Avoiding The Obvious

Irony day from an interesting note from the NFL. The NFL's ratings are down around 10% this year so far after the same period last year. It seems to be an across-the-board fall too. It's hard to take a three-week ratings drop as too much of a sign of anything, but people seem to be worrying. So what could be causing this? Well, so far, the leftist media has suggested the following possibilities:

(1) The evil NFL's ignoring concussions for so long has turned people off (read: the leftist media's attempt to tar the NFL over concussions has turned people off).

(2) Something something rich white owners!!

(3) Commissioner Roger Goddell's "abuses under the labor agreement" (agreed to by the players union) have finally turned people off. Outside arbitration! Outside arbitration!

Oddly, each of these things already existed for several years as the NFL's ratings kept soaring. Logic tells us that something that didn't turn people off in the past isn't the cause of turning them off today. So what has changed? Well, the black protests are new. Sure, they are only around 40 players out of 1,900, but the sports media pushes them as if there were thousands. And the networks have talked about it over and over throughout games.

But would the audience be the type to tune out because of this? Well, consider this. The NFL audience looks like this: middle class (60%) white (77%) male (55%) above the age of 35 (71%). That's the exact group for whom patriotism matters the most. Those are the people who served in the military, see war movies and vote hard right. Do you think they want to watch a tiny group of angry a-holes spew leftist, racist political statements accusing them of being evil while they're watching television? Doubt it.

Ironically, now that 10% of the audience has apparently found other pursuits, the players union which has been smearing the NFL with both barrels for a couple years now is worried. Why? Because the amount of money available for the players depends on the television revenues, which will fall if the ratings fall. Whoops. I guess they didn't think of that when they were whining about everything. The networks are worried too because their ad revenue will fall if the ratings fall -- or if their demographics switch to a less wealthy group. Probably should have thought about that before deciding to broadcast every single gesture made by a protesting player regardless of its insignificance.

Of course, irony is something the left often encounters. Take the University of Missouri. They pandered to a tiny group of nasty racist who wanted special privileges because they thought no one would do anything about it. Now their enrollment is down 8% or 2,100 students and they've lost around $30 million... money that will no longer feed the departments of the very people who pushed this crap. Hillary Clinton bragged about being the greatest debater ever and most experienced candidate ever, but couldn't even beat Trump. Shouldn't have raised expectations. As I mentioned the other day, liberals are now perplexed that after calling every Republican a racist no one listens to them when they call Trump a racist. After passing Obamacare over the extreme opposition of the American public, the Democrats are finding that the public keeps kicking them for doing it. The insurers who saw this as a great way to stick up the public now find themselves going broke and being demonized by their partners in crime, the Democrats. The leftist who gave us the safety-at-all-cost and we-are-all-victims generation are now finding themselves victimized by those they taught intolerance. The shamers are being turned on by other shamers.

And that's just the beginning. Karma's a bitch.

Thoughts?