Burrow on Concussions

[SunsetBengal]

(10-06-2022, 04:10 PM)ATOTR Wrote: You said: 

"defenses were allowed to destroy franchise QBs, which caused rule changes as it was a direct impact to revenue."

Franchise QBs are getting injured at the same rate now as they were when you just spit out a bunch of random names of QBs who had long, established careers. 



Also, when was the NFL losing revenue due to Franchise QBs getting destroyed?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/193457/total-league-revenue-of-the-nfl-since-2005/

Way to send a link to a paywall site, or give up all of your info for the free version..

Anyway, I lived and watched in that era.  Promising teams that did lose their starting QBs did cost the NFL revenue as some fans quit watching as they viewed the  season as lost, TV ratings went down for games that those teams were featured in, which cost the NFL revenue growth.  Even if the NFL's total revenue still showed growth in that period, they still lost out on plenty of dollars from casual fans' eyes that stopped watching those teams for the duration of the season. 

So now let me ask you;  Did the NFL suddenly start caring about players safety for humanitarian reasons, or because it was or potentially was going to cost them a lot of revenue?