Bob Ley, leading the Friday Four on ESPN's Outside the Lines, mentioned on a recent episode that the NFL's Thursday Night Football game on television lost 27% of its audience, compared to last year's numbers from the game during the same time of the year. That's more than a quarter of its viewers! Faced with such a stunning revelation of reality in 2017, he asked if the violence of the game was turning off viewers.
In a conversation with an anti-Trump friend of mine who is an avid football fan in the Pacific Northwest, he said to me that the empty stadiums and declining numbers in television viewership was a direct result of the public's recent awareness and anger over the NFL's inability to deal with the rising numbers of "concussions" and "head injuries" in the game.
Are these people that stupid?