Check out the other games and stadiums from yesterday.
Additionally, did you see the Army Navy game on Saturday? It was snowing there, as well. Packed stadium.
Army-Navy is a special event that has attracted national attention for more than 100 years. You’d get a huge crowd at the Kentucky Derby even in the pouring rain.
And no kneelers.
The Army Navy game has always drawn that crowd regardless of the weather because that game always matters. But NFL attendance late in the season, particularly with crappy teams, had often been affected by bad weather.
The point is that showing empty seats at cherry-picked late-season games really doesn't prove anything. League-wide stats are really the only ones that matter because they include teams still in the hint, as well as the bottom-feeders.
The real indicator is going to be viewership of the Super Bowl. That's when they usually pull in large numbers of casual fans to see the "event". My guess is that the numbers are going to be down significantly this year. People I know who have hosted Super Bowl parties on past uears are not doing so.
The NFL truly will start to panic if the Super Bowl numbers are bad.