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Doesn’t the Coliseum seat like 90,000?
I’m not sure that’s a representative sample.
There’s a Twitter site called “Empty Seats” or something like that. I’ll bet they’ll have your sample. I’m a bit busy at the moment.
I read that attendance was actually slightly up this weekend.
I put on my jersey and watched my team; a rare in market game for me since I live 1200 miles away from their home city. At this point, the protests have largely died down, and those that continue to protest have a huge variety of reasons for doing so, so it’s not exactly effective. But I’ve never supported any NFL boycotts, no matter who was calling for them this year. I remain okay with the refusal to hire Kaepernick, and okay with players making idiots of themselves by kneeling. Based on the number of service members at the games I watched today, the weekend truce held.
How sad.
That picture is misleading. Here is the real scoop if you’re interested:
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/10/09/jerry-jones-gives-cowboys-players-ultimatum-stand-for-anthem-or-sit-for-game.html
I’m not a fan of Jones particularly but have always followed the Cowboys since I was born in Dallas. I don’t quite get boycotting an entire league over the idiotic actions of some players. When I do watch football I’m not thinking about the political or religious positions of any of the players but rather how well they perform athletically. The Cowboys are having a down year but I’ll still follow them, I’m not a fair weather fan.
I think most boycotts are a little kooky and ineffective but if you must boycott something at least get your facts straight first.
LA teams and a number of others have had low attendance for a number of years now, except when the Cowboys come to town. It’s not politics that is biting into the fan base but Soccer. I don’t follow soccer, don’t understand it and don’t much care. But the younger folks seem to love it. They believe it is safer and they don’t seem to care that in the words of Antonin Scalia, “In soccer everyone runs around furiously while nothing much happens.” Both Football and Soccer are fads and like all fads they come and go.
What’s sad? That despite all the calls for boycotting, it didn’t work and attendance was slightly up? That overwhelmingly the few players still protesting did not do so in honor of Veterans Day weekend? That some NFL fans are refusing the calls to boycott coming from both the left and the right and just going on with life? I do not agree with the premise that protesting during the U.S. National Anthem is an anti-veteran, anti-troops statement.
And the veterans in my life – the ones that I interact with on a daily basis, not only on the internet – have not joined the boycott. Many, many vets have, but many others haven’t – because they have diversity of opinion on this too. One of our closest friends, an OIF vet, is currently dominating our Fantasy Football league. He was all over Facebook celebrating our shared favorite’s unexpected triumph yesterday. People are different, and they see this issue differently.
Or maybe it’s just that the 3-6 Bears simply suck.
I love football. But I don’t watch the NFL anymore. It’s hard but necessary.
At least we don’t have this nonsense in the CFL.
I know I am probably repeating what folks have said in many different ways but I dislike the fact that our culture believes that because one is an entertainer (whether it is actors who spend their days pretending they are someone else or sports players engaged in a pretend war battle) has something more insightful or important to say about social issues than my friends who work an average regular paying job. I love my baseball as a diversion after a day’s work but if they began to turn into social commentators, I’d pull the plug.
I have stopped watching the NFL because I cannot give a damn about a bunch of folks who have largely been privileged since about the 5th or 6th grade when it became apparent that they were good athletes. They got to slide through junior high school, high school, and college (at least as far as they went in college) solely on the basis that they were bigger, faster, and stronger that most of us. You have to look no further than the mess at UNC where the athletes were steered towards non-existing classes where everyone got As or B+s despite never going to class.
Many of these guys got into school with grades, SAT scores, etc that would be an embarrassment if they those credentials were widely known.
It infuriates me to see these folks who have been given break, after break, after break, complain about how unfair it all is.
I find it impossible to do anything but to hope that both teams could lose.
Wouldn’t it be great if next year, suddenly new player contracts were much smaller in dollars because of lack of income from lack of ticket sales? It would still be a huge amount of money (at least from my standards) but instead of some WR walking away with a contract worth a few million, he ends up with a few hundred thousand? That would make me happy.
TV money is what funds those inflated salaries.
Fixed It For You. Sorry to be such an ignorant lout.
Kind of odd when you think about it. The outlay for two people at an NFL game is hundreds of dollars. It’s not chicken feed.
@jctpatriot and @stevec: In the famous NY Jets Joe Namath Superbowl 3, one of the controversial play is that the Baltimore Colts had a perfect play to win the game. Johnny Unitas has an open receiver down field but he didn’t see it because the jersey blended in with the marching band that was at the end of the field getting ready for half time. The point? HALFTIME ENTERTAINMENT WAS A MARCHING BAND!!!
How did we move as a culture where we are entertaining ourselves to death and vastly overpaying celebrities?