I dont disagree, the NFL will face that and more if this continues. My point was in the meantime, the NFL can afford to lose game day revenues, it’s a small portion of total revenues for a team.
I dont think they will can Goodell anytime soon but if this is still going on late this season, then who knows. Right now, the owners, commissioner and players are all aligned for better or worse. They’re counting on fans to forgive and forget.
This is the Internet Age. Wishful thinking on their part.
The problem for the NFL is and this a truism for all of business is that losing a customer makes it very difficult to win them back. The NFL has some advantages in that it has a monopoly on pro football in the USA. It doesn’t however have a monopoly on leisure time and discretionary spending. There are lots and lots of other alternatives and that is where the NFL is quite vulnerable. Fans who have given up watching or going to games may get used to not doing the NFL and then it becomes extremely difficult to win them back. Football widows must be wondering how this all came about but I am sure many are happy.