NFL is Rigged: Week 18 edition

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Originally Posted by wachashi

You don't know what you're talking about.

"The NFL has always been the most popular sport, but the gulf only got bigger and bigger in this age. You saw that recently in the decline of ratings across the board. The NFL was down 7% this year. Everybody else was down way more than that. It's just a different ball game now. And now, from what I understand, I'm not sure they can even do the 'Hey, we get more viewers than "Big Bang Theory" or "Masked Singer"' because 48 of the top 50 broadcasts are just football games now. It's over. This is television. Television is propped up by football."

The NFL is King of TV

The NFL's current TV contracts were finalized in 2011. They haven't changed since then, other than Fox paying an extra $3M in 2018 to take over Thursday night football. It's not a year per year contract. The ratings don't mean anything until the NFL actually writes new contracts with TV providers. Last year's ratings don't affect this years profits, and that's been the case for 10 years.