Macur writes: "In the case of Giants kicker Josh Brown, the league has shown that it could not care less about women and really, really doesn't want to call out its players for doing bad things to them."
Giants kicker Josh Brown was charged in 2015 with assaulting his wife. The N.F.L. suspended him for one game, but has now reopened its investigation. (photo: Elsa/Getty Image)
23 October 16
elevision ratings for the N.F.L. are down 11 percent this season, and league officials have been grasping for possible explanations.
To some extent, they blame the presidential election. Some fans have tuned out football, they theorize, to tune in to a political race in which sexual assault and the treatment of women have been front and center, thanks to Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee who has bragged about groping and kissing women without their consent.
Those issues are important to some people, like — and this is just a guess here — women. And anyone else with even a sliver of decency.
