NFL Executive Says The NBA Has Taken All The Attention Away from Super Bowl Week

[broller]

i dont really engage in the ratings war on here
folks are celebrating that the trade deadline stuff gets talked about more than the actual bball games.....think about that
yeah the deadline stuff happens for a week but then folks gonna be right back complaining about how the nba games are bad

Yeah it's bizarre. It's like it's a talkshow rather than a sport

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Yeah it's bizarre. It's like it's a talkshow rather than a sport

I mean, if we're going to reduce the NBA down to a talk show, then the NFL is nothing more than a vessel for White America to delude themselves of their misguided and vapid patriotism.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

This.

People would rather talk about the NBA than watch. That's why the ratings are in the gutter yet everyone has an opinion about shyt they aren't watching or enjoying. I'm sure the first Luka/Lakers game against Boston will be heavily promoted and garner some ratings but besides that? Eh.

The whole ratings are in the gutter thing is a myth.

NBA, MLB, NHL ,College Football, College Basketball etc ratings are all down 15-20% the last 5-10 years....

 

[YakSpiller]

Nobody outside of Kansas and Philly really cares about this game.

You either get another Mahomes championship or another year of insufferable Philly fans.



Boring ass matchup.

Also the general public already thinks the fix is in for KC

Lions or Bills making it would of had Americas attention.

I honestly forgot it was this weekend until someone asked me where I was watching

 

[thashiek]

I barely care. About media week, any narratives, any hype videos. I just want the game and half time show, followed by videos of black Philadelphians doing more electric slides and other celebratory dances.

Too much real life shyt has happened since the NFCCG. Mostly political and mostly negative. It's sapped some of the joy out of the game because football seems so insignificant right now.

 

[staticshock]

I ain’t cared about football since 28-3. Just watching to see if K.Dot performs Not Like Us

 

[BucciMane]

Idiots say this every year. .

 

[BucciMane]

More folks watch the NBA than ever before, so I don't know where you're getting this from. I don't know how many times it needs to be reiterated that cable is dying and it has affected the TV ratings of almost every single medium of entertainment. Folks don't consume the NBA like they used to (never mind the fact that ratings have absolutely no bearing on how it's viewed outside of this country), whereas the NFL is still widely watched by traditional methods, largely because of the older demographic(s) and because folks are typically at home on Sundays and they can plan an event around it.

As if it needs to be continuously stated in here, the TV ratings for the Superbowl are gonna be sky high, probably set recent records, but it won't have anything to do with football.

Go figure.

Much of what you said is not wrong, but the bolded is just not true and people say that every year.

 

[BucciMane]

I ain’t cared about football since 28-3. Just watching to see if K.Dot performs Not Like Us

One of the greatest games sports has ever seen..

 

[No1]

I ain’t cared about football since 28-3. Just watching to see if K.Dot performs Not Like Us

Top 5 day in American history.

 

[No1]

The whole ratings are in the gutter thing is a myth.

NBA, MLB, NHL ,College Football, College Basketball etc ratings are all down 15-20% the last 5-10 years....

College football is doing very well. I agree with a lot of what @Gil Scott-Heroin says about ratings but football is objectively the most popular sport in America. It doesn’t matter what day of the week it comes on. Moreover, there aren’t many games so it’s more like prestige television whereas other sports are like telenovelas.

That said, no one gives a fukk about this match up.

 

[Red Money]

Even without the NBA trade deadline, there’s no media angle for the chiefs having been there 3 years in a row and the 5th time in 6 years. What exactly are we supposed to be interested in?

And Philly being back so soon also leaves little to discover, only so much people care about the rematch as the rematch angle was played out last year.

You're joking right? It's never been a 3 peat in NFL history....

Do chiefs make history.... or does Philly get revenge and Jalen gets respect as a QB.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

You're joking right? It's never been a 3 peat in NFL history....

Do chiefs make history.... or does Philly get revenge and Jalen gets respect as a QB.

That’s not a story that carries the two weeks leading to the Super Bowl, and further diluted by chiefs fatigue due them having been there 5 times this decade. I think it will be a huge storyline after the SB is they win, but that’s hasn’t been supporting the run up to the SB

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Much of what you said is not wrong, but the bolded is just not true and people say that every year.

When I say it won't have anything to do with football, I'm talking about it in the context of record-viewership. You remove Kdot and the halftime show, itself, and have the game and nothing else, no ratings records are going to broken. In fact, it'll go in the opposite direction and the TV ratings will be as low as they've relatively ever been.

I make this point because you can hardly hang an argument on Superbowl ratings when much of it has to do with elements that aren't football-related.

I can just see now cats making a whole big deal about the Superbowl having x-amount TV Ratings as if it's reflective of the NFL product, completely disregarding the fact that an overwhelming amount of folks are simply tuning to yell MUSSSSTAAAAAAAAAARD!!!!1

 

[Supa]

Trade deadline news is now a ratings measure? The only thing that matters are the ratings for the actual games.

Saturday’s Lakers-Knicks NBA regular season game averaged 2.51 million viewers on ABC, down 8% from the same matchup on the same weekend last year (2.74M)

Y'all realize that nothing is going on NFL wise from the conference championship games until the Super Bowl. There's nothing to talk about. We know the matchups. There's no surprises. Everyone is waiting to watch the game.

The NBA/NFL debate is The Coliseum's console wars. We all know the NFL is the ratings king so there's nothing to debate.

We'll up this thread once the ratings drop.