[paul544]

While it may not be obvious, the NFL’s recent moves to court women, hispanics and now international markets, suggests strongly that their core audience is growing less enthusiastic. This is a survival move for the long term.

[Steve_Seattle]

"While it may not be obvious, the NFL’s recent moves to court women, hispanics and now international markets, suggests strongly that their core audience is growing less enthusiastic. This is a survival move for the long term."

The NFL could go the way of NASCAR, which has had big declines in attendance in recent years. Ten years ago, NASCAR was flying high, but now I see a lot of empty seats, and they are even downsizing the seating capacity at some of the tracks.

Auto racing in general doesn't have the following it used to have - the top Indy Car drivers used to be household names, now most people have barely heard of ANY of them.