2018 NFL Season Thread

[ilovepaydays]

Well, this is an improvement. Sort of. Patriots 10, Rams 3.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Well, I guess the Patriots’ got this. This seems like such a downer, though.

 

[caseyedwards]

Who are the Patriots? Why the Patriots?

 

[BaileyCatts]

This dude giving the speech awarding the trophy sounds like Drunk Uncle.

 

[jenny12]

Dull game overall but congrats to the Patriots I guess. At least they got here in a less controversial way than the Rams did.

 

[libecha]

This dude giving the speech awarding the trophy sounds like Drunk Uncle.

Bob Kraft, the Pats owner, is routinely blitzed during the postgame festivities. It's an expectation at this point.

 

[Vash01]

I didnt watch the superbowl today. I don't remember the last time I missed it. I am an avid fan of football but I decided to boycott this because I have lost faith in the NFL as a fair organization.

I read a few comments on the game on Facebook, e.g. "Most boring superbowl ever". So I am glad that I didn't waste my time watching it.

One comment was particularly funny. "Both teams are playing as if they are afraid that the winner would have to go to the White House"

 

[Spiralgraph]

Not the Patriots' best victory ever, but a win is a win is a win. With A Red Sox victory in the World Series, the Patriots' sixth super bowl win and of course, the Shibs' two Olympic medals, sportswise things have been pretty good for me.

 

[VGThuy]

Who are the Patriots? Why the Patriots?

What's the question?

 

[VGThuy]

Lowest rated Super Bowl in the past 10 years. Some say the boycott from the city of New Orleans played a part.

https://sports.yahoo.com/super-bowl-liii-draws-lowest-overnight-ratings-decade-155404457.html

As you’d expect, Boston and Los Angeles fans did watch. In the Boston market, the Patriots’ win drew a 57.4, the highest number for the game in the market since 2015. In Los Angeles, it drew a 44.6. Not surprisingly, it was the highest-rated Super Bowl in that market since 1996.

But one city that didn’t care to watch was New Orleans. The game drew just a 26.1 rating, the lowest-ever Super Bowl rating in the city and the lowest of any market nationally.

Saints fans were still stung by the way the NFC championship game ended two weeks earlier, when officials didn’t call a clear helmet-to-helmet violation (or the pass interference that occurred on the same play) and New Orleans went on to lose to the Rams in overtime.

Instead, fans organized efforts to avoid the game entirely, with parades and protests and just a general good time. Even the city’s newspaper, the Times-Picayune, ignored the Super Bowl.

A harshly worded article below:

https://www.theroot.com/maga-super-bowl-suffers-lowest-ratings-in-a-decade-and-1832342491

One of the reasons the game drew such a measly rating is because of the low amount of viewers in New Orleans, whose hometown Saints was cheated out of a chance to play in the championship game after a referee was struck by temporary selective blindness in the fourth quarter of the NFC title game.

The city, which is 60 percent black, drew a paltry 26 rating, less than half the number of New Orleanians who watched the game last year. Many black viewers boycotted the broadcast in support of blackballed NFL player Colin Kaepernick while others merely voiced their support for Colin Kaepernick but could understandably not be expected to sacrifice watching a glorified rugby match.

https://twitter.com/DMoutonWWL/status/1092561132374683649

Some stats from New Orleans:

Super Bowl TV Ratings IN NEW ORLEANS
SB 52 / 2018 -- 52.4
SB 53 / 2019 -- 26.1

 

[Vash01]

Lowest rated Super Bowl in the past 10 years. Some say the boycott from the city of New Orleans played a part.

https://sports.yahoo.com/super-bowl-liii-draws-lowest-overnight-ratings-decade-155404457.html



A harshly worded article below:

https://www.theroot.com/maga-super-bowl-suffers-lowest-ratings-in-a-decade-and-1832342491



https://twitter.com/DMoutonWWL/status/1092561132374683649

Some stats from New Orleans:

Interesting article. I was not thinking in racial terms, but size of the markets. The rich people were given the chance to play in the superbowl. The small cities (New Orleans in particular) were denied. I am sure the rating in Arizona was low too because many of us were doing something other than watching the superbowl. It was a protest against the NFL.

 

[el henry]

I am all for bashing anything and everything MAGA related, but as clever as that article from The Root was, I’m afraid I can’t blame that for this Super Bowl’s low ratings. My low rent analysis:

Only New Englanders love the Patriots.
Los Angeles doesn’t care about the Rams.
The game sucked.
How large a market is Nola anyway?

2018 SuperBowl’s halftime show was no prize (JT, anyone?) but the game was great and every single person in the Philadelphia metro area was watching. I can’t imagine it wasn’t among the highest rated SBs...

Onto next year

 

[Teamgracie]

Well this Pats fan doesn’t care how many people watched just happy they won! Go Pats