For the final installment in our Countdown-to-Kickoff features this week, we’re answering a big question: Where is the NFL headed in 2018 and beyond?
When it’s truly over, when the NFL attempts to fill up a gigantic, town-swallowing stadium with nostalgic but largely ambivalent fans one last time many, many, many years from now, what will they say was the beginning of the end?
Even after everything the NFL has gone through over the last decade, the league still carries tremendous weight. The ground shakes whenever it moves. Television programming is at its mercy, as are most of the politicians, businesses moguls and executives pulled into professional football’s orbit.