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On the heels of a 17.9 percent drop in ticket sales from one online reseller, another is
reporting numbers that almost double that.
We reported Friday that TickPick, an online reseller of tickets for all sorts of events,
recorded a drop of 17.9 percent in Week Four ticket purchases over Week Three.
Now another online broker of tickets, TicketCity, is reporting a drop by a whopping 31 percent
over last week, The Blaze is reporting.
At the same time last year, ticket sales dropped, but not nearly by this level.
"We have seen a massive decrease in NFL ticket purchases this past week in comparison
to years past.
Week 3 seems to usually have less ticket orders than week 2, but this year ticket purchases
are down more than 7 percent from this time last year," said TickPick's Jack Slingland.
This should really come as no surprise.
After a third week of mass protests by the NFL – the teams, the players, and now the
entire league – ratings are swirling the toilet bowl.
"There are people who are saying that this is my form of entertainment and I don't
want politics in my entertainment," said TickPick co-CEO Brett Goldberg, emphasizing
that he doesn't personally share that viewpoint, in an interview.
It's not just ticket sales that are taking a hit.
Through the first three weeks of the season, viewership for national telecasts of NFL games
is down 11 percent compared to last year.
The games averaged 17.63 million viewers for the first three weeks of last season, but
have dropped to just 15.65 million this year.
The ratings have bombed because the NFL has politicized the games.
People on the right are critical of the demonstrations against the National Anthem, and leftists
are angry at the perceived mistreatment of their hero, Colin Kaepernick, the former San
Francisco 49ers quarterback, who has yet to be signed by a team.
The protests have spread rapidly across the league after President Trump denounced them.
Even the NFL came out in defense of their players.
A CBS poll released yesterday showed that 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the
players' protests during the anthem.
Still 48 percent of Americans also disapprove of Trump's comments on the protesters, while
only 38 percent approve.
Democrats and independents believe the players are trying to protest what they see as unfair
police tactics, racism, and to stick up for others in their communities, but not trying
to disrespect the flag and anthem.
Most Republicans feel the players are, in fact, trying to show that disrespect.
At least seven in ten Americans feel the players are trying to draw attention to racism, and
what they see as unfair police tactics.
But most Republicans, and a third of Independents, feel in addition to that the players are trying
to disrespect the military and veterans.
Four in ten Americans overall think the players are trying to disrespect the flag and anthem
itself.
All eyes are on this weekend's games.
Will players "take a knee"?
How will fans react?
Will ratings take another nosedive?
What do you think?
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