Remember the baseball strike 94-95?? That’s where this NFL BS is headed. Owners will let players get away with their crap, fans will stop watching — next thing ya know, TV contracts go bust, stadiums are only half full....fans are tired of millionaire players shit. I’m a Saints fan. So far no Saints player is doing anything stupid on the sidelines during the Anthem. If one does, I’m out, done, screw NFL football It took years and years for baseball to recover. The Expos never did and ended up in DC....
Baseball eventually recovered by deciding to look the other way and letting players start abusing steroids like crazy, resulting in records being set all over the place. Generated a lot of interest but corrupted the history of the game. This option is not available to the NFL because they already look the other way while players abuse steroids and they already neutered the defenses via officiating to ensure records are getting broken left and right every year. So if the NFL takes a beating, they have no baked in "get well" emergency plan.