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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
I think this is become bigger then NFL and sports.
To be honest we're witnessing history in the making, this period will be remembered and talk about by future generations.
There could be a Colin Kaepernick day years from now.
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I don't think so. If anything this could be looked on as a trigger of the downturn in the NFL. NFL ratings through three weeks are down 10% from last season and last season was a down year but key is that it was an election year that got a lot of attention. Last season some people were blaming the ratings decline on Kaepernick which I personally dismissed as I believe the election attention was the major cause. However now that ratings are even lower than last season I'm not so sure. Maybe NFL popularity simply peaked a few years ago? Maybe it's because more people are streaming games compared to say three years ago? Or maybe a lot of Americans simply don't like politics mixed with their sports? Likely a combination of all of them but the fact that some teems are getting loudly booed for going to their knee during anthems is probably an indicator that it's turning off a large portion of the population.
Would be interesting to see the Canadian ratings. I will say that I have watched more cable games on Sunday afternoon than years past because if a few good games are on cable I would rather watch them in HD rather than suffer through the DAZN experience any longer than I have to.