Now there’s a graduate thesis someone needs to pursue. How climate change hurt the NFL? Make that into a book and Algore will write the forward for it!
My thesis - which I keep repeating - is that significant rot had already set in. Much like a diseased tree falling when a major storm moves in, the NFL was already vulnerable. They had essentially killed the pace & flow through commercial/penalty interruptions. The league had already embarrassed itself with pathetic attempts towards virtue signalling in an effort to appeal to a broader advertising base.
All this resentment and growing disinterest was already manifest; all it required was a spark. Kap and the anti-American protests are what lit the fire. Now the boycott is spreading for no other reason than to stick it to yet another debauched entertainment vehicle no different than the rest of Hollywood.