Popeyejones
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RolandDeschain":32roqqzn said:People say a lot of things. What they actually do is oftentimes different.chris98251":32roqqzn said:All you have to do is look at the Super Bowl thread, how many said they were not going to watch.
Yep.
Great example of that was how two years ago ratings were way down (and going farther down each week) through week 8 of the season, but then shot back up in week 9 and it's like the first 8 weeks of the season never happened.
All that was happening was that the Presidential election happened between Weeks 8 and 9, and whenever there's a presidential election ratings for everything else go down because people are focusing on it. That happens every four years.
Of course though, in a nationally representative survey of NFL watchers at the end of the season everyone said that the presidential election had no effect on their NFL viewing, but that was just as untrue two years ago as it is for every election.
As is Roland's point, what people say and what they do are often VERY different things. :2thumbs: