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(09-18-2018 10:08 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(09-17-2018 08:37 PM)Hoekjeness Wrote:  

(09-17-2018 10:36 AM)BroncoPhilly Wrote:  The players are making a big mistake if they think their anthem protests won't have an affect, many folks will find other things to do with their free time and the financial impact on the NFL will be felt. Throw in that festering issue of CTE injuries and you have all the makings for a sport in it's final stages of popularity.

And the consumers are making an even bigger mistake by not paying attention to what the protests are actually about. Talk about a snowflake... why would you stop watching because a guy kneels during a commercial break?

The NFL is still the most watched professional sports on TV, and it's not even remotely close. The average NBA Conference Finals (and Finals) drew about 12-15 million viewers this past summer. A single NFL playoff game drew 3x that much (40-45 million viewers):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/...db0664819b

You're watching too much Faux News and subsequently have zero sense of reality.

2018 NBA Finals had an average viewership of 17.7 million per game.That's about 71 million views for a 4 game series. I believe that doesn't include worldwide streaming. The numbers were down from 2016 and 2017 for the NBA that were 20 million+.

Correct. And one NFL playoff game (not even the Super Bowl) had 44 million viewers.