A national survey conducted by the Remington Research Group reveals that 64% of Americans are ready to boycott the NFL over their disgraceful national anthem protests.
The public poll highlights two things: Firstly, Americans largely agree with Donald Trump. Secondly, if NFL players don’t drop their disrespectful narcissistic behaviour, NFL will soon cease to be popular as citizens turn away from the sport in their droves.
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Breitbart.com reports: While this is only one survey this is a survey conducted after President Trump declared war on NFL protesters in Alabama last Friday night, and if this poll is any indication, that war is already over.
The survey addresses the Trump factor directly:
Q7: Last week, Donald Trump said NFL players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem. Do you think NFL players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem?
Yes: 64%
No: 25%
Unsure: 11%
Q8: On Sunday, a number of NFL players knelt during the national anthem in protest of Donald Trump’s statements, including players from your favorite team. Does this make you more likely or less likely to watch your favorite team’s games in the future?
More likely: 30%
Less likely: 50%
No difference: 20%
That two-question sequence is devastating for the NFL. Within the space of those questions, the poll establishes that a significant majority of the American people agree with what Trump said in Alabama on Friday night. Moreover, it also shows that the NFL’s response to President Trump was a complete failure.
Not only that, the poll shows that President Trump is more popular than NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell personally:
Q1: What is your opinion of Donald Trump?
Favorable: 46%
Unfavorable: 47%
No opinion: 7%
Q2: What is your opinion of Roger Goodell?
Favorable: 12%
Unfavorable: 36%
No opinion: 52%
This crystallizes, as Daniel Flynn noted on the sports page a few days ago, just how well Donald Trump has chosen his enemies. In picking a fight with the NFL, headed-up by Roger Goodell, Trump pits himself against people that the public essentially loathes. Making it next to impossible for him to come out the loser in any kind of PR conflict. While President Trump may have his difficulties from time-to-time, he is infinitely more popular than the people he’s criticizing.
As for the popularity of the player protests themselves? That doesn’t look good for the NFL either:
Q4: Now, just thinking about this year, have you watched more football or less football compared to previous years?
More football: 19% [GO TO Q6]
Less football: 51% [GO TO Q5]
About the same: 30% [GO TO Q6]
Q5: Why would you say you are watching less football this year?
Players using the NFL as a stage for their political views: 69%
New rules that reduce physical contact: 5%
There are too many games during the week: 6%
Games last too long: 2%
Pace of play is too slow: 2%
Something else: 12%
Unsure: 4%
Q6: Do you think NFL players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem?
Yes: 64%
No: 24%
Unsure: 12%
This shows a public backlash against the substance and style of the protests. Not only has all the activism driven fans away from watching the games. The fans also substantively disagree with the players using the anthem as a tool for protest. A point buttressed by these follow-up questions:
Q9: Do you support protesting during the national anthem at the beginning of NFL games, or is there a more appropriate place for players to protest?
Support: 31%
There is a more appropriate place to protest: 60%
Unsure: 9%
Q10: In the future, would you prefer to see more politics, less politics, or the same amount of politics during sporting events?
More politics: 7%
Less politics: 80%
Same amount: 13%
The partisan breakdown of the poll is disastrous for the league as well:
Most Americans, 51%, say they have watched less football this year compared to the past. Of respondents who said they have watched less football this year, 69% cite their reason as players using the NFL as a stage for their political views.
Republicans and Non-Partisans have been cutting back on watching football at a higher rate than Democrats, as 66% of Republicans say they have watched less football this year compared to 33% of Democrats. Among Non-Partisans, 55% reported they have watched less football this year compared to the past.
The macro numbers in this are bad, of course, with a majority saying they’ve watched less football. However, one would think that with the NFL’s embrace of left-wing politics, that they would at least gain some Democrats while losing Republicans and Indies. Clearly, that is not the case. It turns out even a significant portion of Democrats are turned off by what they’re watching on Sunday.
Again, this is one survey, others will have to come out showing similar things in order to draw long-lasting conclusions. However, if these numbers are accurate, the heavyweight bout between the leader of the free world and the richest sport in the land, is a first-round, one-punch knockout.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
No surprise here. Whenever an organization takes a side in a political debate it spells doom for them. Just plain stupid to allow employees to voice their political BS on company time.
yes yes yes.. and yes again.. correct
It is beyond time for these NFL players to fully understand that 100% of their fame comes from the fans they alienate.
Judging by the questions asked, this poll has to be 2 or 3 years old.
“On Sunday, a number of NFL players knelt during the national anthem in protest of Donald Trump’s statements”
Big fan, but I won’t watch any of their games on T.V., I won’t buy any products remotely associated with them, and I am not ever setting foot in any of their stadiums again. Might consider changing my mind if: #1 Roger Goodell is gone, this crap all happened on his watch. #2 ALL players must stand in respect to Flag and National Anthem (the real one). #3 No political statements ever again, play football and shut the **** up, if it’s not about football, I don’t need the NFL’s opinion. #4 National apology to fans for letting this crap get so far out of hand, and forgetting who makes them rich.
If these things are done then maybe I will become a fan again.
Absolutely I and everyone I know feels the same way. I have not missed football and I am also boycotting the NBA they are all a bunch of overpaid crybabies, I don’t think I will ever have anything to do with these fools.
The salary cap for the 2020-21 season is actually $20 million higher than it should be. The cap of $160 million would cause absolute chaos in the league, so each owner is being asked to take a $20 million dollar hit, so it can be $180 mil. The league wants all TV networks to pay double what they did in the last TV contract. If the league can get them to do that, the NFL would be on reasonably solid footing, and that would suck. I’m hoping they wake the heck up and tell the NFL no. I’m hoping revenues continue to plummet, and the cap will be so low by the 2022-23 season(if there is one; we could be at war by then) that the players walk out and break their CBA.
NFL will soon mean NO FANS LEFT!!!
where’s the Bullshit button?
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