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Title: National Survey: Americans Agree with Trump on National Anthem and NFL Protests
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201 ... -national-anthem-nfl-protests/
Published: Sep 26, 2017
Author: Dylan Gwinn
Post Date: 2017-09-26 12:13:32 by nolu chan
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Views: 3156
Comments: 19
National Survey: Americans Agree with Trump on National Anthem and NFL Protests
by Dylan Gwinn
Breitbart
26 Sep 2017
The Remington Research Group has just conducted a public poll, which shows two things very clearly. First, the American people agree with Donald Trump when it comes to NFL anthem protests. Second, if the NFL doesn’t cease allowing their league to become a fashion show for narcissistic SJW-wannabe’s, college football will be the most popular sport in America within five years.
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.
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college football will be the most popular sport in America within five years.
If anything, college students are more likely to do this kind of protest stuff than are pro players.
#2. To: nolu chan (#0)
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/
Remington Research Group has just conducted a public poll,
Remington Research Group
Stopped reading at this point - fake poll published on the worst of the fake news sites....
Completely non-credible
"we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
"Listen piece of shit. Call me anti American again and your're banned. I don't like you." - aka stoned -
#3. To: nolu chan (#0)
Hell yes!
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
#4. To: Jameson (#2)
Remington Research Group...Stopped reading at this point - fake poll published on the worst of the fake news sites...
I don't find under this name or RRG on the comprehensive FiveThirtyEight Pollster Ratings list.
Maybe it is new or recently changed its name. Looking at their site, it seems they do a mix of landline and cellphone robocalls with decent sample sizes.
#5. To: nolu chan (#0)
Certainly not good news for the NFL but not all bad either. The already sliding numbers are continuing an already established trend of decline.
No doubt, some at the NFL will say that the numbers would be the same if there had been no anthem controversy at all. And they could be right.
NFL will focus on their core audience, people who do watch religiously, who buy merchandise and who buy the pricier stadium seats. Like any business, they'll follow the money. They may look for chances to raise prices on their core audience to keep their performance up.
The big problem is the inevitable declines in broadcast profits. If they can't deliver the desired viewer demographic (males 18-55) to the ad agencies week-in and week-out, that hits pretty hard.
#6. To: Pinguinite (#1)
If anything, college students are more likely to do this kind of protest stuff than are pro players.
Not if they want to stay on the team and keep enjoying a free scholarship.
Have you seen any college end zone celebrations lately featuring a player simulating being a dog peeing, or a person crapping?
Have you seen a college team circle jerk in the middle of the field where everyone takes a knee to protest? With the coaches and the university president joining in?
#7. To: Jameson (#2)
The viewer poll:
#8. To: Tooconservative (#5)
The big problem is the inevitable declines in broadcast profits.
The big threat is this in the future:
#9. To: nolu chan (#0)
This is a well organized survey. Thanks. Saw on nightly news that Reuters did a similar poll and 58% of respondents said players should stand.
Of course Reuters chose to highlight what they want:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-nfl-poll/a-majority-of-adults- disagree-with-trump-on-firing-athletes-who-kneel-during-anthem-reuters- ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1C1304
#10. To: nolu chan (#8)
The big threat is this in the future:
There is a bandwagon effect that has enshrined the NFL, made it feel completely unassailable, just as boxing once was. And it's all so true until suddenly it just isn't.
What happens when talk around the water cooler or a family table or at other gatherings is suddenly sprinkled with people who have zero interest in football? And when those numbers keep growing slowly? And when people realize they're giving a lot of their time to watch these long games and "s'prot da team" when they could be doing other things that are more fun, that others are choosing to do things for themselves or their families that are much more positive than just putting on a team jersey and drinking the afternoon away on the weekend with a six-pack? What if their phone interests them more than football?
I think the real threat is the social dimension. And young people who don't have the attention span to care about a 4-hour game and would rather play video games and do smartphone apps or social networking.
I was at a family gathering a few years ago. Two of my niece's husbands were watching the game, one of their daughters was there. These are families that are considered very closely knit. They were all watching in a very distracted way, constantly on their smartphones, checking other games, doing other apps, chatting with friends, and the daughter was playing a racing game on her iPad. They were giving the game maybe 20% of their time and just not that into it. They were watching it but it was just a background thing to the other activities they preferred. I see this a lot. People are so involved with their video consoles and smartphones. They don't talk or interact, they don't concentrate on TV shows or movies, even in restaurants they pull out phones to text and talk and check stock prices and play video games. It's all very antisocial, really pretty rude compared to how people were expected to behave socially even 20 years ago. And it seems pervasive among the under-40 age group.
This is the real threat to all the sports franchises IMO.
#11. To: nolu chan, Pinguinite, redleghunter, misterwhite, A K A Stone, Stoner, Justified (#0)
Woh.
WSJ: DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy
| DirecTV is letting at least some customers cancel subscriptions to its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games and obtain refunds if they cite players’ national anthem protests as the reason, customer service representatives said Tuesday. Sunday Ticket’s regular policy doesn’t allow refunds once the season is under way. But the representatives said they are making exceptions this season—which began in September—in response to the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem. . . . It isn’t just the political stakes that are high. Football draws the biggest TV audiences of American sports and is a vital income source for a host of major media companies. Sunday Ticket is a major customer draw for DirecTV and one of the NFL’s premier franchises, earning it $1.5 billion a year in licensing revenue. A substantial number of cancellations risks further damage as the league tries to rebound in ratings. Viewership fell last year and continues to do so this year. Network executives and league officials attributed last year’s declines in part to viewing competition from the presidential election, consumer distaste with the pace and quality of games, and the anthem protests. . . . Marc Hoffman, a longtime subscriber to Sunday Ticket, which gives sports fans the ability to watch every Sunday game, said in an interview he was able to cancel his subscription and receive a refund on Monday. The package costs around $280 per season. “I honestly didn’t think I’d get a refund,” Mr. Hoffman said. “I know their guidelines, I just wanted to make a point.” Chris Baker, who lives in Indiana, reluctantly canceled his Sunday Ticket subscription, but not precisely as a response to the protests. “I explained to them I was tired of politics in sports, and it’s not how I want to spend my Sunday, watching all that transpire,” he said he told a DirecTV representative. He said the representative “insinuated there was a high volume of calls calling into cancel.” . . . |
It is definitely starting to hit the fan. That is a huge contract for both Directv and the NFL. It is a major cog in the NFL money machine.
#12. To: Tooconservative (#11)
It is definitely starting to hit the fan. That is a huge contract for both Directv and the NFL. It is a major cog in the NFL money machine.
I just posted a Bloomberg article on this before coming here. They must have received a lot of heat from customers to give refunds. The league officials have been just a tad stone deaf to the gathering shitstorm.
#13. To: Tooconservative (#11)
Obviously Directv recognizes the situation is so dire they prefer to take a simple financial hit to avoid being dragged into the controversy.
Gotta laugh. Professional sports is really all a facade.
#14. To: All, 3-Dee, IbJensen, Deckard, Vicomte13 (#11)
A ping to some I forgot to ping in my post above about AT&T/Directv giving refunds on their $280 NFL Season Ticket package. Unprecedented to get refunds on it.
A major body blow to the NFL. AT&T is one of the few corporations big enough to make it stick too. Not just now but with the threat that they'll keep offering pro-rated refunds as the season (and the protests) drag on.
What's Goodell going to do? Sue AT&T/Directv to keep them from giving the refunds so the NFL can keep the money of subscribers that feel they've been sold a ticket to watch tycoon owners and their millionaire playas disrespect the American flag and anthem?
Rock and a hard place. Trump has won.
Maybe someone can post a thread just on this when we get more info over the next day or so.
#15. To: nolu chan (#12)
I should have waited. I just didn't want to post a WSJ/NYSlimes/WaPo article in full. Don't want AKA to get some nastygram DMCA notice.
See this? I think the Slimes has it about right.
Slimes: N.F.L. Owners’ Unity With Players Might Will Be Short-Lived
That damned Muslim who owns the Jaguars and joined them in protest in London must really be feeling the heat. He's already backing off from it. Not hard to imagine the rage in Jacksonville at those antics, protesting the flag/anthem on foreign soil, then standing for God Save The F--king Queen? They'll be lucky to avoid being tarred and feathered when they get off the plane.
#16. To: Pinguinite (#13)
Obviously Directv recognizes the situation is so dire they prefer to take a simple financial hit to avoid being dragged into the controversy.
Directv is big and so is Sunday Ticket. And the NFL certainly is an 800 lb. gorilla.
But AT&T is Godzilla.
The NFL is totally screwed.
#17. To: Tooconservative (#16) (Edited)
" The NFL is totally screwed. "
Yeah, they have shit in their mess kit.
I wonder how proud they are of Kapperdick now ?
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
#18. To: Stoner (#17)
I wonder how proud they are of Kapperdick now ?
Not so much is my guess.
I see elsewhere that there was some rising talk about staging SJW protests at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Korea. I think that door just got slammed shut too. NBC and the others want to sell ads, not piss off the viewers for these big events with political crap.
#19. To: Stoner (#17)
I wonder how proud they are of Kapperdick now ?
Not very, of course. For my part, I'd want to shake his hand for singlehandedly torpedoing the USS NFL.
Imagine how much time this will free up for millions of couch potatoes and force them to do something at least a little more meaningful.
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