The NFL is not doing the paying, but they should be “taking both knees” in worship to the Fox Sports Network for actually bribing people to sit in the seats of the stands in order to dispel the empty-seat notion that is all too apparent every time the cameras do a wide-angle pan of the stands.
Yes, you heard right. They are, in essence, paying for sets of buttocks to be put into the seats of the stadiums that are increasingly more empty with each passing week. The ticket sales may not have fallen dramatically because many of the corporations that purchase the season passes do so ahead of the season, but the fact that the fan base has precipitously fallen is obvious. The networks have actually been running with the habit of keeping the cameras at field level in order to preclude accidental glimpses of the half-empty stands.
Why does it matter if the seats are still paid for, you might ask. The perception that the NFL is unpopular is one that can hurt sponsorship. If a sponsor sees full stadium seating at a tennis match, it is more likely to give its advertising dollars to them rather than to the NFL where the fan base has fallen off because of internal strife and mismanagement. Here you have a terrible perception of the players, millionaires all, who are whining about the fact that the country is terrible and racist and pitted against them, when they’re making more money than most of their fans will ever see in a lifetime!
But here’s the kicker. Fox Sports is so picky about how they’re going to be perceived if they put the “wrong” types of fans in the seats that they’re paying for “ringers.” In other words, they’re hiring actors to play rowdy fans, otherwise, people watching the broadcast at home may get suspicious!
It’s no big secret that NFL viewership and fan turnout at live games has diminished to all-time lows as teams struggle to sell even their lower-level tickets for as little as $3 and $4 after players decided to kneel during game numerous opening national anthems but no one would have ever thought it would come to the point to where fans have to be paid to fill stadium seats.
That’s right, you heard me, in the latest barrage of NFL shenanigans, Fox Sports has put out a casting call and is looking for Rams fans to attend Sunday’s pre-game in Los Angeles. The geniuses that took a knee to spite America have now created their own demise.
Here is the original ad posted at ProjectCasting.com:
Casting directors are now looking for NFL fans for Sunday, December 10th in Los Angeles, California.
Producers are seeking the following:
- We’re looking for LA’s biggest NFL fans to be a part of #NFLSunday’s Los Angeles Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles Pre Game Show!
Calling all LA Rams fans!To audition for a role in the upcoming NFL Sunday pre-game show, check out the casting call breakdown below.
NFL Sunday Casting Call
We’re looking for LA’s biggest NFL fans to be a part of #NFLSunday’s Los Angeles Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles Pre Game Show!
Come out, bring your spirit, your best NFL gear & join us for NFL on FOXTHIS Sunday!
Tag your friends + Request tix —> http://bit.ly/2km8KnY
Apparently, after the ad was posted it was met with some backlash, so an update was posted:
Update (Sunday, December 10th, 2017): We have received the following statement regarding Fox NFL Sunday’s pre-game show by Eddie Motul, Vice President of Communications at FOX Sports and FS1, “We hired 1iota to help secure a live audience for tomorrow’s FOX NFL SUNDAY pregame show from the LA Coliseum. Not sure where the information in your post is coming from but it doesn’t represent our intentions accurately and because of it there is a notion among several sports blogs that we are paying actors to be Rams fans and that is absolutely not the case. Our set is located inside the stadium. Our show airs at 9 am PT when the stadium is technically not open to the public so therefore we needed to “bring in” a live audience.”
Fox NFL SUNDAY is not casting, they are not looking for actors, and no one is being paid.
And just when you thought news about the NFL couldn’t get any stranger! Very strange indeed!
Between this type of publicity and the fact that Microsoft News has at least 7-10 heartwarming and thrilling stories about the NFL every single day, is it any wonder that the audiences continue to diminish in record numbers?
Source: Intellihub, Projectcasting.com
Image: Youtube
Still couldn’t pay me to go
Couldn’t pay me for that either.
Teehee
Problely most in attendance at the super bowl was paid crisis actors
Hey just like the NFL
More loss of owner money by the NFL. Eventually it will effect player contracts. Hoping to see a patriotic and arrest free proposal of a new league. GO!
I wonder…maybe,…all had stay home. ..and still watch it on T.V.. ..so, did it make a dent…ir even a point..