I don't know. I don't think it will go away, but I think it has probably already peaked. There is a perfect storm of protests/brain injury/broadcast market changes that will keep chipping away at the audience, until is flattens out at some lower level, maybe 50% of what it is now.
A good thing to compare the situation football is in today would be horse racing. In the first half of the 20th century, horse racing was the top spectator sport. Then the media market changed, just like now with football. Television came to people's living rooms, and broadcasters wanted to televise horse races. They said no, because they didn't want to cannibalize their audience who went to the tracks. So television turned to football, eager for an audience, and that was it for horse racing. It is still around, but it is no longer America's sport, and never will be again. I think football will become the horse racing of the twenty first century, still there, but a shadow of its former self.
Yep.
I think the depth of the offense that these ‘protestors’ were allowed to perpetrate just because of their race, has destroyed the thought of ever watching another game in the hearts of a pretty significant amount of former viewers.
I don’t tune in to watch racist blacks OR whites do anything.