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Winning - Ratings are up, everyone is talking about the NFL and paying attention to it like a good movie.
Losing - Nobody's talking about the NFL, viewership is way down, and few people are paying attention during the off season.
People easily forget things if they're not constantly reminded of them, hence the commercials you see and hear on repeat over and over again to the point where you can recite the advertisement.
There's no such thing as bad publicity in the NFL. It's free advertising. It's reality TV, which is a perfect match made in media driven heaven.
Advertising fees on the NFL Network, up or down?
Up. It's all about the money and the show.
Is the product tainted? It's probably been tainted since day 1 in some way shape or form, but that's life.
From the first spitball ever thrown in baseball to the Dallas Cowboys using horse ointment, teams, players and coaches have always and will always try to do whatever they can do to win. People will cheat and bend the rules as much as they can to benefit themselves forever. Politicians and lawyers make a living out of it.
The NFL is far from perfect. Nobody's perfect. Have you ever lied, cheated, or stolen?
The human element is why reality TV became so popular and sitcoms took a back seat.
I think the NFL is trying to incorporate that element in to its product more than ever before because controversy and drama sells.
The NFL didn't like all of that bad publicity about Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, right? So wrong. They ate it up like candy and used it to create more, "public awareness," quicker than a pink ribbon in the month of October.
I wonder how much the breast cancer industry pays the NFL to advertise their pink ribbons?
The NFL has been much more open about revealing the human side of players (and fans) that love the game of football. They used to hide a lot of things that never became public back in the days before the Internet. Now, they cash in on the controversy and struggles of every day life.
Is that a bad thing to do, or is it a smart thing to do in today's 8 second attention span society if you ran a business driven by the media?
"Real life," drama creates a profit incentive for the NFL. Patriotism? Cash in on the DoD to advertise their, "product."
We're still buying it and that's what counts the most no matter how real of fake the NFL is.
Losing - Nobody's talking about the NFL, viewership is way down, and few people are paying attention during the off season.
People easily forget things if they're not constantly reminded of them, hence the commercials you see and hear on repeat over and over again to the point where you can recite the advertisement.
There's no such thing as bad publicity in the NFL. It's free advertising. It's reality TV, which is a perfect match made in media driven heaven.
Advertising fees on the NFL Network, up or down?
Up. It's all about the money and the show.
Is the product tainted? It's probably been tainted since day 1 in some way shape or form, but that's life.
From the first spitball ever thrown in baseball to the Dallas Cowboys using horse ointment, teams, players and coaches have always and will always try to do whatever they can do to win. People will cheat and bend the rules as much as they can to benefit themselves forever. Politicians and lawyers make a living out of it.
The NFL is far from perfect. Nobody's perfect. Have you ever lied, cheated, or stolen?
The human element is why reality TV became so popular and sitcoms took a back seat.
I think the NFL is trying to incorporate that element in to its product more than ever before because controversy and drama sells.
The NFL didn't like all of that bad publicity about Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, right? So wrong. They ate it up like candy and used it to create more, "public awareness," quicker than a pink ribbon in the month of October.
I wonder how much the breast cancer industry pays the NFL to advertise their pink ribbons?
The NFL has been much more open about revealing the human side of players (and fans) that love the game of football. They used to hide a lot of things that never became public back in the days before the Internet. Now, they cash in on the controversy and struggles of every day life.
Is that a bad thing to do, or is it a smart thing to do in today's 8 second attention span society if you ran a business driven by the media?
"Real life," drama creates a profit incentive for the NFL. Patriotism? Cash in on the DoD to advertise their, "product."
We're still buying it and that's what counts the most no matter how real of fake the NFL is.
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