This is just an anecdotal opinion from a middle-aged female who doesn’t know much about football:
BUT!
Aren’t most NFL Fans young, male, patriotic, red-blooded American Guys?
Aren’t many football games preceded by the trooping of the Colors, military Honor Guards, and tributes to the Troops?
Isn’t American Football considered by many to be the REAL American alternative to Soccer and other European Games?
Don’t most NFL players make quite a bit of money from these people who are supposedly “oppressing” them?
Doesn’t the NFL see that if this nonsense continues, they will lose their core audience?
Just askin’.
YES
All true.
Distraction for young [white] male patriotic red-blooded American guys, so they don't see what's happening to their country.