Unfortunately, the NFL isn’t going anywhere. They are a multi billion dollar enterprise and can afford to take a 10%-15% hit on ratings. It really does seem like they are firing their conservative customers and going all in with Generation Snowflake.
Boxing is still around, but it’s a shadow of what it once was.
I suspect we’ll see the same trajectory with the NFL.
You can do that once and shake it off, you can’t continue to lose 10-15% year after year. The NFL is headed for a reckoning. Eventually the owners will either have to cut the huge salaries or go bankrupt. If they attempt to cut salaries, the result will be a strike. If they break the strike ESPN and the leftist sports media will crucify them. If they don’t break it they go bankrupt.
At some point it may survive but only with a reduction in teams, salaries and audience. My twenty-one year old son a cop could care less about the NFL. My fifteen year old watches the Pats.