December 12,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Week 14 and the NFL ratings implosion continues .Sunday Night Football represented one of the NFL’s last chance to right the ship ,but no dice, didn’t happen.
The NFL Sunday night match with two very viable playoff teams ended up a ratings disaster . The Week 14 battle betweem the Ravens and the Steelers ended up a 39-38 victory for Pittsburgh. Ratings were down 30% in the from last year’s Week 14 match-up between the Giants and Cowboys.
Overall, the game earned an 11.6 rating which was still good enough to win the sleepy Sunday night for NBC. However, according to The Hollywood Reporter “…even with such a tight match-up, this week’s marquee primetime game was down 11 percent” from last week.
Add these awful numbers in with the rest of the awful primetime numbers for the NFL this year. Plus the league’s well-advertised attendance problem, and it’s easy to understand why networks like Fox sports are unable to afford to send people to the Super Bowl this year, due to revenue losses from the NFL.
Long time watchers of the sport lament the “end of the NFL” and perhaps the end of network television as we know it .
Not everyone is suffering however the Commissioner Roger Goodell continue to fail upwards signing a new contract last week, worth up to $200 million.
