that chart shows me the boycott has been pretty ineffective i mean no boycott last year and a supposed drop of 1.5 million viewers giant boycott this year a supposed decrease of 600k viewers, impressive...
There WAS a boycott in 2016, continued in 2017 - the data clearly shows that
That’s TV ratings, not empty seats in the stadium or drop in sales of merchandise...
This year they started counting online streaming viewers into the total number of viewers stat. So likely they took a huge loss, but it appears mitigated because they can gin the numbers up with a ton of folks they couldn’t before.
The NFL is hurting. The only teams that are reliably coming even close to selling out stadiums are the Super Bowl contenders.
It’s not solely due to the boycott but that is definitely a factor. Death by a thousand cuts.
Where have you been, the boycott started last year, the year ratings started to take a plunge.
It’s been a rolling boycott as more and more people drop out of watching the NFL. I stopped watching after Bob Costa went on an anti-gun rant before a NFL game. That was it for me. Nothing the NFL has done since has dissuaded me.