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Akileese posted:My only argument is he's only looking at it from a fan perspective (he's essentially arguing against Malcolm Gladwell's point that in 25 years football will be dead), but pretty much refuses to address (Football is supported at a young age and kids are brought up playing it from age 10 on. If parents pull those kids from playing it, where does the talent come from?). I think the best argument against talent attrition is that lower income families are going to be less likely (or at least slower) to stop their kids from playing football, and football pulls much of its talent from those families. The bigger concern is going to be high schools dropping it altogether because of safety concerns. The second scenario he lists, and tries to refute is pretty much how I envision it quote:It becomes a regional sport, primarily confined to places where football is ingrained in the day-to-day culture (Florida, Texas, etc.). Its fan base resembles that of contemporary boxing—rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves. The NFL persists through sheer social pervasiveness—a system that's too big to fail and too economically essential to too many micro-economies. Veshpo fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jun 2, 2016 |
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Waffles Inc. posted:Essentially, I can't imagine a world in which a teenager raised in a white liberal house in 2030 doesn't completely roll their eyes at football like current ones do at UFC or boxing or Nascar Yeah, that's basically the point that I was making (and that I'm sure a lot have made), that the people most likely to keep their kids from playing football for the next few decades haven't been a major part of football's talent pipeline for a long time.
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Jun 3, 2016 14:51
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KFBR392 posted:So how do you guys think the current situation where tickets "cost" 45 but cost 499 should be fixed? Who should get the Delta? Teams whose tickets end up selling for significantly more on the secondhand market should probably raise their prices. Teams whose tickets sell for significantly less on the secondary should probably lower their prices.
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Jun 5, 2016 05:54
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exploding mummy posted:He worked on a UFC preshow on Fox Sports. I'm sorry, I can't help myself, it's "toe the line"
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Jun 6, 2016 23:07
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exploding mummy posted:You were champing at the bit for that correction. Full disclosure, I had to look it up to make sure I hadn't been thinking it wrong the whole time. I also learned that that phenomenon (tow the line, chomping at the bit, duck tape) is called an eggcorn, so thanks for that.
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Jun 6, 2016 23:17
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:I'm trying to be a sympathetic reader here and figure out what context is missing that could be reintroduced to make this anecdote anything other than a guy being extremely cool. Islam is a religion of peace
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