After Getting BAD News Overnight, NFL Commish Just Emerged From 3Hr Meeting With SHOCK Announcement.
Major business players in the NFL held an emergency meeting yesterday, presumably to
pow wow over how they are going to fix their desperate situation and save their season.
It's reached a point of no return and now the league commissioner, Roger Goodell, who
allowed these players to protest for weeks on end and demanded everyone be patient has
to face the music of his bad decision.
Now, he's emerged with a sudden shocking announcement about the NFL that's been destroyed
under his "leadership."
There's no denying that boycotts are alive and well when with each new game there's
more empty seats than the week before.
Ratings are the lowest they've been in decades, big sponsors are dropping players as the hits
keep on coming.
While the outrage is obvious, the only ones who refuse to see it are those directly affected
by it – football players who insist on kneeling and league officials who continue to allow
it.
When word got out that NFL officials were going to be holding an emergency meeting over
the protests that have plagued their sport, the country thought they would emerge with
a "white flag" on the issue and announce a hail mary in hopes of saving themselves
from further failure.
Instead, they perpetuated the disappointment and sealed their unfortunate fate for the
rest of the season and perhaps even the future of the sport.
Despite the NFL and NFLPA calling it a "productive meeting," it was only productive in making
matters worse for their industry when it didn't seem like that could be possible.
After coming out of the three-hour pow wow, the statement on what they discussed and conclusions
they had come to was to continue to do . nothing about kneeling while "promoting a positive
social change and address inequality in our communities," the statement said.
That was the final nail in the NFL coffin since now the fallout from that had come to
fruition and a lot of people could soon be out of work.
A statement released jointly by the NFL and NFLPA after the meeting where 11 owners and
13 players were in attendance, said:
"Today owners and players had a productive meeting focused on how we can work together
to promote positive social change and address inequality in our communities.
NFL executives and owners joined NFLPA executives and player leaders to review and discuss plans
to utilize our platform to promote equality and effectuate positive change.
We agreed that these are common issues and pledged to meet again to continue this work
together."
"As we said last week, everyone who is part of our NFL community has a tremendous respect
for our country, our flag, our anthem and our military.
In the best American tradition, we are coming together to find common ground and commit
to the hard work required for positive change."
The meeting was supposed to be about the anthem, as the first and most important order of business,
as well as other league matters.
Just like NFL officials have done all season so far, they ignored that protesting part
and went on to innocuous stuff that won't matter in the long run based on the damning
news the NFL just got today.
Just when the NFL ratings seemed to have reached an all-time low, they dropped to a level that
they won't be able to recover from now and it has everything to do with players and officials
ignoring their fed-up fans.
The overnight ratings plummet was the final straw and is going to cost more that just
commercial revenue and stock values.
The Daily Mail reports:
The Tennessee Titans won their Week 6 game against the Indianapolis Colts on Monday,
but the real losers may be ESPN and the NFL, which suffered through the lowest-rated 'Monday
Night Football' game of the season.
MNF, which is broadcast by ESPN, had been losing viewers throughout the season, but
Monday's 6.1 rating in metered markets was its lowest of the 2017 season, according toDeadline.com.
(In other words: 6.1 percent of households in metered markets watched the game on Monday).
According to Deadline.com, Monday's game registered a 3.7 rating among adults 18-49
and drew in a total viewership of over 10.3 million.
Monday's Titans-Colts game came in 3 percent below ESPN's Week 6 broadcast from a year
ago, which drew only 8.4 million viewers in the 18-49 demographic.
The ultimate culprit might be the NFL's ongoing protests in which many players have
refused to stand during the national anthem as a way of raising awareness about police
brutality and injustice against minorities in America.
The demonstrations began in the 2016 season when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback
Colin Kaepernick first sat and then knelt for the anthem during the preseason.
And even though Kaepernick remains a free agent this year, the protests have become
much more frequent.
The bitter end result of their poor decision and rock-bottom ratings is that the NFL has
now lost their long-held title of "America's Favorite Sport."
Whether the industry cares about that fact or not, even if they pretend they don't,
it's going to be a long road to recover from, if they can.
They will start to care when it affects their paychecks and it's only a matter of time
before it does.
It's too late now to make a change, the fans have found better things to do with their
time and money.
Their actions spoke volumes when they had the chance to stop the protests and do the
right thing, and didn't.
The true tragedy is that the NFL has allowed entitled, misguided players destroy a favorite
past time that was brought people together.
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