{"id":661035,"date":"2026-01-07T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661035\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:01:11","slug":"report-nfl-attendance-drops-by-0-8-percent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661035\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NFL attendance drops by 0.8 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when all numbers are up for the NFL, one number is down.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Business Journal reports that average crowd size dropped for the first time since the pandemic ended, with 69,055 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of available inventory sold to fans dropped from 98.3 percent to 97.6 percent, with 12 teams selling 100 percent of their tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Three teams were under 93 percent: the Jaguars (91 percent), the Jets (90.8 percent), and the Titans (85.2 percent). The Titans had the biggest drop in attendance, by 9.1 percent. The Jets saw a 5.1-percent decrease, and the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jimmy-haslam-i-take-huge-exception-to-people-saying-browns-are-dysfunctional\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:definitely not dysfunctional;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">definitely not dysfunctional<\/a> Browns had a 3.9-percent reduction.<\/p>\n<p>The 69,055 average attendance remains the fifth highest since Sports Business Journal began tabulating attendance in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a time when all numbers are up for the NFL, one number is down. Attendance. Sports Business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95636,7,6,116,4045],"class_list":{"0":"post-661035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-100-percent","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-the-nfl","12":"tag-the-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115853714082580145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}