1. Early on in the regular season, an NFL ratings dip generated a lot of headlines.
But most people looking at the situation with a critical eye understood that the pandemic and election coverage would hurt the NFL's ratings. The league wasn't even in a tiny bit of trouble as far as viewership was concerned.
And now that the regular season is over, the final numbers are in, via Sports Business Journal, and we can see the entire story.
For the season, the NFL's overall ratings were down 7% from last year—hardly a figure that should worry the league in such a chaotic year.