WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? NFL Broadcasting Stocks Slump As Protests Rise And TV Ratings Fall.
Related: NFL picked sides in the culture war, now it has to live with the consequences.
Given the toxicity of today’s politics, keeping sports as a refuge from politics would have been very smart. They chose . . . poorly.
UPDATE: Don Surber: Why Trump Picked On The NFL.
What’s funny is, institutions can completely immunize themselves to Trump simply by behaving in ways thought unexceptionally proper and dignified just a couple of decades ago. And yet, from the news media, to universities, to the NFL, they seem utterly incapable of doing so.