You get up and leave the game or shut off the TV is the same thing as the players giving up on the field. The 12th man gave up on the team. mid way through the fourth was I the only one saying now get the ball back and score and we are back in this? from what I have read there are very few of us who did not give up. As for the rest if they were on the team they would have been cut at the beginning of the season like the other cancers on the team.
The team did stop playing the fans did