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RUSH: You know what this weekend is, folks? It is Super Bowl weekend. And something occurred to me today. I was in the process of — well, I was working. I was assembling the prep for today\u2019s show<\/a> and I ran across a couple stories on the NFL and Super Bowl. And I realized it was the first I had thought of it all week. I haven\u2019t turned on ESPN. I have an NFL website that I read periodically, search and scan. It\u2019s not immersive. I haven\u2019t checked it out much this week.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And it\u2019s odd. This is odd. It\u2019s unfamiliar for me. Normally the Super Bowl, I\u2019m wanting to spend two or three hours of the show on it. Back when the Hutch was alive, we\u2019d spend a lot of time talking to him, Ken Hutcherson<\/a>, who played for the Cowboys and Seahawks. But man, I haven\u2019t seen a thing. I haven\u2019t seen a single news report out of Minneapolis this week, where the game is. I did see where the temperatures this weekend, 7 degrees for the high, minus 3 for lows, which is gonna make getting to and from the game a little inconvenient.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s really, really, really strange. And in addition to not being on my mind, it wasn\u2019t even enough on my mind to be sad about the fact that it wasn\u2019t on my mind, if that makes any sense. So here are the two stories that I found. And they may be related.<\/p>\n

The first one here is from Yahoo Finance news. “Sixteen Percent of NFL Fans Say They Will Not Be Watching the Super Bowl<\/a> — Super Bowl 52 is just a few days away, and after NFL regular season TV ratings fell by nearly 10% this season on average, one of the biggest questions pundits and sports media have is: Will the Super Bowl ratings be good? If the results of a new survey from Seton Hall University are to be believed, the answer might be no. Seton Hall surveyed 706 Americans across the country, via landlines and cell phones.” Not a big sample.<\/p>\n

The first question they asked people is if they\u2019re gonna watch. The upshot is 16% of NFL fans said they\u2019re not gonna be watching this one. The next story is what we touched on earlier this week. This is an addendum to it. The NFL\u2019s losing its core audience, according to an NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Adults who report following the NFL closely has dropped 9% since 2014. Just 51% of men aged 18 to 49 say they follow the NFL closely. Four years ago that was 75%.” Seventy-five percent to 51%. And I\u2019m in that, I\u2019m in that group. Well, I\u2019m not because I\u2019m over 49, but I\u2019m in it attitudinally. This proves my point. Once you hit 50 the pollsters and the demographers don\u2019t care about you \u2019cause they figure there\u2019s no changing your mind.<\/p>\n

\"\"One other NFL story. “Eagles Battling Flu Bug in Minneapolis<\/a>.” You know what this story tells me? The Eagles fans think they\u2019re gonna lose and so this is the first excuse that has found its way into the mainstream. “Well, hell, yes, they\u2019re losing, half the team has the flu. Have you ever tried to play football at the professional level when you got the flu? Most people would be in bed.”<\/p>\n

So the first phase of explaining why the Eagles get blown out has shown up. Where did this run? This ran in 24\/7 Sports. “The Philadelphia Eagles biggest distraction during Super Bowl week hasn\u2019t been all the media availability and travel time to practice, but an flu bug that carried over from Philadelphia.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not even blaming Minnesota for this. They\u2019re blaming Philadelphia for it. Ha! The Eagles are blaming their own town. He-he-he. You know, I used to have a giant Super Bowl party. We\u2019d bring out the Allen Brothers hot dogs and all that stuff, 50 or 60 people over, and I don\u2019t even know of a Super Bowl party this year. If anybody that I know is having one, I haven\u2019t heard about it.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I\u2019ll watch it. I\u2019m gonna watch it. I\u2019m just saying that I\u2019m not hyped. Maybe it\u2019s \u2019cause it\u2019s — I don\u2019t know — neither of these two teams are my absolute favorites. I do have a favorite of these two, but I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s just weird. It\u2019s just weird. And I never thought I would be losing interest. I\u2019m not angry, like I\u2019ve always said, I\u2019m just sad.<\/p>\n

There are certain things that you lose interest in all throughout your life as you get older. It just happens. But this is one of these things I thought would be immune from that.<\/p>\n

\"\"BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I will predict that Janet Jackson will show up in the Super Bowl halftime and will not experience a wardrobe malfunction. As far as the game… Who\u2019s playing again? Oh, yeah. I have no idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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