The middle aged/older crowd is leaving sports because of the wokeness. The young people don’t watch because it doesn’t interest them....they are video game fans, they are interactive with their viewing.
Televised sports are over, dead, they just don’t know it yet.
“The young people don’t watch because it doesn’t interest them....they are video game fans, they are interactive with their viewing.”
That is part of it but other things factor in as well.
Most, if not all, schools have done away with phys ed. They consider it time wasted. Can’t let the tykes have ONE period a day free of indoctrination.
Too many over protective parents who won’t let their kids play sports. Most kids grew up in families that valued healthy kids and expected us to play and rough house.
They knew team sports could teach us life lessons that books couldn’t.
How to win with humility, lose with grace, work as part of a unit, follow rules or face consequences and how to work out problems.
Modern parents are so scared their precious snowflakes will lose or get a boo boo they forbid their children the valuable experience of sports.
A changing demographic that prefers Futebol (soccer) and American sports are in for a downfall.
The dusky people from south of the Rio couldn’t give a fig for traditional American sports. The rat party has been importing them for decades.
Then there are the followers of mad mo who think head chopping, stoning and throwing people from tall building are competitive activities.
Time is not the friend of televised sports as we know them.