Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Nov 1, 2017 14:08:33 GMT -5
Various explanations given, but the one that was of interest to me is that the decline is the sharpest among 18-34 year olds.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/10/26/mark-cuban-foresaw-an-nfl-implosion-of-greed-now-he-says-its-accelerating/?utm_term=.280c2f82fc57
If one has a generational shift in general interest, that has implications for not only professional sports but college sports as well. In other words, don't invest in big stadia and expect that they will come. Several generations of Greater Boston residents regularly frequented Suffolk Downs and the nearby dog track Wonderland. Wonderland has long closed and Suffolk Downs is now being peddled as a site for an Amazon campus.
“Anecdotally, I [Mark Cuban] have an 8-year-old son that plays flag football. He is in his second year and he and most of his teammates still don’t know any but the most basic rules of the game. Unlike generations before, they have no interest in watching the game. So they have no clue what the rules or even the names of the positions are.”
That change may be more generational than sport-specific, but the bottom line is it’s more of an issue for the NFL right now.
“Kids playing Minecraft or watching YouTube videos instead of watching sports on TV and the lack of families having a hardcore allegiance to their city’s teams is a fundamental problem for all major sports,” he wrote.
That change may be more generational than sport-specific, but the bottom line is it’s more of an issue for the NFL right now.
“Kids playing Minecraft or watching YouTube videos instead of watching sports on TV and the lack of families having a hardcore allegiance to their city’s teams is a fundamental problem for all major sports,” he wrote.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/10/26/mark-cuban-foresaw-an-nfl-implosion-of-greed-now-he-says-its-accelerating/?utm_term=.280c2f82fc57
If one has a generational shift in general interest, that has implications for not only professional sports but college sports as well. In other words, don't invest in big stadia and expect that they will come. Several generations of Greater Boston residents regularly frequented Suffolk Downs and the nearby dog track Wonderland. Wonderland has long closed and Suffolk Downs is now being peddled as a site for an Amazon campus.
I kid, I kid!
