It’s that time of the year again. The NFL is back and continuing it’s two year trend of losing viewers. Last night’s game between Atlanta and the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles saw it’s lowest opening day ratings since Obama was president in 2009.
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With a 13.4/5 in the metered markets, the post-midnight ending game is down 8% from last year’s kickoff of September 7, 2017. In one of the lowest season openers ratingswise and facing portions of a cable news-covered rally by a very NFL critical President Donald Trump, last night’s game is not only down from last year, but 2016, 2015 and 2014 – all of which saw successive declines.
To add more injury to that, the 2017 8:42 PM ET-starting season opener between the victorious Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots ended up with a weak 7.7/29 rating among adults 18-49 and 21.8 million viewers. That was a double digit decline from 2016 and the worst total audience an opening game had since 2009.
This weekend, when other junk NFL teams, attdeance and viewership should tank even more. Should be funny to watch all the social media reactions.