NFL Anthem protests: the market speaks

[Achilles]

December 11, 2017

NFL Anthem protests: the market speaks

By Thomas Lifson


No NFL teams are corporations with stocks traded on an exchange, so those of us convinced that the pusillanimity of the owners has damaged the value of their businesses have no market gauge to rely on. Except for one price signal on a publicly traded market: the value of aftermarket tickets to NFL games resold on sites like StubHub. Emily Zanotti writes on the Daily Wire:

It turns out, if you can still stomach a professional football game, you can now get tickets for about the same price as a couple of Starbucks lattes.
According to Vivid Seats, an NFL ticket reselling site, seat prices at most NFL stadiums have bottomed out, leaving fans able to snag a lower level seat for a Buffalo Bills game for an astounding three dollars. Tickets at center field, right on the fifty-yard line (typically hard to find), will run you around $30. (snip)
…even big-name teams aren't faring much better. Tickets to see the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field are going for around $20. Tickets to see the Green Bay Packers start at around $10.

Season tickets obviously are sold before the season begins, which means that next year’s season tickets should experience serous downward price pressure, unless the League takes action to change the blowback. But I expect that the most noticeable effect the owners will encounter will be reduced demand for luxury boxes. Companies pend vast sums on them because they create a pleasant, exciting atmosphere for their clients or associates. Inject political controversy into that experience and the advantages of the skybox evaporate.

I’ve never been to an NFL game (and never plan to go), so maybe I am wrong. But I am no longer watching their games on TV, so they no longer are able to rent my eyeballs to advertisers, and I know that I am not alone.
I am looking forward to next sale of an NFL team. My guess is that the seller is going to find out that the price of selling out the flag is much higher than anticipated.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...et_speaks.html

[Achilles]

NFL fan turnout so bad that Fox Sports is soliciting actors to play fans, fill seats at Sunday’s pre-game show

By Shepard Ambellas -

December 11, 2017


Tom St. George/Flickr
Warm bodies now getting paid to attend games, sit-in as ‘fans’

(INTELLIHUB) — It’s no big secret that NFL viewership and fan turnout at live games has diminished to all-time lows as teams struggle to sell even their lower-level tickets for as little as $3 and $4 after players decided to kneel during game numerous opening national anthems but no one would have ever thought it would come to the point to where fans have to be paid to fill stadium seats.
That’s right, you heard me, in the latest barrage of NFL shenanigans, Fox Sports has put out a casting call and is looking for Rams fans to attend Sunday’s pre-game in Los Angeles. The geniuses that took a knee to spite America have now created their own demise.
The solicitation posted on ProjectCasting.com reads:

Casting directors are now looking for NFL fans for Sunday, December 10th in Los Angeles, California.

Producers are seeking the following:

• We’re looking for LA’s biggest NFL fans to be a part of #NFLSunday’s Los Angeles Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles Pre Game Show!
  Calling all LA Rams fans!

Maybe we should give all that NFL money the players have been getting for decades to Monster Energy Supercross riders, athletes who really risk life and limb to do what they do.

Just some food for thought.

https://www.intellihub.com/nfl-fan-t...pre-game-show/

[Davy Crockett]

I think the big money is in TV.

Thought I read a few weeks ago that the NFL owed the networks a lot of money due to decreased viewership

[4Him]

Couldn't happen to a better bunch of folks. I called Jerry Jones the day after this all started. Told him if he was stupid enough to knee with his players I would enjoy watching him go broke. I am enjoying watching him go broke.

[Samuel Adams]

Laws of physics playing out.

Next ?

[Notto]

Seems like Fantasy Football has been getting more popular. People like making up their own teams instead of the real teams now.

[zzz281996]

I personally think it's a race issue. White people in particular don't like watching angry black men menacing each other. The showboating, gloating, taunting, and all the other unsportsmanlike actions done by the players detracts from the sporting aspect of the game. As someone once said, "Act like you've been there before!" Every action is turned into some kind of tribal dance. And yesterday we see a player trying to get to a fan in the stands. Yeah, like hell I'll go to a game. Not even for 10 bucks. Let alone watch it on TV.

[philjam]

One would think a story of this kind would include how much these so called actors were offered to act. And, an interview with at least a few of them. Suspicious?

[Rusty34]

They'll have to do what we did at all the NASCAR tracks. Remove lots of grandstands and paint all the seatbacks different colors so it's hard for the cameras to see that seats are empty.