NFL hemorrhaging viewers

Heckuva job, Goodell!

This past weekend the NFL had three very competitive games among its four divisional round playoff contests. 

Unfortunately for the league, ratings continued to plummet. 

In fact, ratings are plummeting so much that virtually no major media outlets are even talking about ratings at all. It’s almost like the league and its television partners have put out the code red not to acknowledge the collapse in viewership so far in 2018.

How bad is it?  This bad:

Yep, every single game was down, no matter how good the games were. And, remember, three of these games were highly competitive in the divisional round this year. Whereas last year only two of the games were competitive. Hell, three of the four windows even feature one of the same teams from last year. And yes, I know, the Cowboys and the Packers played last year and those are the two biggest fan base draws in the NFL, but even if you pull that game out the numbers for the other three games also declined double digits. (The three other games were down 15.3%, 10.4% and 5.6%) 

Adding all these numbers up 120.8 million viewers watched the NFL divisional round playoffs in 2018 vs. 144.1 million who watched in 2017, a decline of 23.3 million total viewers.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.  Oh, and apropos of nothing:

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane allegedly told police during his DUI arrest Sunday he was “more high than anything.” 

Lane, 27, was booked into the King County Jail early Sunday morning but released less than four hours later after paying a $1,000 bail.

"Dude, I wasn't drunk, I was just high as a kite!"  Yeah.  Let me go back to my post from yesterday.  Lower the boom on this fuckstick.  Driving high is just as bad as driving drunk.  What a fucking loser.