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re: Gallup: Football still America’s favorite sport, but losing young fans
Posted on 9/12/26 at 9:31 pm to WestCoastAg
Posted on 9/12/26 at 9:31 pm to WestCoastAg
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they are just happy to watch their players and literal leagues be those ads! So much better!!!!!!!
What the frick are you babbling about. It is actually better. You have a shirt with a sponsor or a billboard in the background but you don't stop play every 3 minutes for a 3 minute ad break of pharma and gambling ads, plus the ad reads the announcers have to do in game, plus the starting lineups brought to you by home depot, plus the ad graphics overlays, plus the plugs for their network's other shitty shows, and on and on.
Football is a more exciting game to watch as a sport but the experience of watching a televised football game today is absolute dogshit unless you are totally broken in to watching endless ads. Televised soccer at least allows you to watch the game and follow its rhythm.
Posted on 9/12/26 at 10:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
They haven’t interviewed me :)
This post was edited on 9/12/26 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 9/12/26 at 11:10 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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I simply don't believe this.
Its true!
Posted on 9/12/26 at 11:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
An nfl downfall would be fantastic to watch
Posted on 9/12/26 at 11:12 pm to RLDSC FAN
With all the reports of CTE and other health issues, parents are not letting their kids play as much, which reduces interest
There’s so many more distractions and things to do and honestly if you’re not gambling on it (fantasy or straight up betting) the nfl regular season is pretty boring, and I’d wager many younger kids aren’t gambling much either because too young or don’t have enough money to waste on it yet
There’s so many more distractions and things to do and honestly if you’re not gambling on it (fantasy or straight up betting) the nfl regular season is pretty boring, and I’d wager many younger kids aren’t gambling much either because too young or don’t have enough money to waste on it yet
This post was edited on 9/12/26 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 9/12/26 at 11:21 pm to TexasTiger08
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My experience working in schools suggests most kids don’t give a shite about sports at all. I used to be able to talk sports, but they don’t know shite about what’s going on these days.
yep, really nothing is mass popular anymore.
“Famous” now means a much different thing that it did 20 years ago and 50 years ago. Everyone has their niches that they follow online in tv, movies, music, and more. Sports is on TV, but TV isn’t the default form of entertainment anymore
Posted on 9/12/26 at 11:43 pm to TTB
Not sure why so many people ignore the access to so many more entertainment options in these discussions.
Growing up, we had 2(sometimes 3) channels. So if you wanted to watch TV, those were your choices. Freshman year, we got the big arse satellite. And I don't think I have seen one second of the CBS station put of Bryan, since then.
Growing up, we had 2(sometimes 3) channels. So if you wanted to watch TV, those were your choices. Freshman year, we got the big arse satellite. And I don't think I have seen one second of the CBS station put of Bryan, since then.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 12:07 am to CR4090
Yep, the answer is kids have more options today and football is being seen as the sport of morons who want to damage their brains with hopes of making life altering money. Any smart athletic parent is pushing their kids to baseball - more money and less risk. And when we reach the tipping point for where soccer actually makes money in the U.S. then you’ll see major shifts away from football.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 12:14 am to RunningJacket
There are shifts away from football already but yes it’ll continue
But in general, there is shifts away from hardcore sports fandom in general. Even among those that do follow sports, it’s seems more through fantasy or social media instead of watching most every game and/or having a single team they support
But in general, there is shifts away from hardcore sports fandom in general. Even among those that do follow sports, it’s seems more through fantasy or social media instead of watching most every game and/or having a single team they support
Posted on 9/13/26 at 12:32 am to 1BamaRTR
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But in general, there is shifts away from hardcore sports fandom in general.
Going a level higher...kids these days just don't give a shite about anything other than getting their electronics and dopamine fix.
They just float around from one thing to another.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 3:26 am to PowerTool
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We need to bring back NFL Starter jackets, instead of the black hoodies that all high school students wear now.
Here you go.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 3:30 am to RLDSC FAN
Football is by far my favorite sport but my enthusiasm for it has waned significantly. Not sure how they measure that.
I'm not gonna suddenly start liking some worse sport better though
I'm not gonna suddenly start liking some worse sport better though
Posted on 9/13/26 at 5:56 am to TigerIron
WCA has some retarded takes sometimes. Of course no pause in play is much better than a logo on a jersey.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 6:03 am to RLDSC FAN
Premier League soccer on Saturday and Sunday morning, then right into college football and NFL football on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
It’s perfect.
It’s perfect.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:00 am to RLDSC FAN
I still believe baseballs fall in popularity with kids has less to do with the professional game and far more to do with the insistence that travel ball is the only thing that matters. You’ve got tee ball travel teams now.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:20 am to RLDSC FAN
That’s because the communists are intentionally turning football gay to ruin our country
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:21 am to RLDSC FAN
nfl is driven by fantasy sports, gambling, office pools, and daily fantasy.
it's their whole being. NFL popularity before the boom, was so shitty, people didnt watch their premiere night, of MOnday Night football, it had to go to ESPN from ABC
Any retard can follow the nfl, it's 1 game a week, for 17 weeks. Also, they have 9 home games, and over half can barely sell that out for christs, if it wasnt for MLB old trick of seats sold, not butts in seats, NFL averages would be poor, for only 9 home games.
it's their whole being. NFL popularity before the boom, was so shitty, people didnt watch their premiere night, of MOnday Night football, it had to go to ESPN from ABC
Any retard can follow the nfl, it's 1 game a week, for 17 weeks. Also, they have 9 home games, and over half can barely sell that out for christs, if it wasnt for MLB old trick of seats sold, not butts in seats, NFL averages would be poor, for only 9 home games.
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:21 am to Boodis Man
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Soccer comin'....you can tell from the world cup viewing numbers
We’ve been hearing this shite since 2005
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:33 am to TheRouxGuru
Judging by the student section at the Texas game yesterday, I'm surprised cricket isnt 1st on the list
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:33 am to Boodis Man
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Soccer comin'....
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