Knees, Domestic Violence And CTE: Why You Stopped Watching Football
NFL viewership has gone down in recent years. There are a lot of theories about the reason for the decline. To help sort it out, we asked listeners why they stopped watching.
A lot of people watch the Super Bowl every year.
You know that. Last year about 111 million people watched. The game three years ago became the most-viewed ever, with 114 million people watching.
But football ratings overall have dropped in the past couple years. Numbers for the 2017 season were down 9.7 percent, continuing a decline from the year before.
To be clear, the audience for football is still enormous and dwarfs almost everything else on TV.
Football is still dominating, but just a little bit less so.
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