Oh they’d still be co-opted into building stadiums. Not NFL stadiums, but the NBA, MLB, and NHL all pull it off. Heck even the NCAA is good at getting new palaces built, and those teams can’t even move. And sports fans will be sports fans, get rid of football they’ll watch something, which they already do because the football season is short. And celebrity worship will still exist, plenty of folks just think the famous are better.
So no, nothing would be better without the NFL, it would be all the same problems, only with a different league.
“So no, nothing would be better without the NFL, it would be all the same problems, only with a different league.”
I failed to add in all the other Alphabet Soup Sports “Associations.” These are private businesses. They should not be allowed to gain access to places to “Play” by having the taxpayers finance them. I like motorsports, but I don’t see anyone getting the public to pay for those venues. Bruton Smith owns the Charlotte Motor Speedway (NASCAR). He came out here to California and bought Sears Point Raceway out of bankruptcy, has spent millions of his own money to make it a world-class facility and had to battle with the local dairies and wineries over the noise. But it’s a big time money maker and no government money was involved.
That, and a number of NFL ‘palaces’ are financed by the team. Of course they generally aren’t within the reach of a major city.