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LeBron says NFL losing sheen as fun part taken away
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LEBRON James isn’t sure why the NFL is losing US television viewers while the NBA and Major League Baseball enjoy strong ratings, but he warns the fun factor is dwindling.
The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar said he had noted how several top NFL players have said the NFL is more and more becoming the “No Fun League” and that could be a factor in drops of about 18 or 19 percent on Sunday and Thursday and nearly 25 percent on Mondays.
“I don’t know the reason,” James said. “I’ve heard some of the comments from some of the players about the game that the fun part of it is kind of being taken away. I know when I played (American) football I played it for that reason, for the competition and for the fun of it. I’ve seen a couple of the main guys talk about how the game is not as fun. You definitely don’t want to take the fun away from the game. That’s why we all fell in love with sports in general, to have fun with it.”
The NFL fade comes as baseball’s World Series enjoyed high ratings for the Chicago Cubs’ first title run since 1908.
The NBA had the highest ratings since Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls were a 1990s dynasty for James and his teammates making the greatest rally in NBA Finals history, recovering from 1-3 down to win the series just as the Cubs did.
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