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<\/p>\nRUSH: Monday Night Football ratings have crashed by over 20%. And I gotta tell you, the early Monday night game at 7 p.m., the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants, I mean, those are two teams that traditionally draw huge numbers. I mean, the Giants is New York, the nation\u2019s largest media market. The Pittsburgh Steelers may as well be in the top 10 media market. They\u2019re both traveling teams. Their fans follow the Steelers everywhere.<\/p>\n
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Their fans are on prime time television the maximum number of times the league permits every year because they draw huge audiences, and their game that was down 20% plus the late game was the Tennessee Titans and the Denver Broncos. And that game started about 10:15. In fact, do you know every — Brian, you\u2019ll love this — every NFL game starting with the Chiefs and the Texans, every NFL game except one had audiences lower than the year before.<\/p>\n
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Which game do you think… (interruption) That\u2019s exactly right, Mr. Snerdley. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints were the only game that had ratings above history. And that\u2019s \u2019cause of Brady. But you know something, folks? I think we\u2019re making — well, we\u2019re not making a mistake, but comparing NFL ratings, say, from this season, the opening weekend of this season, to last season, that\u2019s not really what we need to be doing.<\/p>\n
When did Colin Kaepernick first take the knee? I don\u2019t expect any of you know off the top of your heads, but I do because it\u2019s my job. I\u2019m blessed with a great memory. It was a preseason game in August in 2016. And he didn\u2019t take a knee in that game. He sat on the bench during the anthem. He had been sitting on the bench during the anthem for weeks. Nobody noticed it until a preseason game, and then after it was noticed the next week is when he took a knee during the anthem.<\/p>\n
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So what we need to do, we need to go back and look at NFL ratings after Kaepernick took the knee, and then that started growing and a lot of players started protesting during the 2016 season. That\u2019s what we need to be comparing ratings to. And I\u2019ll bet you if we did that, you\u2019d find the NFL has been losing a lot of television audience in the last four years. If they\u2019re down year over year, then they gotta be down from 2016 to the present because it only intensified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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