re: NJ hs disbands varsity football; article on football's decline ...

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Football participation has dropped precipitously for some time. High school football enrollment is down 4.5 percent over the past decade...

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Someone at the Washington Post apparently doesn't know what "precipitously" means. In fact, to say that something has dropped "precipitously for some time" is an oxymoron. A 4.5% drop in participation levels, even if replicated over the next decade, will hardly kill off football. It may, though, have a more dramatic impact in areas where football was already relatively weak and underdeveloped, like the Northeast.