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re: I believe football is dying.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:45 am to Rhino5
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:45 am to Rhino5
NSD gains more "hoopla" every year. Wouldn't mind it going down a notch.
The attendance is because of internet and T.V. Remember the SEC network payout?
The attendance is because of internet and T.V. Remember the SEC network payout?
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:45 am to ForeverGator
Saban is killing college football.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:48 am to Draconian Sanctions
It's going to happen. The south will transition whole hog pretty quickly to hard core soccer fans once they change the pointy ball game rules or it dies out.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:50 am to oman
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It's going to happen. The south will transition whole hog pretty quickly to hard core soccer fans once they change the pointy ball game rules or it dies out.
The smartest thing US Soccer could do is get full scholarships for every SEC school.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:50 am to oman
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The south will transition whole hog pretty quickly to hard core soccer fans
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:54 am to boXerrumble
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Even you damn Bama fans were not that enthused this year for some reason.
quote:We're enthused....... we're also spoiled rotten. Saban has this thing in a groove and we no longer have the need to have manic-depressive fits about the football team.
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 11:55 am to TeLeFaWx
The problem with soccer is that it sucks, it's a sport for children and girls. And Euro girly men I guess if that's your thing.
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:55 am to ForeverGator
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Here's why:
- Football attendance across the country is going down year after year.
- 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.
along w/ our wonderful politicians that keep importing third world immigrants who play soccor, cricket, or some teeball sport. We also have the journalism field wanting to sensationalize sports injuries for their own notoriety and gain while they pretend to "care so much" about the athletes and of course the lawsuit begals in it for the same.
It's not that REAL Americans don't continue to love football it's just that the gaping a-hole element of our society loves to denigrate and destroy what we love.
Nothing exemplifies this more than an SEC school actually threatening TO NOT PLAY FOOTBALL due to campus radical retards whining and it's idiot coach and athletic dept. enabling this disgusting behavior.
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:57 am to genro
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And Euro girly men I guess if that's your thing
You should walk onto the field and try and play with them. I imagine you'd have this happen to you:
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:59 am to ForeverGator
- Football attendance across the country is going down year after year.
Ticket prices are too high, concessions are too high, parking is too high. Too expensive to attend for most families.
- There's not near the hoopla surrounding NSD as there used to be.
Then why do we still have press conferences for 18 year old kids on ESPN?
- Even bandwagon fans are slowly not caring for the sport. (I didn't see near as many Bama bandwagon fans this year)
Lack of true competition among schools.
- 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!)
This boils down to tickets from the ticket office being too expensive. I think the DSOR was over $100 for a ticket this year from Auburn/Georgia. You can thank the Playoff for this as well. Can't travel that much in the span of 3 weeks if you have a real job.
- All of these lawsuits surrounding concussions and everything is going to start to really hurt the pockets of the NCAA and NFL.
Most head injuries could be prevented with better helmet technologies and actually teaching players to tackle instead of lauch themselves headfirst into opponents.
- Less and less families are having their kids play football. They're all playing less contact sports nowadays.
Full contact football shouldnt begin until the kids are around the age of 14 to allow their bodies to develop more before taking hits. Do a 7 on 7 scenario until then.
- 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.
I don't really see this at all.
Ticket prices are too high, concessions are too high, parking is too high. Too expensive to attend for most families.
- There's not near the hoopla surrounding NSD as there used to be.
Then why do we still have press conferences for 18 year old kids on ESPN?
- Even bandwagon fans are slowly not caring for the sport. (I didn't see near as many Bama bandwagon fans this year)
Lack of true competition among schools.
- 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!)
This boils down to tickets from the ticket office being too expensive. I think the DSOR was over $100 for a ticket this year from Auburn/Georgia. You can thank the Playoff for this as well. Can't travel that much in the span of 3 weeks if you have a real job.
- All of these lawsuits surrounding concussions and everything is going to start to really hurt the pockets of the NCAA and NFL.
Most head injuries could be prevented with better helmet technologies and actually teaching players to tackle instead of lauch themselves headfirst into opponents.
- Less and less families are having their kids play football. They're all playing less contact sports nowadays.
Full contact football shouldnt begin until the kids are around the age of 14 to allow their bodies to develop more before taking hits. Do a 7 on 7 scenario until then.
- 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.
I don't really see this at all.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:59 am to ForeverGator
I think in many ways you're right. I have season tickets to saints games and honestly it's a pain in the arse sometimes. It's a full day and I have to pay 9 dollars a beer and sit for 4 hours crammed. Even now with TV I don't watch outside of saints games. My kids probably won't play football either, I beat the frick out my body between football and rugby and I've had 2 seizures. I certainly don't want that worry for my kids.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:02 pm to ForeverGator
Interest in football is at an all time high.
What's dying is fan's enthusiasm to watch the game live.
It's ridiculously expensive and inconvenient to go to the games when watching them at home on a gigantic flat screen tv is almost as good.
What's dying is fan's enthusiasm to watch the game live.
It's ridiculously expensive and inconvenient to go to the games when watching them at home on a gigantic flat screen tv is almost as good.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:02 pm to ForeverGator
It is definitely trending down.
Money and everything slanted towards offense are ruining a once great game on all levels.
Money and everything slanted towards offense are ruining a once great game on all levels.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:04 pm to ForeverGator
It may have peaked but it's not dying anytime soon. Just follow the money. Football is alive and well.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:08 pm to ForeverGator
Holograms will eventually replace real players. No brains to sacrifice to the live football killer CTE.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:20 pm to PorkSammich
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Money and everything slanted towards offense are ruining a once great game on all levels.
The emphasis on offense is one of the good trends. There are more good offensive than defensive players nationally, so if the game emphasizes offense that means more parity.
Unless maybe parity is a BAD thing. It does seem like people who label themselves "college football fans" prefer the same teams to win/be good every year.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:21 pm to ForeverGator
Its the pussification of America. Men are becoming gayer by the minute and soon we will all be watching the Kardashians while fingerings our assholes. Sad tbh
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:26 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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Lacrosse is an expensive sport.
Explain if you would. I don't know. More than football.
Hockey is the damn expensive sport.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:27 pm to ForeverGator
Let's just hope that those stud athletes find their way to soccer. Aka real football.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:29 pm to roadGator
It's a lot like hockey in that the equipment is expensive.
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