It’s not merely a backlash against the Star Spangled Banner deniers. It’s the sports glut, the entertainment glut. At some point, there’s enough football on the air.
It’s not just the NFL. The Rose Bowl was down 27% and earned a record low rating, the worst ratings since records have been kept. Six more college bowl games have been added to this holiday season, bringing the total to a record 41. Will viewers reward the bowl season?
Bowl games are now the NIT of college football, anyone with a winning record gets in, so it means nothing.
And most schools actually lose money by going to bowl games, when you take account of the costs of sending teams to the bowl sites.