Something like this won’t really alienate fans from the sport.
MLB alienated many fans not for these types of antics, but for a player strike.
Yup. The NFL/football is bigger than all the other US pro sports combined because it has a huge number of very casual fans who just aren’t political and probably don’t care one way or the other about the national anthem anyhow.
I bet ratings just go up from the free hype and publicity this story is giving them. The NFL’s popularity only went up after fruity celebration dancing and chest slapping became common place. It really should surprise no one that the NFL is the most popular, look around at the state of general culture.
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