Sporting News article 10/12/17, "NFL viewership is down more than 7% through Week 5 versus 2016. Game attendance is down 18% through Week 5 compared to 2015." SN article further noted that the average NFL viewership per game lost 3.2M viewers compared to 2015. Every NFL dollar lost the players lose 48 cents. Sporting News survives, in large part, based on their NFL coverage. The periodical's reporting was objective. The MSM continues their NFL players propaganda lovefest. 

The National Anthem "protests" are sad and pathetic racial politics. MSM propaganda erroneously misreports the players 1A rights in a private company. NFL needs to stop the NA because it offends the NFL players and creates a "hostile work environment". The CBA expires soon and the owners can decimate the players financially. The players create the financial losses for their own racial identity politics. The players can keep throwing the "Black Power" salute in the NFL's workplace. Yet the MSM blindly defends it.