re: No one cares about college football anymore

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Y'all are shooting the messenger.

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This. Of all people to know what young people care about. It would be this 16 year old. He's probably right. We still care, but who knows if kids will care about football in 20 years. Parents are beginning to refuse to let their children play football because of the dangers. Who knows what will happen?




This could also be an elaborate troll by some 30 year-old who figures he can get a 10+ page thread by claiming to be 16.

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My boy will never play football while his brain is developing. I just don't think the risk is worth it when he has his entire life to live. If he happens to be an extraordinary athlete while playing other sports like basketball, soccer, or baseball

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Actually there are studies that show soccer has and even higher rate of concussions than football. Baseball, all it takes is one line drive, in a game or practice (one) and your child may never be right again. Basketball, well I am not sure about it.

The point is nothing is without risks. Football at a very young age I doubt has any problems with concussions (they just are not big enough to hit that hard), and most players start playing football in high school anyway.

DOES NO ONE WATCH THE NHL OR MLB?!?!?!?!

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College football is not as popular as it used to be among young people. I’m a high school sophomore.

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How the hell would a 15 year old kid in high school know how popular football was with kids in high school 10-20 years ago?

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do you realize that lowering the price of a ticket happens because demand is down? Literally, there's no other reason.

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Not necessarily, sometimes the price is to high. I would go to every Alabama football game (and it is an 11 hour drive, one way) if the tickets were half the price. The demand is there, the games have almost priced themselves out of the market for the average fan.

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Metro Atlanta

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Found your problem.

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Actually there are studies that show soccer has and even higher rate of concussions than football. Baseball, all it takes is one line drive, in a game or practice (one) and your child may never be right again. Basketball, well I am not sure about it.

The point is nothing is without risks. Football at a very young age I doubt has any problems with concussions (they just are not big enough to hit that hard), and most players start playing football in high school anyway.

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No sport has a zero probability of being permanently and/or seriously injured, but that doesn't mean the probability is equal for all sports. Sure, you could get hit with a line drive in face while playing baseball, but the probability of that happening in your lifetime is small even for people who play professional baseball for 10+ years. It's orders of magnitude less probable than football players developing CTE and other brain injuries/diseases. Play football long enough and developing CTE almost becomes a certainty. And it doesn't take decades for CTE to develop. There are high school football players who have developed CTE.

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I'm honestly ashamed to admit I was a mean girl in school.

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this is the least shocking thing ive read on this board.

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Soccer is mindless

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I don't much care for it myself ... I was a sports writer for 20 years, first match I ever covered I didn't know what the #&$@^* was going on ... but a hell of a lot more young kids in my neck of the woods ... and I'm in Alabama, football central ... play it than football, and it remains big all the way up to the high school level, where the matches draw big crowds.

And of course the rest of the world thinks it's "football."

Captain of the cheerleading squad. Homecoming queen.

I really wasn't that bad, tho.