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NFL per-game attendance makes big jump

By Ben Fischer and David Broughton
The average NFL crowd grew by 3.25% to 69,442 per game in 2022, the second-largest figure in the last 19 years, according to an SBJ analysis of published box score attendance. The NFL’s post-pandemic surge in attendance nearly wiped out a precipitous decline that began late last decade aft...

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