Oh my goodness.
We’re getting closer to another NFL season. The exhibition games start in a couple of weeks. And it will be a new season of controversy over the national anthem.
And if attendance and TV ratings are down again??
Some excuses used last year for declining attendance and TV ratings:
1. The sunny side of the 49ers stadium gets so hot, nobody wants to sit there.
2. Overall attendance averages were held down as the Chargers play in a 27,000 seat soccer stadium, which distorts year to year attendance numbers.
3. Late in the season, people were out Christmas shopping instead of going to games or watching games.
4. So many people were traveling around Thanksgiving, that fewer were attending games or watching on TV.
5. Late in the season, so many teams were out of playoff contention, that people lost interest.
6. Bad weather in many cities held down attendance.
I’m sure there were others, but point is, they came up with anything besides people being upset about the anthem protests, to explain declining interest in the NFL.
Play ball, see how it goes this year.
As to number 3, was last year the first year that people went Christmas shopping?