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The pro bowl had better ratings than the NBA playoffs
http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/the-nf...n-the-ratings/We all know the NFL is the king of American sports. But, damn, the 2014 NFL Draft, competing against two mediocre NBA Playoff games and two pretty damn good NHL playoff games, just ABSOLUTELY SHATTERED THEM in the TV ratings.
Must be the infamous "San Antonio Effect" imo
The pro bowl had better ratings than the NBA playoffs
and yet nobody outside that miserable fat country gives a about the gimp re ed version of rugby
No one wants to watch a fixed league. Stern and Silver fail to understand that the majority of fans realize that the officiating is biased. It obviously doesnt help that its predominantly a black sport, but it has a lot to do with the fixed part to. This is why the average fan hates Lebron and feels the league is fixed tbh.
How did 2 small markets SA/POR pull a bigger number than 2 of the biggest markets MIA/NJN? Something fishy going on there...
That's pretty horrible, 1st round of the playoffs was excellent though. An increase of 19% from last year.
Miami was competing against the top 15-20 picks in the draft, Spurs were competing against the filler, yet only garnered 0.1 higher rankings.
Sad.
One draft down, one to go...
Not surprising. I watched the draft over the games as well. it was just a game 2 semifinal game, nothing to get excited about tbh.
This.
idk what they're expecting, are we supposed to watch every basketball playoff game on TV? We have lives too IMHO. I haven't watched a single game since Dallas got eliminated. Not that I don't care but I don't have time to just sit and watch basketball for 5 hours a day
It bothers me to hear people like Steve Javie say "because he already has 5 fouls, you're going to probably give him the 50/50 calls". Imagine that "he" being someone like Baynes. He won't get the benefit of the doubt. Steve also said that technical fouls are often delayed if the player already has one and it means he will be booted from the game. He said refs will tighten up on the calls if the game becomes a shoving match. That's basically saying there is no real standard that they use, that it's totally up to the official whether or not to even consider anything a foul. So yeah, it's being admittedly controlled by the refs, and the refs are paid by the NBA who stands to profit most by certain outcomes.
However, I don't think that's why people don't watch. I think there are too many games in a season. Baseball is America's sport but there are so many games that you can miss half of them and still have a full NBA schedule number of games. The NBA has so many games that they have to force teams to play back to back nights just to get in all the games. With the toll the game takes on the players, having them in back to back games increases the chance of injury, and if you look across the league, you have so many stars injured at any give time that you're never guaranteed to see the matchups you'd take time out to watch. If every season was just the playoffs, they'd have a higher viewing audience. You wouldn't need to spend every other day watching a game.
Yeah, no one really wants to watch San Antonio play, just like no one wants to see Phil Mickelson put for birdie. Tiger is exciting, Lebron is exciting, Kobe is exciting (even if he's losing). Even OKC is borderline unwatchable. Those who will watch would have watched even if it wasn't SA or even if it wasn't Phil Mickelson. However I don't watch games because of the ratings. I watch because I like basketball. I'm not a football fan, but I will watch on occasion.
Who in cares. For a fan base that makes fun of other teams for their regular season championships, you little es sure are quick to pull out the ratings card. No bigger markets have more bandwagon fans.
I'd say the bigger reason is the Rockets/Lin being knocked out and all of China not watching anymore.
Yet the Spurs/Heat finals was the highest since the Jazz/Bulls finals.
And the Spurs/Blazer higher than the Heat/Nets ratings. Football is the most popular sport in America. Has nothing to do with the Spurs playing or not.
Manziel was still waiting to get drafted during the Spurs/Blazers game, and by the time he got drafted, the spurs were up by 20+
Agree with DMC, every standard is rather fluid than rigid, just like norms which are mostly descriptive rather than prescriptive. The norms are determined by the social cir stances but may still be considerably influenced by subjective desires, norms or standards are the compound of subjective and objective elements imho.
The draft is far more enjoyable than any average game. It involves every team in the league and is the sport fan's equivalent of opening presents on Christmas morning.
I'm a Spurs fan and I put the draft on higher priority because the Spurs have mentally destroyed the Blazers beyond repair.
Jadeveon Clwoney + Johnny Football + Oakland/Dallas Folly + Michael Sam = Easy ratings...
Why do people on this board care about ratings?
Because we are all part of the Iluminati, duh.
They call it football, but is actually played mostly with the hands. fat turds.and yet nobody outside that miserable fat country gives a about the gimp re ed version of rugby
Also, anyone with a brain realizes that American football is called football because the sport was originally derived from rugby football.... it's the same thing with Canadian football and Australian football
I don't give a about soccer or football. Soccer fans are lifeless thugs who spend most of the time hating each other just because they are supporters of different teams. But it doesn't change the fact the oval ball rabbit and dog sport is played with the hands. And has fat turds with an average 70 IQ as fans.
Also, anyone with a brain realizes that American football is called football because the sport was originally derived from rugby football.... it's the same thing with Canadian football and Australian football
Not sure why people are surprised, tbh..
The NFL has been at the top for a while now, and it's going to continue to dominate..football is a more exciting sport, there is more parity, it's marketed around teams over players(with certain exceptions), and it's much easier for a ty NFL team to turn it's fortunes around than it is for a ty NBA franchise, tbh..
Officiating has no weight here, as the NFL officiating is even worse than NBA officiating IMO..
Agree with everything that HH said except for the part about football being more exciting than basketball tbh...
The product/sport of football itself is more boring to watch but the fact that every NFL game matters unlike 90% of NBA games makes up for it I guess.
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