Tuesday, October 13, 2020

If you are a sports fan, you had BETTER hope Biden wins.

Because, if the present ratings are any indication, sports as you know them are FINISHED if Trump wins a second term.

Over the course of the last 3-6 months, there has been an explosion of anti-Black anti-athlete sentiment, that now a movement of White Nationalism has ordered the takedown of the American Sports Machine.

If they're gonna do it, they better do it on all levels, high school on up.

But the evidence is utterly inescapable.  We'll start with the NFL and how I've been compiling year over year results on the ratings:

  • Week 1:
  1. Thursday Night Opener:  -16%, and that was with Patrick Mahomes
  2. Sunday National:  +8% to the highest for any regular season window since 2016.  Tom Brady's first game in Tampa.
  3. Sunday Night:  -15%  Lowest Week 1 in 12 years for SNF.
  4. Sunday Single:  -12%
  5. Sunday Regional:  +7%
  6. MNF Game 1:  -21%
  7. MNF Game 2:  -38%
  • Week 2: 
  1. Sunday Single:  +6%
  2. Sunday Regional:  Under 10 million viewers.
  3. Sunday National:  Just short of 19 million.
  4. SNF:  Lost about 5 million viewers vs. last year.
  5. MNF had a dualcast stunt, so it did gain a quarter of viewers, but that was because the game was on both ABC and ESPN.
  • Week 3: 
  1. Sunday National:  +1%, largely because it had both Tom Brady and the Cowboys.
  2. MNF:  30%+ increases, but it took the Game of the Year (KC-Baltimore) to get it.
  3. SNF:  -7% ratings, -4% viewers to the worst SNF Week 3 in 14 years.
  4. Sunday Single:  -11%
  5. Sunday Regional:  -15% ratings, -23% viewers 
  • Week 4:  
  1. SNF:  Down about 40% year over year.
  2. MNF:  Regular game was down about 17% to the worst MNF Week 4 rating in 15 years
  3. Sunday Regional:  Down about a third.
  4. Sunday National:  -12% ratings, -6% viewers.
  5. Sunday Single:  -7% ratings, +2% viewers, Cowboys game prominent.
  6. Some conservative media outlets are reporting upwards of 70% viewer losses for that week, but, even though several of these numbers are concerning, these are the numbers from the sources I'm getting.
  • Week 5 (most Sunday numbers not yet available): 
  1.  SNF:  Early numbers indicate about 11 1/2 million for the Sunday Night game (ShowBuzzDaily)
  2. The last 45 minutes of the Sunday National block drew about 19 1/2 million (ShowBuzzDaily)

But that might not compare to the NBA Finals:

  1. Game 4:  4.4 rating, 7.54 million viewers.  (Only the second non-NFL sporting event since "Day One" (March 11) to even get to 7.5M.  Last year, March 11-October 11, 17 made it to ten million, 30 made it to 7.5M.
  2. Game 3:  5.94 million viewers (where Game 3 last year got 13.35M.)
  3. Game 2:  6.61 million viewers (last year:  13.89M)
  4. Game 1:  7.41 million viewers (last year:  13.38M)  (Those numbers from Sports Media Watch)
  5. And Game 5, from ShowBuzzDaily?  About 5.9 million.  (Last year, Game 5 got 18.6 million!)

Still don't wanna believe me about a White Nationalist movement in this country targeting sports?

Let's try college football, from Sports Media Watch:

  1. ABC is reporting routine 40-50% drops for their lesser-scheduled Saturday Night prime-time games.
  2. FOX and ESPN have reported small increases for Saturday afternoon action
  3. And the SEC action has shown some return to normalcy...
  4. ... but 36 of the 48 so far national broadcast windows for college football are behind. 

Major League Baseball is also feeling the heat:

  • The first 14 games of the Division Series (which would be all but the last game of Yankees-Rays) are down 37% over the first 14 games of the Division Series last year. 

And if you think this isn't an anti-Black racist sentiment, I got one more for you from Sports Media Watch:

  • Though well down year over year, there has been one sport which outdrew every hockey playoff game and all of the postseason baseball:  NASCAR!  Even though Talladega's "ROVAL" playoff race) was well down from previous years, it held well with the rest of their 2020 schedule.

A lot of White people have been taunting, "Get Woke, Go Broke."

If you believe that shit, then you are openly endorsing silence over all of the things which White People are allowed to get away with (up to and including rape, murder, etc. -- both within the scope of sports and outside it!).

But you best understand, especially if you are NOT one of the Conservative preferred, that there could be a very real chance those stadium palaces could be converted into something akin to the Roman Colosseum if the Insane Orange Bastard wins a second term.

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