Just a lot of hard talk. So many people are desperate to watch sports, especially here at Free Republic, they will watch anyway. They’ll bitch about it, but never give it up. If interest were truly dropping, we would see sports topics dwindle, but I don’t see evidence of that.
I saw an FR thread yesterday about the upcoming NFL season. Pretty much every response I saw to it was along the lines of "I'm not watching" so we will have to see what actually happens.
I'm with you though. It is easy for us all to virtue signal but in order to make an impact, we have to follow that talk up with deeds and turn that TV off on Sunday afternoons.
I guarantee that if the NFL TV ratings are even 20% less than what they normally are, there will be sheer panic at NFL headquarters on Park Avenue, NYC.
Because their entire business growth model has been based on ever-increasing TV revenues. Once the networks start bidding 20-30% LESS for TV rights, the whole house of cards begins to come down.
Also the networks televising these games are going to start getting phone calls from their affiliates looking for credits and rebates on their declining advertising revenues.