You hit on the head, the sports you mention and the Premier League of Soccer in England are like this. English long-time sports writer calls that league in England “The greed is good league”.
NFL is messing up, people use to turn it on on Thanksgiving to watch a game traditionally. Not sure if people will continue to have this kind of enthusiasm.
They are killing college football as well. Especially with all of the crazy uniforms, and games every day of the week.
College football should be played on Saturday afternoons in on-campus stadiums, period.