For those who think the NFL is declining

[flyerhawk]

NFL Games Account for 75 of the 100 Most-Watched Broadcasts of 2021

The League justified its mega-billion-dollar media rights renewals with a season that underscored its status as TV's last great reach medium

www.sportico.com

In a year marked by a pair of ratings-hogging quadrennial events and a whole lot of Beltway intrigue, the NFL in 2021 effectively swallowed TV whole, accounting for 41 of the top 50 most-watched programs, and 75 of the top 100. In doing so, the league not only silenced the torrent of uninformed hooting and clucking that greeted last season’s COVID-related ratings declines, but it also justified the huge rights-fee increases it brokered with its legacy partners.

All those predicting doom and gloom pretty much got it wrong completely.

 

[MTVike]

NFL Games Account for 75 of the 100 Most-Watched Broadcasts of 2021

The League justified its mega-billion-dollar media rights renewals with a season that underscored its status as TV's last great reach medium

www.sportico.com

All those predicting doom and gloom pretty much got it wrong completely.

Doesn't matter to them, they quit watching it, remember?

 

[flyerhawk]

Doesn't matter to them, they quit watching it, remember?

Oh right. That was the proof that the NFL was dead.

 

[Ojb81]

Doesn't matter to them, they quit watching it, remember?

Hrumph!!

 

[Carnzo]

Go Pat's!

 

[Fountain City Blues]

I was told (and still for that matter) that Kaepernick would bring the NFL to ruins.

I guess they've moved on to spamming Lebron's twitter account with "LeChina" nowadays.

 

[PDay8810]

I musta missed ALL those predicting doom and gloom. I mean there is an idiot on every street corner but who were all those people?

Only problem with the NFL is from within. Politically Correct and Greed are hard acts to balance...but Doom & Gloom??

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Truth is, theses days the NFL is practically the only thing on network television worth watching. Most people are streaming uncut, new release movies and watching grittier and better dramatic series on Netflix, Prime or wherever. The NFL doesn't have much real competition on regular cable anymore so this is no surprise.

 

[Boglodyte]

Too many lazy fucks glued to their TV on a Sunday.

 

[PDay8810]

Truth is, theses days the NFL is practically the only thing on network television worth watching. Most people are streaming uncut, new release movies and watching grittier and better dramatic series on Netflix, Prime or wherever. The NFL doesn't have much real competition on regular cable anymore so this is no surprise.

Sorry....the NFL has owned television for a long ass time and it's only been strengthened over the last 20 years

 

[PDay8810]

Too many lazy fucks glued to their TV on a Sunday.

Yep
I prefer Sunday over Saturday

 

[Boglodyte]

Yep
I prefer Sunday over Saturday

If you watch more than one game on Saturday or Sunday, you are missing out on life

 

[Kings4OT]

It is up 17% so my guess is they are done being mad and need to watch the ball questing

 

[PDay8810]

If you watch more than one game on Saturday or Sunday, you are missing out on life

Well
I've been doing that on many occasions for 50 plus years now. I think after 45 years of marriage, 3 sons and 9 grandkids, I hadn't missed a whole lot.
Thanks for your concerns.

 

[Boglodyte]

Well
I've been doing that on many occasions for 50 plus years now. I think after 45 years of marriage, 3 sons and 9 grandkids, I hadn't missed a whole lot.
Thanks for your concerns.

It wasn’t serious…

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sorry....the NFL has owned television for a long ass time and it's only been strengthened over the last 20 years

Absolutely they have but they no longer have any real competition so they aren't going to falter any time soon.

 

[Debbie Does]

Truth is, theses days the NFL is practically the only thing on network television worth watching. Most people are streaming uncut, new release movies and watching grittier and better dramatic series on Netflix, Prime or wherever. The NFL doesn't have much real competition on regular cable anymore so this is no surprise.

This^^^^.

I don't watch local TV or network TV or cable TV. We stream Netflix or Amazon, but we don't just put the idiot box on just to have commercials and other noise thrown at us.

I don't watch the NFL either. Virtue signaling and kneeling have pissed the GF off. She also hates anything she thinks is violent, which is practically anything other than stupid sitcoms and game shows.

It's the total failure of network TV that's increasing NFL ratings, not the NFL. The only drama in this year's playoff race has been fighting among the bottom feeders for the extra wild-card slots, which we don't need anyway.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

I don't watch the NFL anymore because it is literal slavery.

 

[Golden Spur]

I don't watch the NFL anymore because it is literal slavery.

I think the NFLPA won concessions to make it figurative slavery, was in the contract.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

I think the NFLPA won concessions to make it figurative slavery, was in the contract.

Finally! Free at last!!!