OK then, since you said you saw live shots of the game, I have to conclude that most fans don’t care a whit about the players disrespecting the flag and the anthem and with this, the NFL won’t be affected much by anything.
Which is actually an encouragement for these players to continue doing what they’re doing.
I will also have to conclude that the above tweets regarding the actual games are fake...
“I have to conclude that most fans don’t care a whit about the players disrespecting the flag and the anthem and with this, the NFL won’t be affected much by anything.”
I’m wondering how much you actually know about NFL football and its fans. Almost everyone who actually attends the games are super fans, who invest thousands of dollars UP FRONT for season tickets, large amounts of additional money for parking and concessions, as well as a great deal of time and energy. Most of these folks have already paid their for season tickets up front for the year, so they are much less likely to cut off their noses just to spite their faces by not attending when they’ve already paid so much money. Not to mention, these people often have had the same seats for multiple generations and paid for season ticket rights.
And ticket sales are not even where the NFL makes most of its money or even where most of the fans are. Most of the fans watch on TV for essentially free, and most of the NFL money comes from billions of dollars paid in multi-year, up front contract bids from the major networks, who in turn recoup their bid money via advertising sales. It is only this latter group of fans where actual, REAL numbers exist that show their diminished interest, namely the Nielsen and similar ratings of broadcast games, and this is the group the NFL is worried about right now.
No one will know what current season ticket holders will do until next year’s season tickets are up for sale.