Super Bowl Viewership Drops To Lowest In Decades

The NFL is continuing to have decreased viewership as they have embraced players kneeling for the national anthem or teams refusing to leave the locker room until after the anthem was played. The 2021 Super Bowl had 3.5 million fewer viewers than the Super Bowl from the previous year and 18 million fewer viewers than its peak in 2015. Average viewership of regular-season NFL games decreased drastically this year after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said ahead of the season that he would “support” players that kneeled for the national anthem, and that the NFL was “wrong” for not initially supporting

