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I believe football is dying.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:36 am
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:36 am
Before you bash me for saying these things, I want you all to know that of course I do not want football to die. I am just seeing things changing over the years and it seems to me that football could be obsolete in the future (hopefully not in our lifetimes), but it's certainly trending that direction.
Here's why:
- Football attendance across the country is going down year after year.
- There's not near the hoopla surrounding NSD as there used to be.
- Even bandwagon fans are slowly not caring for the sport. (I didn't see near as many Bama bandwagon fans this year)
- The ticket prices go up, but aftermarket prices are at an all time low. (You could get national championship tickets on stubhub for $20 this year at game time!)
- All of these lawsuits surrounding concussions and everything is going to start to really hurt the pockets of the NCAA and NFL.
- Less and less families are having their kids play football. They're all playing less contact sports nowadays.
- Overall, I just don't see the overall fandom that use to exist in all teams. There just seems to be a collectively "whatever" about football now. Even you damn Bama fans were not that enthused this year for some reason.
Let's hope that it doesn't happen though.
Here's why:
- Football attendance across the country is going down year after year.
- There's not near the hoopla surrounding NSD as there used to be.
- Even bandwagon fans are slowly not caring for the sport. (I didn't see near as many Bama bandwagon fans this year)
- The ticket prices go up, but aftermarket prices are at an all time low. (You could get national championship tickets on stubhub for $20 this year at game time!)
- All of these lawsuits surrounding concussions and everything is going to start to really hurt the pockets of the NCAA and NFL.
- Less and less families are having their kids play football. They're all playing less contact sports nowadays.
- Overall, I just don't see the overall fandom that use to exist in all teams. There just seems to be a collectively "whatever" about football now. Even you damn Bama fans were not that enthused this year for some reason.
Let's hope that it doesn't happen though.
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:37 am to ForeverGator
I can kind of see what you are saying.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:37 am to ForeverGator
Go away Cowturd
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:38 am to ForeverGator
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Even you damn Bama fans were not that enthused this year for some reason.
Why should they be? They know every year that Saban is still coaching that they will be 11-1 or 12-0 with the best players and 5 stars backing up 5 stars.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:38 am to ForeverGator
quote:
- There's not near the hoopla surrounding NSD as there used to be.
That's just because the Gator program is not what it used to be.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:38 am to ForeverGator
Yeah, it's kind of weird being a fan of a sport where you know these guys are suffering debilitating long-term injuries as a result of playing.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:39 am to ForeverGator
football may have peaked, but I don't see it "dying" or anything close to it for the foreseeable future
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:40 am to ForeverGator
Some dumb decisions have made it so that the sport now exists in a bubble, both on ticket prices and TV revenue.
All of that will come back to earth and the game will live on, just without every program having their own nutrition center and barbershop.
All of that will come back to earth and the game will live on, just without every program having their own nutrition center and barbershop.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:40 am to ForeverGator
It's interesting to think about these big stadium deals because there is a chance football will be dead long before the billion dollar investments can be recouped.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:41 am to AHM21
With the salaries NFL are paying and the benefits being doled out by colleges, there will always be football.
It is having an effect on youth leagues but for kids trying to better themselves it is still a sport worth pursuing
It is having an effect on youth leagues but for kids trying to better themselves it is still a sport worth pursuing
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:41 am to ForeverGator
quote:Then why was everyone bitching about our fapping?
Even you damn Bama fans were not that enthused this year for some reason.
Why did YOU have such bad Bama fatigue?
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:41 am to ForeverGator
quote:
- There's not near the hoopla surrounding NSD as there used to be.
A kid announced his commitment by sky diving, and another drive up in a limo.... Wtf are you talking about? It's gotten too outrageous IMO.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:41 am to ForeverGator
you are feeling the results of spurrier retiring
eta: when saban retires there will be new energy
eta: when saban retires there will be new energy
This post was edited on 2/4/16 at 11:42 am
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:42 am to ForeverGator
quote:
Even you damn Bama fans were not that enthused this year for some reason.
I dunno, I was pretty enthused
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:42 am to ForeverGator
I can tell you at the youth level, it has been dying off over the past 5 years. We are combining 2 or 3 schools now, just to field a single team to compete. The reasons are many, but include - increased awareness/fear of head trauma, AAU baseball, AAU basketball, and an increased interest in Lacrosse. There are also more kids leaving football to go play boys volleyball and soccer than any other time I can remember. It's just a complete abandonment of "contact" sports (other than the lesser evil - Lacrosse).
If it's like that all over the country, then I can see it dwindling in the future for sure.
If it's like that all over the country, then I can see it dwindling in the future for sure.
This post was edited on 2/4/16 at 11:43 am
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:42 am to ForeverGator
I believe you should stop posting 
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:42 am to Geaux23
quote:Pretty much this.
you are feeling the results of spurrier retiring
eta: when saban retires there will be new energy
For any fan, when things start sucking, all of a sudden you realize football just isn't that big of a deal. Amazing how it works that way.
This post was edited on 2/4/16 at 11:43 am
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:43 am to ForeverGator
I agree. All things come to an end. 90s NBA was on the top of the world and now look at it. Pro sports are rigged to the point where it lost all value.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:44 am to CoachDon
Lacrosse is an expensive sport. Probably part of the reason football continues to dominate in poor states and why the southeast is so dominant.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:45 am to ForeverGator
It isn't just football, it is all sports. When I was a ute Track and Field were big in both college and high school. The Olympics were the biggest thing going. Now, no one GAS about T&F except me...and my all white high school track team from 1962 would still finish in the top 5 in the regional meet in New Orleans counting only the events used in both eras.
Football is being hurt by the loss of little league programs and the differential in maturity levels at about the age 12-13. Some "kids" are huge, shaving, with children at that age, and some are still speaking with falsetto voice. Parents do not much like it.. and the whole teen scene is pretty metro sexual now.
Football is being hurt by the loss of little league programs and the differential in maturity levels at about the age 12-13. Some "kids" are huge, shaving, with children at that age, and some are still speaking with falsetto voice. Parents do not much like it.. and the whole teen scene is pretty metro sexual now.
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