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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:01 PM
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NFL Sees Signs Fans Are Turned Off
Source: AP

By BARRY WILNER

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NFL is seeing the early signs of cracks in fan loyalty.

Ten weeks into the owners' lockout of the players, Commissioner Roger Goodell noted Wednesday the negative effect the labor dispute is having on pro football.

"Clearly it has had an impact on the fans," Goodell said as the owners completed their spring meetings. "We see it in various metrics. There's been a noticeable change, TV ratings were down on the draft roughly 4 million people. NFL.com traffic (is down), we see that."

Ticket sales also are down.

Read more: http://sports.excite.com/news/05252011/v5332.html
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:04 PM
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1. Poor babies...............
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:05 PM
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2. They are sooooo stupid for continuing this bullshit
It took the MLB years to recover from the strike in 94.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:25 PM
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3. Step one is losing interest; step two, as Ray Lewis ASTUTELY pointed out...
We all riot.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:26 PM
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4. and start murdering people. Something Lewis knows a bit about.
:hide:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:32 PM
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5. Oh, he didn't murder him! He just watched someone else do the killing
and left the scene of the crime...unless, of course, the others were covering up for him, which I doubt they would do since he's rich and famous and that never happens!
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 09:26 AM
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10. Details, joey. Details.
:P
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:19 PM
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6. I was turned off in 1989.
mim knows why.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 09:27 AM
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11. Three Super Bowl Rings, El.
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Blacksheep214 Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 08:11 PM
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7. 1994
I haven't been back to a baseball game since.

Football players give up some of their life for the game and should be fairly treated in retirement. Baseball players don't do jack for their millions.

Football, you're on notice! Don't fuck around!
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:41 AM
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9. I'm a Packer fan too

Had a Super Bowl champ icon at the bottom until I put up the State of Wisconsin Solidarity icon.
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Blacksheep214 Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 11:48 AM
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12. Not just a fan
but a shareholder too!

I am management.

Play ball!
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Kurska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 10:24 PM
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8. A lot of NFL cities have NHL, Baseball and Soccer teams.
The Florida panthers put out a wonderful add. "You don't know if they'll play next year, we will, get your season tickets now."
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:56 PM
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13. Let Goodell take a half dozen hard hits every week and then get back to me.
Edited on Thu May-26-11 01:56 PM by RUMMYisFROSTED
Fuck the owners!
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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 02:47 AM
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14. How can you really tell in the off season
that fans are losing interest? People aren't really tuning in or going to NFL.com because they're sick of listening to shit about the labor dispute. For the average person (IMHO) it comes down to a fight between millionaires and billionaires and people aren't interested in that. Now I know some of us have interest in this because it's a labor issue, but for the general sports-following public, they don't find labor disputes interesting. I'd compare it to recent preseasons the same way some people were leary of going to NFL.com, or reading up on NFL discussions because they were sick of listening to the Brett Favre horse shit.
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