re: Mark Cuban "NFL is ten years from implosion"

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Middle class white kids will stop playing football. What percentage of the NFL do they make up?

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You're not thinking about it properly. you're thinking in terms of players only, and they make up more than you think players-wise. I'd venture to say about 60% of your OL and 80% of your QBs are from middle class white backgrounds.

Plus, who supports the game? Middle class whites and their corporations they work for. If middle class white kids aren't playing the game, they will lose interest. Guaranteed. Look at boxing as a precedent.

And here's the biggest thing. Who pumps money into HS football programs and college football? Mainly middle class-upper class white kids' families. That stops as soon as they don't play or care anymore.

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As long as there is an economic benefit to playing football, it will not end.

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The economic benefit ends when the checks stop being cut due to lack of interest. Attendance is already waning in the college ranks.

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And the rich schools and kids won't stop pouring money into football. They'll just bring the poor kids to their schools to play it for them. We've already seen that.

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We've seen them bring over a handful of the poor kids, but the team is still comprised of at LEAST 50-75% rich kids/white kids at these schools.