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No surprise here. We did not watch, and have no inclination to do so in the future. It was fun to watch two of the commercials on YouTube.
Well, DUH! Does the NFL (No Fans Left) still refuse to acknowledge the number of fans who left for good as soon as it genuflected to the selfish, anti-patriotic, ungracious BLM nonsense of ingrates led by the likes of Colin Kaepernick, et al? Just play football…and remind [the applicable] wealthy activist players that they are making far more money than the average fan, so the last thing that fan wants to see and hear is whining about how put-upon you perceive yourself to be, rather than respecting and being thankful for the country and culture that made your success possible.
Or, as Author Ayn Rand might advise wealthy NFL owners with her famous quotation, “You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Well said Bob P
Spot on Bob, haven’t watched a game in 2 years and haven’t missed it. Hope they continue to fall with ratings.
In physics every action has a reaction.
Bob P is correct. The NFL (and other professional sports, for that matter) has enjoyed and fostered an artificial image that the sport is the embodiment of patriotism and sportsmanship. Requiring the athletes to be on the field for the national anthem, when many/most are not really focused on the anthem but on the impending athletic contest and increasingly their social cause(s), has backfired (read: The Emperor has No Clothes). In fairness, many fans ignore the national anthem, too. Watch how hard the broadcasters try to find coaches, players, and/or fans who are behaving patriotically to get them on camera (ooops, KC number 95 and his chat buddy were a “fail” during the Super Bowl National Anthem – you can be sure someone caught hell for keeping them on camera as long as they were…). So the evolution….First, the owners threaten players for protesting, then, a mixed response, then a decision to leave the athletes in the locker room for the national anthem, and now, Mark Cuban deciding that the national anthem will no longer be played before his NBA Dallas Mavericks home games. Regarding sportsmanship, as trash talking has taken over sports [it used to get penalized in any sport, now it is de rigueur for the athletes to be jawing and demonstrably trash talking until too often physical hostilities break out. Watch how quickly the camera cuts away from scenes where you can see a couple players start to go at it, and how fast referees have to move in in the middle of deteriorating situations. The professional leagues are printing money, but if (esp. wealthy) fans are turned off by thuggishness, or self aggrandizing (or taunting) behaviors, they know they risk killing off the golden goose. So the league works hard with the broadcasters to avoid showing any of the ugliness. [As a side note, I wonder just how many fans would really miss the group end zone gatherings in front of the camera….?.] When I see a particularly elaborately choreographed individual or especially group routine, I wonder how much better the athletes might be playing if they had spent the time they used to practice the choreographing on game skills or studying film….