re: I believe football is dying.

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that is shifting to the millennials who are much more entitlement oriented. they're asking what football is going to do for them instead of the other way around.

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You're right. We should just blindly donate to our alma mater or football program of choice.

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Liberals and contact sports is why, if true.

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not that you're wrong because you aren't as I already pointed out here..

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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.

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there is the MADD element out there, the mothers(and other dimwits) who are against ANYTHING that might hurt "the babies" and therefore it must be BANNED BANNED BANNED.

You know, like they want to ban automobiles...

(oh wait,, yes they are simpletons but their knees jerk all the same)

Football won't exist in 50 years.

When I was a kid going to the big LSU game was the biggest deal ever. Now, kids have so many options. I told Pimp Jr I would let him use my tickets next year because he's old enough to drive and he said he only goes because it's "our time together" and he really doesn't think his friends care much. Sure they like the atmosphere and tailgating of a big game, but who wants to see the crap games or the day games or the games with bad weather or....

There was this 360 camera thing in Tiger Stadium during the 2014 season. It was during the MSU game when they beat LSU for the first time since the 90's. The people next to me sold their six seats to a bunch of coeds from MSU. When I saw the photo, every single girl was looking down at their iphones while all the old timers were watching the game with life or death expressions on their face.

I think a generational shift has occurred. With all the games televised, and all the entertainment options available. I'm not sure that kids born in 1990 are going to fill the stands like kids born in 1980 would.I don't think football games are enough for this generation.

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I mean the truth is, going to the games is just not that interesting. Even if you're into it, it's better and more exciting on TV.

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I agree. I thought I was going to pass the torch. Seems like the kids don't want the torch. They have their own things to do. I hear the same thing from all my friends. The kids just don't care. They don't dislike it, but they aren't wired to devote an entire day to something like that. They like to watch it at home, comment on message boards, talk about it on social media in real time, etc.

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But if you're right about cord cutting, I can definitely see it happening. I had no idea how liberating it would be to cut the cord. I worried about missing shows. Missing games.

I barely miss anything and pay much less money. When I don't have the ability to watch something, I actually don't care. In fact, I'm finding myself becoming less and less interested in watching any kind of TV.

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this has been precisely our experience as well. i had no idea. we cut our bill by more than 50% and have lost ZERO content. i lost the convenience of timeshifting cable programming such as espn. even so, i can still watch archived games. i just have to wait until the game is over. with my digital antenna/pvr computer, i can timeshift ota programming. otherwise, everything else is archived over the internet.

we do still care about shows. we just watch 1 episode a day. at that rate, we get way behind on shows but catch up during the breaks. it's great. no worry about cliffhangers.

i can't imagine ever going back to cable.

I think you nailed it. I've been saying this for years. Football is a unique sport that only worked in the adolescence of the United States, and among the grandchildren of pioneers. These were hard, proud, manly men that didn't exist, in such large proportion, anywhere else in the world. It continues today out of cultural habit, propelled by an attenuating American manhood.

Today's American men are mostly effette metrosexuals. They'll gravitate toward soccer along with the rest of the world's metros and the women.

Twenty years from now, if it exists at all, football will be to Americans what Rugby is to Englishmen. It might very well be outlawed, or litigated away, as a commercial enterprise.

Many on here will treat you with skepticism, even disdain, but they will be surprised at how quickly football declines.

nah. it's just not interesting to you when your team is not really championship caliber. thats normal

The political elites do not want to destroy football, they simply want to take command and control of it. Have they completely outlawed the tobacco industry? No, because the tax collections from this industry empower the hypocritical elites who claim to be moralist.

With football under their thumb, they can tax it, use it to make public service announcements, and use it to keep the public distracted from what is going on in Washington.

Football is a great sport in the hands of good people. But if the government becomes the caretaker, the sport could morph into something very ugly.

College football has gotten too big, too important, too much money, that has gotten too many corporations involved trying to figure out how to squeeze more dollars out of it.

I long for the day when I can sit down to a college football game and not have to endure one hour of commercials for a three hour game.

Once ESPN's business model is chopped at the knees, it might actually move football back in the direction of amateurism.