Diehardblues
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The bottom line is the stars on the teams drive the revenue. Dak being the #2 selling jersey impacts revenue. Not all teams have as popular of stars. Plus it drives those other entities of this era like Fantasy Football with so much more interest in individual players.because this isnt the late 80s. This is damn near 2020. Did they have Thursday night football in the 80s? NFL sunday ticket in the 80s? Mass participation in fantasy football in the 80s? Fan Fual and draft King in the 80s? Web sites with rabid fans in the 80s? To compare the nfl of the 80s to the nfl of today is, once again... RIDICULOUS.
Cmon, the nfl has their own damn network now.
The most popular players and their teams drive interest for the Thursday and Sunday night games, etc. If the league was full of Tampa and Jacksonville instead of New England and Dallas there wouldn’t be as much interest right now.
Could there be again? Of course but it would take time to build the stars and teams back up again.
The big name guys are the attraction. Taking one out at a time doesn’t impact but if you took them all out at once it would. There’s individual impacts around the league when they have less stars and worse teams.
When there’s crappy matchups like on Thursday or Monday nite for example the ratings are effected. So, it does matter who’s playing.
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