(12-09-2019, 06:51 PM)MoJagFan Wrote: NFL is broken and becoming less enjoyable.  It isn't because of the athletes, coaches or working people.  I agree with the Pez dispenser metaphor above.  I just could see a total nut kick on the next CBA.  Leagues take their fans for granted looking to expand to new people that might not even care about football.

We are having our annual corporate floggings and it seems like they would rather chase new customers in foreign lands just to pump up the subscriber numbers at the expense of the existing customer base.  The average US household spends more on services than the people we are chasing.  I just don't understand this thinking.

It's market saturation. The NFL believes that their fan base in the US is what it is and isn't growing. If anything, they believe their US fan base will be shrinking in coming years due to the increasingly absurd amounts of money paid to people who can handle a ball, increasing pushback on the use of municipal funds to build a billionare's playground, and more importantly because of the concussion scandal and the NFL's role in it. The logical move is to look to the international markets like Europe, China, Mexico, even Canada to see what they can stir up to replace what they're going to lose as US popularity dips over the next couple of decades.

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