ESPN really overpaid for a lot of these programs after which their ratings went right down. They are finding it hard to make money on their investments. I don’t see NFL ratings going back to where they were before, with all this disrespecting of the flag and the national anthem.
“I don’t see NFL ratings going back to where they were before, with all this disrespecting of the flag and the national anthem.”
Technically, I think it could be done. They’d have to use a major ad campaign and consistently do some things I think the players and commentators are simply constitutionally unable to pull off. Essentially, they’d all have to out Tebow Tebow. Also, the fact that they would no longer be spouting the Leftist narrative would mean the Leftists would attack them. The Leftists I have known were not sports fans, but they can be loud and distracting. To pull off stopping the slide in ratings and the reduction in, say, the NFL’s income, would require a major, coordinated effort of newscasters, players, owners and top level media back-office types. Too many of the people involved have their own agenda. That agenda has caused the slide and those infected won’t change for love or for money.