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"Kaepernick Effect" causing low NFL ratings

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 4 15:21:07 2016, in response to Bye Bye Kaepernick, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Sep 20 18:01:15 2016.

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Colin Kaepernick bringing dialogue and low NFL ratings

Steve Rivera
Oct 4, 2016, 2:46 PM

The latest of the Colin Kaepernick effect was felt across the football landscape this weekend. Beginning with high school football games, to members of the East Carolina Marching Band refusing to play the National Anthem, the “Kaepernick effect” is far reaching and exposing layers to our national season of discontent and discourse.

It’s also having an effect on perennial ratings darling, the National Football League.

#hashtagBoycottNFL is working, and media watchers, ad people, and the folks at Forbes.com are beginning to talk about a trend likely not to change anytime soon.

Regardless of your personal views or your politics, the conventional wisdom that the “too big to fail” NFL may find itself at a crossroads it can’t ignore or placate much longer.

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