It felt like a little bit of history was being made on Monday Night Football as the Tennessee Titans finally snapped their streak of 11 consecutive losses to the Indianapolis Colts. However, as social media sparred with ESPN not showing the playing of the national anthem, another type of history was also being made: Last night’s primetime broadcast of the Titans’ 36-22 victory stumbled to a season low with a 6.1 in metered market results.
In a season stained by overall ratings declines and political controversy, that NFL Week 6 rating is down 13% from the early numbers of the much tighter October 9 matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. That MNF season low went on to deliver a 3.7 rating among adults 18-49 and a total viewership of 10.3 million. It’s worth noting that the peek of last week’s MNF came at halftime on the Disney-owned cabler when the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer debuted.
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Nothing more to be said.
I am reading books again.
Good.. I was too busy watching Scorpion, Supergirl and Gifted to even give a moments notice to MNF..
Keep up the good fight Rishard! way to go! i think your disrepecting the flag and our country is working! i have seen and heard of so many nfl players going out to minority communities and teaching kids to pull up their pants, respect others, respect the police, respect the laws of our great country. The main thing i am proud of ya’ll for is teaching them how to respect themselves so they don’t become a statistic.
Bad game choice makes it easy to boycott MNF. Both teams’ starting QBs are injured. No star players. Thursday Night Football is even worse, it’s like the NFL deliberately puts the worst teams to play on Thursday. The NFL needs to realize they can no longer put a game between mediocre teams on national TV and expect high ratings. Kneeling aside, the NFL needs to go to a revolving schedule where they can put their best product in the national spotlight. Otherwise they suffer the same ratings doldrums as the post-Jordan NBA.
So, you don’t care if they all kneel on the field and refuse to stand for the national anthem. You just want a better game. I think it’s a little too late for you to fix your anti-American sport. They’re done. They just don’t know it yet.
So you think the game choice is why people are boycotting them??
Thankless thugs from the NFL. Go move to Cuba with your buddy Colin communist Kaepernick!
Thankfully, ‘Dancing With The Stars’ is on Monday nights. It’s more entertaining than watching buttheads butt heads!
On “Dancing with the Stars”, you are actually watching butts!
Don’t forget titis!
Will NEVER watch an NFL game again !!
Didn’t watch the game because I don’t support anti-American entertainers, and that is all football players are in reality – something they know nothing about.