I said this many times on this board, and constantly got ridiculed with my opinion. Greed eventually kills, it always will.
If you want more old school football, College FB is where it's at. There are so many games, you are guaranteed to get 2-4 good ones a week. The crowds add SO much to the game. The NFL has a massive crowd issue, and the broadcasts continue to mute them as much as possible. I don't watch TNF. The amazon broadcast has so little crowd noise and the announcers are terrible. Its a snoozefest.
The NFL has reached its peak. Younger generations just don't care, and the NFL is losing lots of millennials with the nonsense this game has become.
Also, one of my biggest pet peeves are TV ratings. The way to measure viewership has never been better and more accurate. You can't even compare the old ratings to the new ones. It's apples to oranges.