The last couple of years haven’t been the best for the NFL, with attendance and TV ratings dipping, in part due to some players protesting during the anthem.
Ratings for Monday Night Football fell to a near season low this week, as the New York Giants took on the Atlanta Falcons at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Having Booger McFarland perched atop a large viewing crane, was likely hailed as a great innovation and fun idea at ESPN headquarters. However, for the fans paying top dollar for lower bowl seats at NFL stadiums, the crane is producing an entirely different reaction.
The ratings for Week Two’s Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks, crashed to the lowest numbers ever recorded for a Week Two Monday night game.
Jason Witten will retire from the NFL and join ESPN’s Monday Night Football crew, according to ESPN.
Jon Gruden made major headlines, when he opted to leave the Monday Night Football broadcast booth and take over the head coaching job for the Oakland Raiders.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) The Oakland Raiders are set to bring Jon Gruden back for a second stint as coach.
Fewer people watched Monday Night Football in 2017, than at any time in recorded history.
The Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles met on the gridiron last night, but turned in the lowest Week 16 ratings for Monday Night Football since 2012.
The NFL is still getting tackled in the ratings and this week is no exception, as Monday Night Football seems to have once again taken a knee with numbers approaching a season low.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was not happy with one of his wide receivers Monday night. During ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” broadcast of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosting the Falcons, Ryan could be heard barking at wide receiver Mohamed Sanu to
The New England Patriots suffered the end of their eight-game winning streak in a game that saw a small rise in the ratings over last week. But the NFL is still not winning because even with better numbers this week, Monday Night Football was still a loss compared to last year’s Week 14 game.
Just when some industry observers were beginning to think that it couldn’t get any worse for the NFL’s primetime ratings this year, it gets much, much worse.
The one NFL broadcast partner that has shown consistent, albeit slow growth this year, has been Monday Night Football. However, after the Week 10 edition of Miami-Carolina, even that’s not happening anymore.
If you wanted good news for the NFL from its Monday Night Football ratings, you got it. If you wanted bad news for the NFL from its Monday Night Football ratings, you also got it.
No matter who dresses up as what at the NFL offices in New York, it’s not likely that their Halloween costume will scare Commissioner Roger Goodell more the ratings for Monday Night Football.
There are a variety of ways, in which businesses judge whether they’re having a successful business day. However, if you’re losing over 15,000 customers a day, that is generally frowned upon.
Despite the NFL’s struggles on Sunday’s and Thursday’s, the Week 7 edition of Monday Night Football between the Eagles and the Redskins, saw a ratings bump.
Don Meredith helped make Monday Night Football famous, by singing ‘Turn out the lights, the party’s over” at the end of games. It might be time to sing that same song again for Monday Night Football, though, for an entirely different reason.
The NFL had a night with no major political developments, no disasters of a natural or unnatural nature, and the halftime playing of a trailer for the next Star Wars movie, and yet, their ratings tanked again.
There’s one thing you don’t have to worry about when asking Mike Ditka a question, and that’s not getting a straight answer. The Bears legend and Hall of Famer railed against anthem protesters in a recent interview, saying “there has been no oppression in this country in the last 100 years that I’m aware of.”
The NFL chose to embrace the anthem protests, of players who sought to use the league’s national stage to disgrace the flag and the country. The NFL also chose to take the players side against the leader of the free world, when he rightfully called those players out. As a result, it appears the league may have done irreparable harm to its brand.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Matthew Stafford threw for two touchdowns, rookie Jamal Agnew broke the game open with an 88-yard punt return in the fourth quarter and the Detroit Lions beat the New York Giants 24-10 on Monday night.
Outraged customers at a Riverside County Buffalo Wild Wings say an employee turned down the National Anthem as Monday’s NFL game began.
Monday Night Football is an American institution, so what better way to start an NFL season than with a double-header on the season’s first Monday night?
This is probably not what Browns Coach Hue Jackson had in mind, when he said that he hoped anthem protests would not happen on his sideline.
After firing him six years ago because his politics leaned too far to the right, cable sports network ESPN is rehiring Hank Williams, Jr., as its face for Monday Night Football.
It’s not often that we’ve had the chance to associate the word “biblical” with ESPN. However, according to the Sporting News, biblical best describes the current freak-out level amongst talent at the sports cable giant.
One struggles to put into proper perspective the sheer collapse that has befallen the “worldwide leader.” Yet, while the final numbers from 2016 start to come in, that perspective has started to take shape.
On Monday night, the New York Jets hosted the Indianapolis Colts in a game that only close family relatives, paid employees, and masochists could have enjoyed.
When American teams play in other countries the fans in those foreign lands customarily expose us to new and interesting expressions of celebration, support, song, and sometimes ridicule that involve harmless merriments such as vuvuzelas or chants of “Ole’.”
When in a new and exciting place, vacationers put on their finery to venture out from the protective lair of their hotel, sample the local cuisine, and otherwise fully embrace the experience of interfacing with a different culture. The NFL told the Houston Texans to do just the opposite in advance of their Mexico City trip to play the Oakland Raiders on Monday Night Football.
If you thought the Monday Night Football matchup between the Cardinals and Jets would stop the torrential downpour of bad ratings news for the NFL…well…no one probably thought that.
ESPN’s Sean McDonough, the lead play-by-play man for Monday Night Football, minces no words whatsoever when it comes to why he believes the league’s primetime ratings are in freefall.
The NFL sees its ratings going down faster than Colin Kaepernick after hearing “O say can you see.”
Disney debuted the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, during halftime on ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
