As NFL Anthem Protests Grow, Attendance At NFL Games Is Cratering. Just Look At These Photos…
This Sunday’s National Football League games showed that the national anthem protests are not only destroying the league’s image, but their attendance as well.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said last week that while the league hopes all players stand for the anthem, it will not be penalizing players who wish to protest. Nor will the league put hard and fast rules in the rulebook for how to respect the flag and the anthem. The mass protests that gripped the league over the past few weeks have also affected the NFL’s bottom line. Ratings are down and public opinion of the league is at an all time low. Now, the protests seems to be affecting attendance as well.
A glimpse at stadiums from yesterday’s games shows that the league has big problems that extend beyond the cratering television ratings.
Empty seats are multiplying at an alarming pace:
You know who isn't winning? The NFL. This was kickoff time in Jacksonville. Look at those empty seats! pic.twitter.com/fd7CwOuHk4
— Fistful of Doom (@fistfulofdoom) October 15, 2017
And we are underway #Browns #Titans pic.twitter.com/dcrirhjo6r
— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) October 22, 2017
Chicago #NFL #CARvsCHI RT @chrisbleck: lots of empty seats at kickoff pic.twitter.com/hrs7vXgj6Z
— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) October 22, 2017
#NFL #NYJvsMIA RT @nsbbcom: Nobody cares about jet or dolphins @[me] pic.twitter.com/k6wPSlIRJG
— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) October 22, 2017
Swaths of empty seats here post kickoff. pic.twitter.com/5hCHF89wkq
— Armando Salguero (@ArmandoSalguero) October 22, 2017
1 minute before kickoff. Oodles if empty seats!! @NFL has destroyed one of the most lucrative and successful franchises in sports history! pic.twitter.com/1d1wfSTmx4
— Greg (@OBgynFl) October 22, 2017
Photo via @ednorris – keep it up @NFL @NFLPA @Kaepernick7 @jemelehill those are thousands of empty seats in Baltimore. #StandForTheAnthem pic.twitter.com/NVHeqvZ4ER
— Jerry Kane (@nyjerrykane) October 15, 2017
Wow.
Next time, pick something else to protest.
