Except that with the demise of youth football, there won’t be anywhere near as many newly minted football fans graduating high school.
Football as a sport has inoperable cancer.
“Football as a sport has inoperable cancer.”
Yes, and these folks here somehow think that this will “blow over.” Perhaps, but unless it “blows over” fairly quickly, the damage to the NFL might be terminal. The whole sorid mess that encompasses the NFL relies on megabucks to keep it fed. Any cessation in a big chunk of that “income,” will cause serious financial stress on the whole. Television has a huge chunk of their revenue stream as a result of their purchase of rights to televise the games. If they don’t get the viewership they promised their advertisers, the advertisers get a rebate on what they have paid, but providers are locked into multi-year contracts with the NFL that they have to pay out probably irrespective of ad revenue. And everyone in the NFL payroll has to be paid as well. So those of us who hope the NFL goes under, don’t need for years to go by to see it go out of business.
Youth football isn’t as demised as people want to think. Yes youth TACKLE football is having a lot of problems. Meanwhile youth FLAG football is growing by faster than tackle is dropping.