These quitting fans are emphatic that they won’t be back. I imagine that later weasel words from the NFL when they feel the bite won’t fool them.
I suspect in a week or so all these kneeling or hiding teams will be back on the field standing during the anthem and will proclaim their “protest” of Trump over and that it is time to play football! All the sports shows will then declare in unison that they are so glad this is over and that we can now put this behind us and move on and that the fans forgive them, ect.
But it will be too late, and their ratings will never recover to where they were previously.