I was having a conversation with a coworker a little while ago about football & it's future. He believes-and I tend to concur-that football has already hit it's peak & that twenty years from now, it won't be the behemoth that it is now. It might even become a niche sport, popular in certain regions (CA, TX, the South), but not nationwide.
What do you think? Where does football stand/look like in 2038?
For me personally, the CTE issue is huge. While I still love watching the Giants & football in general, I feel somewhat guilty watching guys try to kill each other & knowing that some of these guys won't even remember their names ten years after they call it quits.
Especially with the advent of really good mainstream VR which will certainly become a mainstay in entertainment within 5-10 years.
Especially with the advent of really good mainstream VR which will certainly become a mainstay in entertainment within 5-10 years.
And I would suggest that the numbers who "don't watch much sports" is significantly smaller than those who are either interested in both alternatives or are exclusively NFL/College football fans. And not everyone who is over 30 will have died in 20 years. The relative interests will likely be different than it is today, but it will take well over 20 years for the lines to cross.
I'm 37 and I grew up a nerd and played lots of video games. Typically people 35 and older, when they were in their teens or twenties playing video games was still a "kid thing" and something you would never mention to chicks. These days? It's very much part of every day accepted culture.
I'm 37 and I grew up a nerd and played lots of video games. Typically people 35 and older, when they were in their teens or twenties playing video games was still a "kid thing" and something you would never mention to chicks. These days? It's very much part of every day accepted culture.
Well football (the American version) is only king in the US and possibly Canada, so we're not talking about global audiences.