Posted on 08/10/2017 4:11:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Without the nfl the majority would be rest room attendants
last year I read that MLB was picking up many viewers and fans that pro football lost.
You are correct. The Doctor who was the first do document CTE, Dr. Omalu, played by WIll Smith in the movie, just recently stated “having children play football even though HS is CHILD ABUSE”. Now, I am not saying I agree with the statement, but all it is going to take is for a kid to get killed or hurt seriously in the next few years and some lawyer use this statement by Dr. Omalu and file a lawsuit against a school district. The cost of the lawsuit will economically make football too much of a liability and you will begin to see football banned across more and more school districts.
Football will become more like Boxing in the next 25 years. Recall that from 1900 to 1950, Boxing along with Baseball were the two most popular sports. By the 1960’s the NFL took over and baseball fell to number 2. After the death of the Korean boxer in the ring in the 1980’s and Ali’s CTE issues, boxing today is not on the radar.
I don’t think football will fall as far as boxing, but it will face a decline in participation in the future, thus popularity.
To Skip Baylis and all the other commentators: F*** Colin Kaepernick! He took a stand and made his statement. Now let him reap what he USA sewn. I for one dont give a rat’s rear about him.
Somehow, somewhere, Jimmy the Greek is smiling.
Kapernick did say that Hillary should be in prison.
Someone posted a 2013 FBI crime report of homicide data a while back. I saved it for reference at times like this.
(Per 1 million members of murderer’s race)
White, killed by black...9.83
White, killed by white...10.22
Black, killed by black...53.94
Black, killed by white... 0.77*
*This is what Black Lives Matter is protesting.
Hillary isn’t lefty enough for Colin. A lot of blacks feel that way about Hillary, one of the main reasons she lost.
I attribute boxing's decline to two things: (1) pay-per-view boxing drove up the cost of watching matches on TV that used to be free; and (2) the fact that most of its followers finally figured out that many of the matches were fixed anyway.
Boxing lost its audience to pro wrestling first (if you're going to watch a staged fight, it might as well be an entertaining one), and later to MMA fighting.
Sure. Let them. I’ll bring the popcorn and let’s see how fast tickets fall to rock bottom prices.
What happened to boxing is the same thing that happened to tennis. Basically it became a bunch of non-personalities. Back in the day, Boxing had personalities, like Ali, Frazier and Foreman. Tennis had guys like Borg, Connors, McEnroe.
The closest boxing had is Mayweather and Pacquaio, but they aren’t even Heavyweights. Who can even name a Heavyweight boxer these days?
Everyone is replaceable. Crapernick and Bayless are no one special. Fire them immediately.
They are trying to reconfigure this as a concussion issue, correctable by helmets.
That is TOTALLY WRONG.
The issue is thousands of sub-concussion rattlings of the brain causing physiological changes (i.e., permanent, progressive brain damage).
Everyone needs to watch the Will Smith movie before commenting further. Otherwise, you will just be SUCKING UP the DISINFO.
For the record, I still love boxing and football. But let’s at least BE HONEST, so the people directly involved (athletes and families) are not deceived.
They would be better off going back to leather helmets.
Brilliant! ESPN ‘experts’ are slowly killing what puts money in their pockets. But we’re the fools.
Alberta’s Child:
I don’t watch MMA, but boxing was at a level of MLB back in the 1920s to 1950’s era. Thus, it had an audience that was more than just a niche audience. That audience was gone by the 1990’s.
Based on what you are telling me, what you have now is that a core group of former Boxing fans switched to MMA, but that does not translate to an increase in “Market Share” so to speak.
I do agree with your #2 about fixing fights, no doubt that was a major part of that sport.
Sez it all.
You are correct, people have emotional attachments to football. In some states and cities it is like a religion. Thus, emotions take over and don’t allow for rational thinking.
Football is changing, whether I (We) like it or not, and I played HS football in a state that produces lots of NFL players (I think we are in the top 6 or 7) in terms of where players grew up and played their HS football. In other words, I live in a state where HS football is big.
You have Hollywood making movies about this, you have Doctors saying it has a direct link to CTE, all you need now is major Networks pushing the narrative and major law schools talking about the legal issues (given Dr. Omalu’s statements that is child abuse) and somebody is going to file a lawsuit and win against a school district. And in the end, the Economics of the situation will win over the emotions. I doubt people are going to want to raise their school property taxes to cover the legal exposure to CTE from kids playing football.
Given the ongoing feminization and vilification of masculinity in this country, I can see that too.
The dislike of Kaepernick couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact he has worn pro-Castro T-shirts, socks portraying police officers as pigs and repeatedly smeared the country?
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