Kneeling and racism were not enough. Misogyny and homophobia never stood a chance. The presidential coups failed. The NFL is unbreakable.
According to a recent report from Sports Affairs Journal“NFL viewership is at its highest level in eight years, with a per-game average of 17.2 million viewers, an increase of 7% year over year. This is the most high since 2015 over nine weeks.
NBC has 22 million viewers Sunday Night Football. CBS is seeing its best broadcast in eight years, averaging 18.1 million viewers. FOX is at 17.6 million. ESPN/ABC/ESPN2 was 15.4 million. NFL Network is up 25%, and even Prime Video is averaging 12.7 million viewers. Remember that this year Three-day NFL Draft drew 54.4 million viewers — 5.3 million more than in 2022. FOX previously revealed that 2023 gave us the The most watched Super Bowl with 115.1 million viewers. And thanks to Taylor Swiftthe Chiefs/Jets Sunday Night Football The week four game was the most-watched Sunday broadcast since the Super Bowl, peaking at 29.4 million, according to BNC,
In 2021, NFL games consisted of 75 out of 100 most watched television programs. No other professional sports league in America has reached the top 100. By 2022, that number had increased to 82 out of 100 most watched American television shows. Roger Goodell became NFL commissioner in 2006. Last month, his the contract has been extended until 2027largely due to the growth of the game – putting billions in the pockets of team owners.
Thanos thought it was inevitable. Goodell knows he’s made of Teflon.
It’s not good. When entities become too big to fail, wrongs are ignored and bad behavior proliferates.
In 2016, 2017, and 2018, we saw fans say they were no longer going to watch the NFL. Some stopped the games in solidarity while Colin Kaepernick was blackballed. Others were furious that black people were asking police to stop shooting those who looked like them and decided they had had enough of “politics in sports.” Everyone lied. Because as you can see, the league has never lost its strength. The NFL has reached new levels of popularity.
Eventually, players took a knee, fists were no longer raised, and those on the field stopped caring, causing the rest of America to shrug their shoulders. But even then, the drama persists and nothing seems to be able to penetrate the NFL’s shield.
Race normalization occurred. People continued to watch the matches. Most didn’t even know it happened.
The attorneys general of New York and California launched an investigation into the league for hostile workplace discrimination for racial and sexual harassment and age bias, and no one seems to care.
The Brian Flores Class Action Lawsuit against the league for its alleged racist hiring against black coaches is still ongoing.
Jim Trotter filed a 53-page racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the NFL that was the playbook on how the league treats/mistreats black people, and ESPN Stephen A. Smith was happy to lend a hand to Goodell.
According to Forbes, last year the NFL made $11.9 billion in revenue, 7% more than the year before. So the next time something racist happens or something cruel is done to a woman or someone from the LGBTQ+ community, your first reaction should not be anger. Self-reflection should come first. There’s a 100 percent chance you did something that put money in the league’s pockets, allowing what made you angry to happen.