Insulting half the country is bad for TV ratings. The “geniuses” who run America’s sports leagues still don’t understand that. In fact, they are moving further to the Left. It’s shocking. Politics should not be inserted into sports programming. Sports should be an escape from politics. Especially in these difficult times.
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Bucs’ rout of Chiefs earns worst Super Bowl rating since 1969
By Washington Post, February 9, 2021
The considerable star power of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Kansas City Chiefs counterpart Patrick Mahomes was not enough to attract the kind of audience the NFL has enjoyed for its championship game over the past dozen years. While the Super Bowl continued to garner numbers that dwarf all other television programming, Sunday’s installment, in which the Bucs throttled the Chiefs, 31-9, continued a downward trend.In an unusual move, Nielsen delayed unveiling its ratings until Tuesday, prompting speculation that the news wasn’t good for the NFL or its advertising partners. The market measurement company eventually announced Super Bowl LV “drew an average TV audience of about 92 million viewers.” The game also garnered a 38.2 U.S. household rating and was viewed in an average of 46.2 million homes.[the_ad id=”110283″]CBS, which broadcast the game, said Tuesday the game drew 96.4 million viewers across a variety of platforms, including streaming services. CBS said its digital audience was 5.7 million, the most to live-stream any NFL game, representing a 65 percent increase over last year’s Super Bowl.
The network later clarified (per Sportico) that its audience for the traditional broadcast was 91.6 million. Compared with Nielsen figures for every Super Bowl telecast, this year saw a 9.6 percent decrease from the 101.3 million who watched the game in 2020, and a 19.9 percent drop from the record audience of 114.4 million in 2015, when the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks in a stunning finish.
This year’s game did not provide nearly as much drama, with the Bucs taking a 15-point lead at halftime and relentlessly pressuring Mahomes into the worst performance of his NFL career. That could have contributed to the lower audience, as could a relative lack of Super Bowl parties amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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I have PROUDLY not watched one game since the afro’ed one took his first knee.
I haven’t watched a professional sporting event of any kind since before last years Super Bowl. The more I haven’t watched the more I haven’t missed any of them. News programs haven’t been watched in years.
I made the family some “Super Bowl” snacks, but we never turned the game on. We played games with the kids (Crazy 8s, Deer in the Headlights, et cetera) and enjoyed our seven layer dip, zucchini pizza bites, Buffalo dip, and brownies.
I even made three bean chili. This year I added a lima, green, and garbanzo bean to it. As of last night, we’ve only found the green bean…
I didn’t watch it. The only reason that I would give a damn in the least about it was for the satisfaction of Mahomes losing and I have nothing against him at all. In fact, I think he is a decent guy but if he won we would be hearing for weeks about how the white QB in pro ball will soon be obsolete and the greater athleticism of blacks would soon dominate at this position. I really don’t follow football enough to know if Brady is a decent guy but I have to admit he is probably the best that ever played at his position. The man deserves respect for that much.
Alienating half the American population seems to have no affect on these liberal shills.
However, wanna bet CHINA biden will bail them out eventually?
So, STOP WATCHING SPORTS, AMERICA! With men participating in women’s sports, with football and basketball forcing everyone to kneel before a BLACK flag, with liberals running this country, you may all want to invest in FOREIGN COMPANIES, and I say that with a heavy heart as our American companies are already moving out of America and going to 3rd-world countries for their CHEAP LABOR, undoing everything Trump tried to do FOR AMERICA(NS).
Well, Democrats, be careful what you wish for because when you get it, IT WILL BACKFIRE ON YOU QUICKLY. Those of us who saw the writing on the wall, prepared for what your side is doing and not many of us will be affected until Trump or some PRO-AMERICAN person runs for President to beat ‘china biden’.
ALL THESE ANTICS BY DEMOCRATS MAKES ME LAUGH DAILY. When the crap hits the fan and it all backfires on them and the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS START PUSHING BACK AND SCREAMING AT THESE LEFTIST DULLARDS, hopefully, they will go back into their deep, dark, dank holes, never to been seen or heard of again.
PATHETIC VILE DEMOCRATS………………
Alienating half the American population seems to have no affect on these liberal shills.
However, wanna bet CHINA biden will bail them out eventually?
So, STOP WATCHING SPORTS, AMERICA! With men participating in women’s sports, with football and basketball forcing everyone to kneel before a BLACK flag, with liberals running this country, you may all want to invest in FOREIGN COMPANIES, and I say that with a heavy heart as our American companies are already moving out of America and going to 3rd-world countries for their CHEAP LABOR, undoing everything Trump tried to do FOR AMERICA(NS).
Well, Democrats, be careful what you wish for because when you get it, IT WILL BACKFIRE ON YOU QUICKLY. Those of us who saw the writing on the wall, prepared for what your side is doing and not many of us will be affected until Trump or some PRO-AMERICAN person runs for President to beat ‘china biden’.
ALL THESE ANTICS BY DEMOCRATS MAKES ME LAUGH DAILY. When the crap hits the fan and it all backfires on them and the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS START PUSHING BACK AND SCREAMING AT THESE LEFTIST DULLARDS, hopefully, they will go back into their deep, dark, dank holes, never to been seen or heard of again.
PATHETIC VILE DEMOCRATS………………
americans that run these institutions are traitors and beholden to china
After seeing that ad, I’m never buying a Jeep, Bruce.
Hear he got nabbed for drunken driving just a few days ago too. He is nothing but a pretend friend of working people. He is nothing more than an old, insignificant sissyboy now trying to think he is important. He never really was very good, much like “Stinkfinger Joe” and the years have not improved him. I will say I don’t think he is taking money from china but who knows even on that.
It just takes one a$$hole to destroy a decades old brand name. Jeep must be thrilled hey Bruce?
I actually sent Jeep a letter to that effect.
Almost 60% of NFL players are Black and just over 25% are white. it’s got to sting racial justice and critical race theory Leftys that the best player in the game is white and he’s the face of the league. Gee, I guess meritocracies work after all.
The Gronk is pretty fair too. Probably the best at that position.
And you do not watch!
NASCAR went off the cliff years ago when they disregarded their base. It can happen to any sport.
The Pettys disgraced their good name with that fool they had driving.
Die NFL DIE!
9.6% drop in numbers watched? Sorry, but in light of the NFL not backing the Pledge of Allegiance as a show of respect for the country, I don’t see that as an abominable decline. After 9/11, the New York City schools which had not required the Pledge since 1966, the height of anti-War protests about Vietnam, reinstated the Pledge. That’s right, they had 35 years without the Pledge being required in the public schools which enroll approx. 1,000,000 kids a year. Then its was reinstated. But not all schools were in compliance and there was no enforcement of the so-called “mandate.” At that time, I was teaching high school. The school I was in complied with the mandate, but after a year or two, compliance lapsed. Further, we noted that the freshmen all stood for the Pledge, about half the sophomores, 2-4 individual students would stand among the juniors, and none (or, occasionally, one) would stand during the senior homerooms. Then the school (with 5000 students) stopped having the Pledge everyday over the public address system. I asked why and received a mealy-mouthed answer that no one was available to recite it. Myself and three other teachers did a room by room survey to see which, if any, rooms did not have an American flag which needed to be put up, and we nagged the principal about re-starting the Pledge. I’m happy to report it was re-started and continues to this day, with the same pattern of compliance noted earlier in this comment. At one point, a principal ruled that students did not have to stand but they could not talk during the Pledge and could not turn their backs on the flag. So, when you realize that this only one school in compliance in leftist NYC and what it took to have this maintained even after 9/11, you can get a sense at how much patriotic sentiments have dissipated in the country. The latest crap is that this same high school, last summer, on its webpage, under a different principal from 20 years ago recommended to parents, teachers, administrators, and students that, over the summer, they read Ibram X. Kendi’s book How To Be An Antiracist, a book in which there are many unacceptable ideas, and one of them is that rejecting racism means rejecting capitalism. Thus, anti-patriotism can literally be dated back 55 years, and the reaction (really, overreaction) to being opposed to the Vietnam War was rooted in anti-Americanism that extended back many years before 1966. So you see friends, we are not simply “descending in the mud.” We are immersed and suffocating within the mud. Blessings, Jack
I like your comment except for the part about the Viet Nam war.
It’s true that the Left – with shills like Hanoi Jane Fonda – stoked
anti-Americanism with their message that big bad imperial America
had total disregard for the lives of the Vietnamese people.
That is not why I and millions of other Americans were so furiously
against the war. It was because our own American government had total
disregard for the lives of our military men.
Back in those days – the late sixties – there were no videos and cell phones
and no Internet. Every night on the 6 PM and 11 PM news they would
show the pictures of the men who had been killed in Viet Nam. They
would also show their bodies arriving in military coffins. Every single night.
And for what? To save some far off strange foreign land from Communism?
That our own kids and loved ones should die for that?! The people rose
up enmasse against the war. I was in my early twenties and protested
right along with them. It got so that soldiers returning from Viet Nam were
abused by many Americans although I never believed in doing that.
My own cousin was killed in Nam. I can always picture him – tall, slender,
with a blonde crew cut and merry blue eyes. He will always be that way
in our hearts and minds as we ourselves have drifted into old age.
Guess what…. own American government still has total
disregard for the lives of our military men.
The NeoCon endless wars are the proof.
Trump 2024.
The tragedy is that they are as high as they are.
If you believe that half – if not more – of the fans are “patriots,” then what you are seeing here is cowardice. I’ve alienated friends and families by going toe to toe on this. If you watch the NFL then shut your f’ing mouth re: “we’re being treated unfair,” or “the election was stolen.”
Ditto if you use Twitter or Facebook, and I am disgusted to even see their links here.. Yeah, I know, Disqus includes them. You can’t avoid it. Even so: I don’t give “clicks” to my enemy. I don’t give views to the NFL.
I don’t fund my own destruction. I don’t send pallets of cash to people who want to nuke me.
Color me crazy.
The NFL should have cratered at this point. Viewership should be down by 50%, at least. I don’t care who was playing, what records are being broken, etc.
They hate me. They hate all Americans. They are openly at war with me and what I stand for.
They are the beast. Starve the beast. To economic death.
The overpaid millionaires in professional sports have nothing to do with me — they can rot for all I care.
The fake crowds remind me of Russia’s Potemkin villages and China’s empty cities – every thing is FAKE, everything is a LIE. We are living in a great big lie!
I’m proud to say I’m ahead of the curve on this one…a former NFL junkie, I gave up on pro sports back in the 80’s. I quit because many of the athletes–black athletes–were already displaying utter contempt for their white fans and setting such horrible examples in their public behavior. They are certainly free to do that, and I am free to make sure my money doesn’t subsidize it. Let all these millionaire athletes pursue their progressive cause of hating whitey. They are meaningless to me and I have no room for their overpaid silliness in my life.
I stop watching because I got tired of Bum Phillips saying “he gonna kick the door down, next year, next year, next year.”
Hopefully the National FELONS League. , will go bankrupt ! Adios , NFL AZZ-CLOWNS !
What the h!@# is the “black national anthem”? The half-time show was about as entertaining as watching my neighbor mow his lawn. The commercials were nothing more than an attack on Anglo/Saxon heritage. If a white athlete beats a black athlete , now this is considered racist? Are we not all Americans anymore? The “eagle has landed” , in the labraia tar pits.
Just stop watching the NBA & NFL & NHL totally!
Who won? No, I really do not care. Hope the Cardboard fans got their moneys worth.
It’s not like anybody should be surprised.
Just one look at halftime ritual and it will tell you who’s running the show today.
Satanic half time shows at the Stupid Bowl are old hat, y’all, been going on for years. Beyoncé and Madonna and Gaga and whatever little whores burgeoning in Hollywood come out and shake their booties in pornographic glee…etc. etc.
Anybody who watches American football deserves what they get which includes whining millionaire black players Rosa Parks–ing all over the field.
When Americans turn off their ‘social’ media for good, and turn off their TV’s for good and return to libraries and bookstores, when Americans start to think for themselves…
THEN WE’LL BE FREE!!
No Stupid Bowl for me. I have been an NFL fan for over 50 years. I am done as of 1/1/21. Same goes for the other major sports leagues. When they get rid of the political correctness and the stupid wokeism, I might reconsider. Besides, my NFL team hasn’t done jack for at least that long.
My team hasn’t done jack for the last 25 years or so and now they don’t even exist anymore.
Hail to the Redskins!
Just say no to the Washington Football Team no.33….or is it 34. I lost track.
This was the first NFL game I’ve watched in years. I wanted to see the old white guy win one more.
Even worse than inserting politics into sports is the idiocy of inserting disloyalty and anti-Americanism. The massive good will earned by Pete has been dissipated by the clowns following him.
I lost count of the number of times I rolled my eyes and cursed under my breath during the game and the weird half-time show. The only reason I watched is because my mother was invited to someone’s house to watch, and I’m her driver. Otherwise I would have watched reruns of Peter Gunn.
I chose not to watch and instead, walked over to a small park with a trash bag and rubber gloves and picked up trash because people from Mexico bring Mexican beer in cans & bottles and throw them around the park, the glass bottles get thrown down on the boulders by the creek. So I clean the park about every 2 weeks that the human SWINE trash. ONE day I’ll catch them in the act and let them know it’s not nice to leave trash in a tiny neighborhood park out in the country!
Per Sportico, above, the ratings are down basically 20% from their high.
How can that be, if “real Americans” are truly angry about the way they’re being treated?
How is it possible that the ratings aren’t down at LEAST 50%? If Trump really did win the election, then slightly more than half of the electorate were robbed. That’s elementary school mathematics.
Do you believe that, traditionally, the NFL is watched by the soyboi’s and other such people who support President Asterisk von Rapeyfingers? Seriously? You think that 80% of the NFL’s viewers have normally voted demoncrat?
If not… then how are we still seeing 80% of the record, tuning in?
How many “conservatives” actually give a damn?
If you watched the SuperBowl, or any NFL or NBA game, allow me to share: you’re a coward. You have no standing in any “we will fight this!” kind of discussion here or elsewhere. You are worse than the communists… you pretend to be one thing, while you’re actually another.
Yeah, tell me about your “Lapua” and your “molon labe” stickers. Tell me about your trip to Omaha Beach a few years ago and how you were “moved by the sacrifice,” while you’re too weak and soft to even deny yourself a day watching football. Yeah, how “patriotic” you are…
Sitting with cardboard cut outs and canned cheering.
Madness, and the sheep went babaaa baaaa ba.
Ratings, beratings, whoopdeedo! I think this year’s stupor bowl did set a record for the number of cardboard cutouts in the stands. Once the NFL can develop cardboard mannequins capable of buying and consuming popcorn, peanuts, crackerjacks, beer, soda, and hotdogs, the NFL will have no further use for real people.
Only 1/5 of the stadium was allowed to have people. Once the NFL is fully funded by the socialist/communist government so that paying customers are no longer necessary, then the NFL will have no further use for real people.
Ratings, beratings, whoopdeedo! I think this year’s stupor bowl did set a record for the number of cardboard cutouts in the stands. Once the NFL can develop cardboard mannequins capable of buying and consuming popcorn, peanuts, crackerjacks, beer, soda, and hotdogs, the NFL will have no further use for real people.