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NFL Ratings Are Up 17%, Boosted by Fans Back in Stands and Close Games
Games have drawn an average of 17.3 million viewers through the first four weeks of this season
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Never a boycotter myself but have only watched two games this year so far. We are just flat busy right now.
Walleye
(31,008 posts)jimfields33
(15,768 posts)Trump intensified it. Really very ridiculous. Never should have been part of the conversation. Trump just likes to ruin everything.
brooklynite
(94,500 posts)Id guess that 99% of the audience never knew that a boycott had been decreed.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)The GQP rubes will boycott (refuse to go to) NFL games for which they can not afford the ticket price + parking + drive to big "liberal" city. They're continuing to not go to games they were never going to in the first place.
That'll show 'em.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)...that they wouldn't watch because of the Black National Anthem being added.
What these drones ignored is that except in week one, the anthem(s) are played 10 minutes before the broadcast begins. So, there was nothing to boycott because they weren't going to hear either sing, anyway.
maxsolomon
(33,305 posts)It's a sad year for 'Hawks fans. End of an era.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)When the owners didn't stand up for their players when fuckface was calling them sons of bitches, I quit watching. They should have publicly told that asshole to go fuck himself.
I'm happy watching soccer and hockey. Don't miss football at all. The games are too damn long anyway.