Offseason NFL has the world craving for synchronized swimming right about now. They have one night to actually strut their stuff during the offseason. These really are the doldrums as far as sports goes

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And the dropoff over these next two nights will be precipitous. Book It!

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Plausibly.

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It was actually 15.6 million.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Over 4 channels with nothing else going and it still won't top the NBA Finals. From 18. Or the 18 Western Conf Finals.

This is the only thing Football has going over a,6 month stretch. People are thirsting for the NBA right now.

No matter what you say Off Season NFL has been a flop. It's a perfect storm for them and people are disinterested as hell. Savor the memories of the draft as they will have nothing else that will hold anyone's attention for the next 4 months.

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That's the worst argument anyone has ever made in the history of arguments.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Last year's Finals avg 21 mil a contest.

This year's draft will avg about 8. For the signature event of the offseason with 4 channels and no comp.

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You might want to look up the word "anomaly". That is all that the first night of the draft happens to be.NBA Finals Avg 21 mil per contest last season.

This will avg about 8 mil over 3 nights. With no other competition.

People are dying without the NBA right now. Off season NFL isn't holding anyone's attention right now. As stated it's a perfect storm for them. BORING.

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More people watched the finals of a sport compared to a zoom meeting between gms is a really bad point.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Been around this game for a long time. Never knew people watched the draft to see the people in the audience. They really are watching for the obligatory hug, hat placement and handshake. Who knew?

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"No no, the sport which has its highest-rated single game of the season eclipsed or nearly eclipsed by the ratings of a single night of the NFL's offseason event is actually the MORE popular league" is just the tops.

This argument always tickles me.

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It's not an argument. It's basically just long time guy hitting himself over the head with a hammer for our amusement.

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Don't flatter yourself Fraternization This should end your participation in this seeing as you agree with me about it. See ya!

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Hey Brick bet Fraternization didn't tell you he has been in agreement with me the entire time?


Bet he thought that we were napping

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Man... this thread

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

8.2 million viewers on day 2 of the draft.

According to information from the NFL, the average audience during the Round 1 of the draft was 15.6 million, which was a 37 percent increase over the average audience from last year's (11.4 million). More impressively, the viewership number was a 26 percent increase over the 2014 NFL Draft -- aka, the Johnny Manziel draft -- which produced an average audience of 12.4 million viewers that stood as the record until Thursday night. The average viewership was tallied based on the number of combined viewers from ABC, ESPN and NFL Network, which all televised the draft.

The viewership number for the draft peaked between 8:45 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET, when the Dolphins were on the clock. A total of 19.6 million people were watching when Miami decided to use their first first-round pick on Tua Tagovailoa.

The draft, which was held virtually for the first time in league history, was hosted by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who announced every pick from his basement while getting booed by fans on the internet.

The draft was especially popular in the state of Ohio this year as the top three cities from a viewership standpoint were all in the Buckeye State. Although the Bengals had the top pick, which they used on Joe Burrow, Cincinnati actually didn't rank as the city with the highest viewership numbers. Instead, that honor went to Columbus.

Here's a look at the top-five cities that had the highest ratings during the first round of the draft.

1. Columbus, Ohio (16.7)
2. Cleveland (15.9)
3. Cincinnati (15.6)
4. Philadelphia (15.1)
5. Kansas City (14.3)

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JLN is trying extra hard to make himself relevant to this discussion.

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Yesterday will do about 3-4 mil.

3 day avg will be about 8-9 million.

NBA Conference finals avg about 17-18 Million viewers. Don't believe that all of the games are on Network TV either.

Both the Conference Finals and NBA Finals avg significantly more viewers than the draft avg

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I'm not sure this is helping your case.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Numbers don't lie.

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This is just a flat out lie.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/nba-co ... n-western/



So by your own admission, the NFL Draft On Zoom will about equal the average viewing audience of a recent NBA Conference Finals.

Yeah... but is comparing a three day average of a draft really apples to apples to a conference final?
How do nba conference finals compare to NFL conference championship games? That night be a better comparison.
Or perhaps the NBA draft average to the NFL draft average.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Here are last year's draft avg NFL
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live- ... gs-1205612



Numbers off On the Conference Finals. Still Higher than the draft avg of the NFL That even with all of the games being televised on cable


Game 7 peak was 17-18 mi.

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Numbers don't lie.

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So thirsty that the most watched documentary in the history of ESPN still can't even garner ratings higher than an NFL webcast.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/media/th ... index.html

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