are a big draw, there is also a curiosity factor to see what happens with the protests.

We will see where the ratings go over the course of the year.

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/nfl-tv-ratings-viewership-nbc-cbs-fox-espn-nfln-regular-season-playoffs/

[TomSea]

It's publicity for Trump too... that can't be ignored, the president looked into this.

[Bigun]

Polls

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Of course they improved, it was the friggin' Cowboys.
 

and who could ever forget the MNF in 1970 between the Cardinals and Cowboys that saw the Cardinals blank Dallas 38-0 at the Cotton Bowl. It was the day that even the combination of Craig Morton and Roger Staubach could do nothing right.  It also launched the Cowboys to regroup and win 7 in a row and went all the way to a field goal to winning the Super Bowl.

[TomSea]

Drudge Report has up that NFL ratings are -11. So, that means for the year, not the week. Still, that must represent something.  Article below:

https://apnews.com/bf595941ba9640e9ab32e474459f529c/Nielsen:-Football-ratings-off-11-percent-this-year

Nielsen: Football ratings off 11 percent this year
By DAVID BAUDER
1 hour ago
https://apnews.com/bf595941ba9640e9ab32e474459f529c Link copied!

NEW YORK (AP) — Through three weeks, viewership for national telecasts of NFL games is down 11 percent this season compared to 2016, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday.

Nielsen said the games averaged 17.63 million viewers for the first three weeks of last season, and have dipped to 15.65 million this year. The Nielsen figures don’t include many of the Sunday afternoon games that are shown to a regional audience, but not a national one.

[Cyber Liberty]

The most hyped game of the year, with people watching to see just how the baby gets split.

[Night Hides Not]

The most hyped game of the year, with people watching to see just how the baby gets split.

One thing's for sure: Jerry Jones attempt to play Solomon was a major fail, IMO.

[Cyber Liberty]

One thing's for sure: Jerry Jones attempt to play Solomon was a major fail, IMO.

I think it was, while others posting think it was the greatest compromise since the Constitution.   

I say, "How many Dallas Cowboys stood at attention with their hand over their hearts during the Anthem?"  First they said "Screw the Police" by taking a knee (without a prayer), then said "Screw the flag" by standing with their arms locked.  Some compromise.  Somehow saying "Screw you" twice as a team makes it all better.

[Bigun]

I think it was, while others posting think it was the greatest compromise since the Constitution.   

I say, "How many Dallas Cowboys stood at attention with their hand over their hearts during the Anthem?"  First they said "Screw the Police" by taking a knee (without a prayer), then said "Screw the flag" by standing with their arms locked.  Some compromise.  Somehow saying "Screw you" twice as a team makes it all better.

I suffered NFL withdrawal symptoms for a few hours over the weekend but I'm all better now!  The can ALL go to hell and they can take the NBA with them as far as I'm concerned!

And furthermore I'm sick to death of my tax money subsidizing the worthless bastards!

[Bigun]

Not One More Dime: NFL Stadiums Have Collected Over $1.1 Billion in Federal Subsidies – Time to Cut Them Off

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/enough-enough-nfl-stadiums-collected-1-1-billion-federal-subsidies-time-cut-off/

To which I say    and 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I suffered NFL withdrawal symptoms for a few hours over the weekend but I'm all better now!  The can ALL go to hell and they can take the NBA with them as far as I'm concerned!

And furthermore I'm sick to death of my tax money subsidizing the worthless bastards!

Switch over the College Football, and you will find more entertainment with the fan base, true excitement of the players, and even announcers who do football rather than politics.

When players act up, they get banned, not feted.

[dfwgator]

Switch over the College Football, and you will find more entertainment with the fan base, true excitement of the players, and even announcers who do football rather than politics.

When players act up, they get banned, not feted.

We'll see,   I'm expecting some shenanigans this weekend in College Football.

[Bigun]

Switch over the College Football, and you will find more entertainment with the fan base, true excitement of the players, and even announcers who do football rather than politics.

When players act up, they get banned, not feted.

Actually did that years ago!  I had far rather watch some kids playing for the love of the game than a bunch of overpaid slugs putting on a show for money.

[TomSea]

Not all teams but some teams I've watched have over celebrated at times; and I find that as hot-dogging... but a lot of it is okay, one evening I went to watch a high school volleyball game, that place was jammed.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

We'll see,   I'm expecting some shenanigans this weekend in College Football.

Maybe, but college fans are even more disdaining than NFL fans of unpatriotic gestures.

Difference is college fans come from smaller towns, not the urban places like NFL.