The gambling drives television viewership up, while actual attendance by fans at football stadiums has generally not grown. With the NFL's exclusion of Tebow -- who is very popular with fans at stadiums -- the NFL may be saying that genuine fans (as opposed to gamblers and television viewers) don't really matter to the NFL's business model. | The gambling drives television viewership up, while actual attendance by fans at football stadiums has generally not grown. With the NFL's exclusion of Tebow -- who is very popular with fans at stadiums -- the NFL may be saying that genuine fans (as opposed to gamblers and television viewers) don't really matter to the NFL's business model. |