Sensible people are ignoring NFL players, period.
If I go to a baseball game or watch it via TV....I’m into the game itself. Same for basketball, hockey, etc.
For some idiots sitting there and drawing $500,000 a year to play 16 lousy Sunday or Monday games....and wanting to huff up on some logic that I care about their feelings over such-and-such agenda item....is about the most ridiculous logic that I’ve seen in forty years.
Everyone should do the NFL a favor, and just cut back to watching one single game of NFL action a week, period. Pick your favorite team and just give up the two or three other games that you might have watched. Let the TV sponsors know what you are doing and just sit back. The sponsors will ask for rebates on their advertising and the NFL will start talking about pay cuts in the contracts for the 2017 period. People will realize the error in their thinking by that point.