The NFL isn't dying. Ratings may be down but the most valuable sports teams in the world is still the Dallas Cowboys, that aint changing any time soon.
Esports won't take over as the crossover of viewers is *probably* less than 10%.
The NFL isn't dying. Ratings may be down but the most valuable sports teams in the world is still the Dallas Cowboys, that aint changing any time soon.
Esports won't take over as the crossover of viewers is *probably* less than 10%.
The middle class is very visible.
This is the class educated enough to understand, head injury = bad, PERIOD.
It is already very clear that the middle class is withdrawing their children from the sport.
That sets a tone..
Only the Poor and the Idiots keep running their heads against the wall..
The death of NFL is inevitable.. Simply due to the mechanics of the game..
-- what could they do, change regular football into flag football ? haahahahha
How many of the black kids getting football scholarships are coming through from middle class backgrounds? The "poor and the idiots" are probably 75% of the NFL's player base.
There will always be plenty of kids coming through the system who's only way out is sports. Just because middle class kids aren't playing in little league, doesn't mean a lot.
Rules are being put in place to reduce head injuries and the league is taking it very seriously. I can see more money flooding into protection instead of changing the rules of the game.
Well if you think they don't want to watch violence, I'm sure most people would be more likely to move to the NBA/NHL/MLB before watching esports.
If anything, I think people will always want to go somewhere and watch something. Yeah of course you have large tournaments that are in big stadiums, but there's nothing like the weekly or three times weekly fixtures across the country you can go and watch with a few thousand other people in esports, and I don't think there could possibly be scale for that.
Competitive gaming is NOT A ****ING SPORT.
And besides, many professional sports players are from low income areas where becoming great at a sport is one of the few routs to fame and success. And those are not the people who have overprotective helicopter parents who coddle their inept incompetent sheltered children.
Rugby has two rulesets League and Union with the latter being arguably safer. They're tweaking both at the moment to reduce the amount of concussions. The NFL have tweaked their rules plenty of times I'm sure they can moderate things a little better.
I'm slightly surprised eSports is such a big thing now. I mean, I understand the appeal of watching people play videogames, but I'm not going to watch a Counter Strike tournament for more than 30 minutes.
meanwhile, in America and Japan (slightly moreso Japan)
baseball
meanwhile, in America and Japan (slightly moreso Japan)
baseball
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Baseball is boring :-X
meanwhile, in America and Japan (slightly moreso Japan)
baseball
I copied this link for another thread butShow Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohhwH6yMO7ED5xc7S/giphy.gif)
Baseball is boring :-X
and yet clearly that guy paid for some tickets
i won't disagree, it's boring 60% of the time
but you take the feeling of watching an inside the park homer or a grand slam, and it will never stack up to an amazing touchdown
meanwhile, in America and Japan (slightly moreso Japan)
baseball
I copied this link for another thread butShow Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohhwH6yMO7ED5xc7S/giphy.gif)
Baseball is boring :-X
and yet clearly that guy paid for some tickets
i won't disagree, it's boring 60% of the time
but you take the feeling of watching an inside the park homer or a grand slam, and it will never stack up to an amazing touchdown
I bet if you ask younger kids today what a homer or grand slam is, they might not know..
But, they'd probably know what a mega-kill or dominating is..
I bet if you ask younger kids today what a homer or grand slam is, they might not know..
But, they'd probably know what a mega-kill or dominating is..
i don't want to live on this planet anymore
I bet if you ask younger kids today what a homer or grand slam is, they might not know..
But, they'd probably know what a mega-kill or dominating is..
i don't want to live on this planet anymore
hahahaha
I bet ya'll remember our parents telling us about fishing.. It's like that..
The young people sees baseball/ football like fishing.. It's just not cool anymore..
that just makes me miss going fishing
that just makes me miss going fishing
I thought crabbing was kind of ok, but fishing was really tedious..
Drone racing looks far more entertaining than any of the sports.
Drone racing looks far more entertaining than any of the sports.
I prefer women's beach volleyball personally, but to each their own.
By chance I saw a really good video today about improving NFL safety wise by abolishing the kickoff.