The games suck right now. A 6-6 tie is considered one of the best games of the season. Chew on that. Combine it with fallout over domestic violence, player health, player behavior, terrible officiating, growing anti-football sentiment amongst parents, expansion into foreign markets that will never care about American football, the resurgence of the No Fun League and, yes, the brave decision of a small group of men to exercise their Constitutional rights in the most unpopular way imaginable, and you get crap ratings.

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