Kaepernick is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Yep, there are other factors too, causing declines in viewership.
Just among people I know, I hear some of these reasons:
1. Too many thugs in the NFL.
2. too many commercials. Why do they have a bloc of commercials after the scoring play, come back for the kickoff, then go to another bloc of commercials again?
3. Games take 3 1/2 hours or more to play nowadays. Why do games take much longer to play nowadays compared to the past? Baseball has the same problem.
4. Too many replay reviews.
5. Girl sideline reporters who don’t know much, if anything about football, who add nothing by their commentary.
Yeah I used to think it was a big deal but then I realized they are scripting every one. There are very few announcers that can carry on an intelligent off the cuff discussion of football. What the woman have unmasked is how fake all the banter is. Americans like sincere and genuine. I remember Phyllis George when I was a kid she was beautiful and could talk football. Her interviews didn't grate on me like the present day crop of Phyllis George wannabes