“Stadiums… have loads of empty seats.” Very sad. NFL had a mystique that every manufacturer wants: love, loyalty and flash. Now, NFL has disrespectful criminals who show off tattoos and flip off fans. Wow. So sad.
Every July there is a Tour de France race in France and every year the owners beg for American leaders. They say, Please come over and manage our race. Why? Because the Tour lacks American genius found even at the high school levels: league commissioners, team histories and fan rituals. The Tour is just a group of 20 millionaires making temporary teams of 20 riders with temporary uniforms who each go their separate ways in August. No commissioner, no team histories and no fan bases after 100 years.
But with that lack of overriding team loyalties has come a willingness to root out corrupt competitors whenever they occur because the fans don’t have a loyalty which overrides their sense of sportsmanship.
The NFL lost that drive to have competition be fair and upright five decades ago.