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If the National Football League gradually declines, what sport will America turn to next?

Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:37 pm
Posted by mountaintop
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:37 pm
If the National Football League gradually decline because of safety of the sport, politicization of the Sport (National Anthem, police brutality, race, mass incarceration, etc.), penalties, boring teams in Super Bowl every year (Patriots/Broncos/Steelers), what sport will America turn to next as leisure?

Baseball? Seen as too old-school, traditional, conservative.
Hockey? Too white for some Americans.
Basketball? Too fast, urbane, hip white and black players.
Soccer? Too internationalist.
Posted by Xenophon
Aspen
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:37 pm to
Soccer

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Posted by LL012697
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:39 pm to
It would be the NBA pretty easily

The ratings back it up
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 11:25 pm
Posted by oVo
Member since Dec 2013
11838 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:40 pm to
Archery.

Keep Hammering!
Posted by wildtigercat93
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:42 pm to
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Basketball? Too fast, urbane, hip white and black players.


Subtle
Posted by starsandstripes
Georgia
Member since Nov 2017
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:43 pm to
rugby
hockey
Posted by Bench McElroy
Member since Nov 2009
33967 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:45 pm to
Nothing. It'll be like the pre-salary cap era when the NFL was still king but wasn't the huge monolith that dwarfed everything. There were more attention divided to a wider array of sports back then and that will probably happen if the NFL ever declined. Niche sports like boxing would benefit a lot more than the mainstream sports such as baseball and basketball.
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:46 pm to
quote:

Baseball? Seen as too old-school, traditional, conservative.
Hockey? Too white for some Americans.
Basketball? Too fast, urbane, hip white and black players.
Soccer? Too internationalist.
it is clear we need a new sport for our non-conservative, non-traditional, non-hip, non-'urbane', non-white, non-black, slow, all American people that so love the NFL.
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:46 pm to
wwe
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 10:47 pm
Posted by bamaboy87
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:48 pm to
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
Member since Nov 2017
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:52 pm to
Soccer, same as rest of the world. Although when that becomes the case they'll figure out a way to frick it up with commercials. Football is so painful to watch these days. Once you adjust to soccer and appreciate it, the nonstop action with no commercials makes anything else awful to watch.
Posted by crazyLSUstudent
391 miles away from Tiger Stadium
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:52 pm to
Professional Cycling
Posted by Socrates Johnson
Madisonville
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 10:55 pm to
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urbane

Did you mean urban?
Posted by ThePTExperience1969
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Apr 2016
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:05 pm to
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If the National Football League gradually declines, what sport will America turn to next?


Another football league that consists of comparably talented players like the AFL and USFL were?
Posted by philabuck
NE Ohio
Member since Sep 2008
10380 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:10 pm to
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Soccer


High level soccer is great and not a 5 hour infomercial like other sports.
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
49341 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:11 pm to
Probably soccer it's growing extremely fast and more cities are getting pro teams. Seriously go to an MLS bar or any during the World Cup when the US is actually in it. Hell if we ever become an elite team and compete for the World Cup the sport will explode
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:20 pm to
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Basketball? Too fast, urbane, hip white and black players.


What the frick does this even mean
Posted by Backinthe615
Member since Nov 2011
6871 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:28 pm to
Anecdotal, but seeing mid-south kids all-in on youth Hockey makes me think it’s NHL.
Posted by TigerNlc
Chocolate City
Member since Jun 2006
32513 posts
Posted on 6/6/18 at 11:53 pm to
I would watch anything before the NBA.
Rugby > Soccer
Posted by TheCoveBR
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2014
352 posts
Posted on 6/7/18 at 3:22 am to
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If the National Football League gradually declines, what sport will America turn to next?


Lacrosse as the South gets more into it. A Running Back type player (Bold prediction ) is going to dominate the sport, then you'll see that athlete (the type that used to be the NFL's bread & butter) gravitate towards that.

Soccer, Basketball and Baseball all benefit.

MMA/Boxing.

Hell.All sports.
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