Television ratings are down in America’s most popular league. And poor play, cable cutters and player protests have all been blamed
As the owner of the New Jersey Generals in the short-lived United States Football League, Donald Trump took on the NFL and lost. More than 30 years later, the mogul may have extracted an accidental revenge on the world’s most lucrative sports league via his presidential election campaign.
Through week four, the NFL’s television ratings were down by 11%. In an internal memo dated 6 October and obtained by several media outlets, two league executives floated an explanation.
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