Many fans had already stopped watching before this year's protests. My husband had become more and more frustrated with NFL recruiting thugs, and crazy rules over the years. He stopped watching last year when they allowed Kaepernick to protest during the National Anthem. We know several others that stopped watching then too.
Before all the backlash about the protests this year I read article after article about the NFL trying to figure out why they had lost fans. Excuse after excuse... Talk about out of touch!
There is something called denial ... and it ain’t just a river in Egypt.
All of these people think they are doing something righteous ... protesting some unnamed, ill-defined perceived injustice by taking a knee or locking arms or staying inside during the national anthem.
When the packers asked the fans to join them in locking arms, it really brought it home how much the players, owners, and commissioner are out of touch with their former customers.
By the way, I think it is a real possibility that anheiser busch reduces or pulls their ads. The telephone poll they took (which I called in) sounded very serious and not just for show. They said they have 800 veterans working for them and it sounded like they were not happy.