The moral case against football

[CrimsonTider]

Did you even read my post? The whole point is you can make a trends analysis of the future of a product long before it loses profitability. People literally do this for a living.

where is the trend report that suggest a decline in football?

 

[Malta]

If you want to call it a niche sport, fine. However, although Soccer is the number sport in the world, it hasn't a league on the face of this earth that generates more revenue than the National Football League. Soccer is a niche sport here in America.

Let's not act like the USA is the Dominican Republic. We talking about the NFL being the number 1 sport in the third largest country on earth, with 313.9 million people...many of whom live better than the rest of the world's population. Only China and India are bigger than the US and they aren't producing any soccer stars. So if you exclude those two countries for all intents and purposes, the the major sport in one of the world's largest countries is American Football. The early growth of modern soccer began in the 1300's, so it has a lot of years on American Football, which is relatively young. Also, soccer is more readily accessible in many areas of the world, not expensive and you don't need major equipment to play it.

Finally, no other sports league outside the U.S. - Soccer included (as I stated) - generates more money than the NFL, not even close, and money makes the world go around. So if you want to call it a niche sport, like it's phukin Lacrosse, despite the fact that it's loved in a country with a population of 300 million....so be it.

Soccer leagues in Europe generate roughly $30 billion, the combined populations of France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK is less than that of the US, and the leagues in those countries generate $14 billion.

 

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Soccer leagues in Europe generate roughly $30 billion, the combined populations of France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK is less than that of the US, and the leagues in those countries generate $14 billion.

Leagues? Plural?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

where is the trend report that suggest a decline in football?

You're just being purposely obtuse now.

White people watch the most sports and spend the most money on them.

But only white Americans watch football. White Americans are dwindling somewhat in number. The Hispanic, Asian, and African populations that will supplant them probably won't be into football as much overall. Even if they spend less on soccer and basketball, those sports have a global fan base to earn from, unlike football.

 

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But only white Americans watch football. White Americans are dwindling somewhat in number. The Hispanic, Asian, and African populations that will supplant them probably won't be into football as much overall. Even if they spend less on soccer and basketball, those sports have a global fan base to earn from, unlike football.

only white Americans watch football?

Have you been anywhere in this country breh?

 

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What we've learned from this thread

- Football is dying
- Football is a niche sport
- only white Americans watch football
- Because football is only popular in America, it's going to die

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

only white Americans watch football?

Have you been anywhere in this country breh?

I was talking about white Americans as a subgroup of white people. Of white people globally, only white Americans watch and spend money on football.

 

[Taadow]

“America is good at making us feel OK with things we really shouldn’t feel OK about,” he says. “It’s what we’ve done for years with cigarettes, what is still done with our consumption of fossil fuels and meat...”

Oh.

 

[jadillac]

LOL....yes, white ppl are a huge portion of NFL fans, but that is AMERICAN CULTURE moreso than race.

This means that as Hispanics, Asians, etc become more Americanized they'll join in on the football train as well. They already have if you look around.

lol @ thinking Hispanics who were born and raised here will somehow automatically be soccer fans. Dominant culture trumps race.

Soccer is big in Africa, but why don't majority of black folks mess w/ it? Simple, b/c it's not the American culture.

 

[Trip]

You're just being purposely obtuse now.

But only white Americans watch football. .

False

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

False

LOL....yes, white ppl are a huge portion of NFL fans, but that is AMERICAN CULTURE moreso than race.

This means that as Hispanics, Asians, etc become more Americanized they'll join in on the football train as well. They already have if you look around.

lol @ thinking Hispanics who were born and raised here will somehow automatically be soccer fans. Dominant culture trumps race.

Soccer is big in Africa, but why don't majority of black folks mess w/ it? Simple, b/c it's not the American culture.

I thought my point was clear...maybe it wasn't.

Football has a 77% white audience. 15% black and only 8% hispanic.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/...ular-season-tv-audience-by-race-or-ethnicity/

It has an audience that is overwhelmingly a. white, and b. American. White Americans are dwindling in number. Leagues of sports with international audiences like soccer and basketball are better equipped to deal with that.

I don't think immigrants from Asia, Latin American, and Africa that supplant white people a bit will just fill their shoes as consumers of football. There will be some drop off. Hispanics are the most rapidly growing group and they only make up 8% of football viewers now. It's not about dominant culture trumping anything because dominant culture is fluid by generation.

 

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Yeah, because I said only white Americans watch football.

I was talking about white Americans as a subgroup of white people. Of white people globally, only white Americans watch football.

Only White Americans watch football

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Only White Americans watch football

For one game per year?

How did NFL Europe do?

 

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So let's get this straight, because White Americans are slowly losing their majority here ( whites being 72% of the population, non- hispanic whites being about 65%) Football is going to die.

White Americans will be the majority population here til 2050 and beyond

what's next, We are gonna start using the Metric system?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

So let's get this straight, because White Americans are slowly losing their majority here ( whites being 72% of the population, non- hispanic whites being about 65%) Football is going to die.

White Americans will be the majority population here til 2050 and beyond

what's next, We are gonna start using the Metric system?

When did I say football was going to die?