Y'all Think It's Hyperbole, But Football is at a True Crisis Point

[OG Talk]

No but it matters to the companies that do business with the NFL and those companies don't want that negative press. The NFL does'nt generate money out of the air.

It can be argued that the NFL at this point is bigger than any of the companies that it uses as an ad revenue source..

So if Budweiser says goodbye, the league makes a deal with Miller

If McDonalds taps out the league can run to Burger King

If Coke leaves they can be replaced with Pepsi..


I honestly think the NFL could open their own fast food chains at this point and compete with some of their sponsors. Just name each burger joint after each team in their states and serve the same cheap processed food that all these major corps do..

Packers Chicken all throughout Wis...

Bengals Burgers in Ohio

Bronco Brewery. Get your Broncos Beer!!!

etc..etc...

This thing is bigger than Nino Brown

 

[duncanthetall]

Right. Those pink jerseys and shyt was just extra loot that put them over the top. My family full of women don't give a shyt they still watching and are more pissed at the saints bum asses than any domestic violence

lmao. right? I mean, it doesn't help that in half of these instances the female is still wit the dude. My moms is lookin at those bytches sideways.

I mean, all the females I know who watch football, and I mean actually watch it, play fantasy, know the starters.....none of them give a fukk about this shyt lmao. Its the Twitter feminists and news outlets like Huff Post and Deadspin who take the liberal media shyt to the next level whenever they see a whiny group to exploit and a "crisis" to jerk off.

Our squad is 2-0 anyways and we got rid of all of our nikkas wit potential to beat up females years ago anyways, so I'm good

 

[NYC Rebel]

NFL isn't stoping me from paying for my tickets to watch these games

 

[triplehate]

Fantasy football and gambling, you literally don't have to watch a play to participate.

That shield is a bulletproof vest

 

[GoldenGlove]

We need the NBA back more than ever...

These NFL brehs dumb af, maybe it's the concussions



Goodell

 

[jadillac]

have any of these sponsors pulled out tho? I know Radisson did, but other than that, that's it. The rest are just pointing the finger for PR purposes.

Fans havent stopped watching and that's all they care about.

Goodell will lay low and this will all blow oever.

 

[pete clemenza]

Goodell and the owners are to focused on money. They juice and squezze the sh*t outta everything. The players, the cities with stadium issues, tickets, the fans, seat licensing, blackouts, "now lets get into the pockets of the artist that performs at Superbowl halftime", etc. The money is there already and it keeps coming in by the boat load.. stop focusing on money so much and take care of the underlining issues. Players health, off field issues like DV, too many penalties/flags in games, etc.

 

[HoustonHeat]

I'm a woman and consider myself a feminist. I don't plan to stop watching the NFL and have not sold or given away my Texan tickets. None of my other female NFL friends have entertained that either. I didn't stop watching the NBA after Jason Kidd or Penny Hardaway and other favored players beat women, but I did stop being a fan of those individuals. I recognize that a few players have been exposed for their violent behaviors in the NFL recently, but if women were to boycott every organization that had men on deck that abused women, I wouldn't be able to buy groceries, watch ANY sporting event, movie, tv show, or support civil rights leaders.

Domestic violence permeates in all arenas, race, class and countries. Boycotting the NFL won't stop it, and the beer companies are not going to drop any major league anytime soon. And since I'm in Texas and my dude's family all played college football, I don't doubt that any future son of mine would also be attracted to playing football.

 

[GatorStaceyAdams]

This spectacle is hardly a long term issue- and it is safe to assume that the media will have moved on to much newer issues ( or witchhunts) before the playoffs this winter.

The NFL makes $$ off of tix/merch/views. Unless any of those drop precipitously, this press is simply bringing more eyes to the NFL. Which in turn = $$$.

We vote with our wallets in the league, and if youre truly sickened by the latest transgressions- chances are you ve already reduced your intake of NFL and NFL product. Once again, this is not a LT problem. Now player safety on the other hand

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

stop overreacting... NFL is doing fine. record profits, record ratings... relevent 24/7/365.... wake me up when those angry mobs actually show they bout that action (stop showing up to games/ stop buying merch / stop watching )

Yeah because sports that ruled never fall into obscurity ask boxing and horse racing

 

[Ronnie Lott]

You guys have your heads in the sand. I don't have an anti-football agenda, I'm just observing the facts. When Nike and Bud are preemptively shytting on your partnership, which has been mutually beneficial forever, you can clearly see the negative momentum has reached a fever pitch. When the media is no longer sweeping arrests and crimes under the rug but raising a consistent enough stink about it that teams and the league are revisiting every decision they make and changing them completely, you've reached a dangerous point. When significant magazines and shows are dedicating covers and panels to football and it has nothing to do with the actual product, you're in a bad place.

The fact they haven't forced Goodell out is baffling. You have to placate the mob in this situation, or they'll stay on your ass that much longer, with that much more vigilance.

Also, women and liberals watch football. What the fukk?

The nfl ain't goin nowhere breh. This is just an overreaction and piling on. The nfl is getting attacked so much because they are so gatdamn quick to appease all of its critics

 

[GatorStaceyAdams]

Yeah because sports that ruled never fall into obscurity ask boxing and horse racing

When was horse racing ever considered a sport?

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I find it odd that the media is literally trying to tear down the nfl, a league that they greatly profit from

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

i do think football/the nfl has peaked, but yall are overstating the nature of the "crisis" and how long it will take to fall off, football, imo still has at least one full generation before it really starts tumbling, too many middle-high school kids still firmly entrenched in the sport (with parents who still love the sport). the moral hysterics of this past month (or two) will pass and amazingly the injury piece is still trying to gain traction - i remember when i went to patrick willis' camp and interviewed mothers about the whole injury thing, a lot of them worry, but felt like you can't just live in fear of the worse thus deciding to let their kids play. a couple said they would start second guessing playing in high school and college, but many of these moms, esp the lower income ones weren't ready to pull the plug on the sport.

 

[OG Talk]

I find it odd that the media is literally trying to tear down the nfl, a league that they greatly profit from

Outside of guys like Keith Olberman nobody in the mainstream media is really going in that hard.. Most of the harshest critique is coming from indy "new" media sources like TMZ , Salon and Huffpo...Most of the big wigs are still carrying water for the league..