The las vegas style over the top extravaganza they have made it into is repellent. And now add in political commercials.
Agree the game has become to commercial. That said it was a heck of game.
Here we see again changing demographics. The melting pot of America is bringing more focus on the international sport of soccer. The world plays it. Many coming here now have little affection for all things America like football. Culturally it is not inherent to them so they do not adopt it. This runs through many aspects of American life.
I also agree that video games take kids from the sand lots and fields and allows them to adopt the couch. We also have parents now whom are anti sport with any violent action involved. Football is a rough sport.
Let us not forget to add we had an all east coast game. Teams and location always feed into viewership.