The book SWJs ALWAYS LIE goes into detail how they infiltrate institutions and destroy them.
Leftists hated football - masculine, American, flyovers and flags, cheerleaders, winners and losers, and basically everything they hate.
The weak link? The players!
The Mizzou Tigers two years ago showed that you can co-opt the football players (tell them not to be Uncle Toms) and get the fans to hate the players. It killed the sport there.
Enter the Muslim convert Kaepernick. He was co-opted by his Muzzie SJW girlfriend. He’s got issues being half white and being the recipient of great benefits - unearned millions basically. Easy target.
Then the MSM showered him with honors and attention as if he was ‘keepin’ it real’ while the other blacks were selling out to da man.
NFL didn’t want the ‘optics’ of white owners cracking the whips getting black players to get back in line. So they ignored it and it got worse. Remember also, the NFL and the rich owners are out of touch with the average Joe fan. They’re either not watching at all (the SJWs hate football) or in their skyboxes. They think things like the flag and anthem are for kids and the rubes. They forgot their core fanbase is comprised of America-loving, beer-swilling white dudes.
It will be interesting when this happens. Right now there are lots of conservative suburbanites who have hopes for soccer becoming the national sport.
However, when this happens the suburbanites will be pushed to the back of the bus. The best soccer players will not be the intelligent effete elites of the suburbs, but the same brutes that populate the upper echelons of soccer around the world.
Soccer will be king and the "conservative" suburbanites and their offspring will be relegated to college club teams and ultimately the stands.