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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:31:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By simple06: Naw, I think it's good. About 4 years ago I wondered a bit. About 75% of my friends were done with it. Today..100% are back like nothing happened.  |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:34:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNC: You monster, that's just cruel  Turbo | Full Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX There is actually a pretty good documentary about this. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:35:42 AM EDT
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im not totally against sportsball, i just prefer motorsports more.
i dont get the whole "my team, my player, my fantasy" stuff. some people just get way way way too into it and dont shut up about it. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:35:52 AM EDT
[Last Edit: FG24U]
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Quote HistoryCan you please explain what YOU are doing to “revolt” in the time you’re not watching “sportsball”? |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:38:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whiskerz: Easier solution is to stop using government money for stadiums. Now you are talking. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:41:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OUSooner: lol college and pro sports are doing better than ever. Horrible take. Now college football does need to do something about the transfer portal and NIL. Bad idea. NIL and the portal are removing the illusion of the student athlete. College football at the highest level is the Saturday pro league. The kids are at the schools to play football and basketball. The education is FAR down the list for many of the “student athletes”. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:44:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macman37: This. Cheerleaders don’t hang around with the trenchcoat mafia, they like gigachads. And all these years later it still hurts a little so it comes out when sPoRtSbAlL threads show up online. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macman37: Originally Posted By rob78: More people watching than ever before OP. The draft crowd was massive. It's entertainment. When I see "sportsball" in GD, you know it'll be a dogpile of overweight, unathletic men, looking to pat each other on the back for being such rebels. This. Cheerleaders don’t hang around with the trenchcoat mafia, they like gigachads. And all these years later it still hurts a little so it comes out when sPoRtSbAlL threads show up online. But I have a really classy fedora and hold doors open for the ladies. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:45:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HourOfAngle: Until recently I attended a number of college baseball games including the college world series. I enjoy it. The school I watch most of the games has won a number of national championships and the players at most get a 1/2 scholarship. Some walk ons. Their former coach that won a number of them became the AD for a while. He often would say "you see the football team doing this and that, I see the entire athletic department budget going up and down the field". My doctor held the SEC conference record for home runs in a season for 20 years. Not all players are destined to be a felon. I know an architect that graduated with a degree in architecture in 4 years who was also a starting football player each of those years at Texas A&M. It can be done. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:48:38 AM EDT
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Another "sportsball" nerd thread. The most popular team sports in the US are bigger than they ever have been.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:49:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNC: OMG that suggests a whole new venue: horse racing. We'll have the same NHRA-style horse classes. Top fuel will be the biggest, gnarliest horses raised on steroids and pumped full of meth just before the race. I personally cant wait for the dog fighting version. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 7:50:26 AM EDT
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#ZFG - too late
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:25:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runcible: Cite evidence please... or do you just believe that because you don't watch it, no one else does? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runcible: Originally Posted By TNC: There's no denying sportsball is dying. We found a denier |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:32:28 AM EDT
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lol sportsball.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:32:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tveddy: I personally cant wait for the dog fighting version. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tveddy: Originally Posted By TNC: OMG that suggests a whole new venue: horse racing. We'll have the same NHRA-style horse classes. Top fuel will be the biggest, gnarliest horses raised on steroids and pumped full of meth just before the race. I personally cant wait for the dog fighting version. Little known fact: the cold war was decided by a dog fight. That's right, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to wager the whole shootin match on a single contest. They went off to their respective dog experts and came back 2 years later with the pick of the litter. The Sov's showed up with a massive hound that had been bred from the finest stock, fed on pure hate and steroids, and trained daily to kill. It was a majestic sight. The Americans brought a short legged brown thing with patchy fur, it could barely drag itself across the arena. Everyone laughed at the pitiful showing The day of the fight came, they turned the dogs loose in the arena. The Sov dog charged in, the American dog snatched it up in its mouth and bit it in half. Game over. We won the cold war. Footnote to history: at the after-game party, the CIA project manager was overheard saying "Yeah, we just painted a crocodile brown and glued some fur on it" |
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UT, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:35:10 AM EDT
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How about in football (American), players wear bulletproof vests and running backs carry a 9, and shoot the defense on the way to the end zone, like in the movie Last Boy Scout? /s
Sports aren't dying. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:43:56 AM EDT
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Incorrect. GD and it's hate of sports does not represent the majority of the country. NFL viewership this past year was at it's highest since 2015. NBA playoffs are averaging 3.5MM viewers. NHL playoff viewership is up as well, averaging 2.62MM viewers. Baseball is the one pro sport that is struggling. Pro sports aren't going anywhere.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:44:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bubbatheredneck: But I don't want to revive it. This. Let it die. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 8:47:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: TxRabbitBane]
[#18]
NFL revenue has been monotonically increasing for 20 years. EPL revenue is almost always positive, YOY for that period. Likewise MLB (until Covid, now mostly recovered). NHL? Nope, healthy and doing well.
“Sportsball” people are sad (and delusional). Sorry the jocks got the pretty girls and you didn’t… |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:02:07 AM EDT
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Does it start by not calling it sportsball anymore in attempt to sound cool?
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:08:24 AM EDT
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Random ramp popping up on a Nacar track would be fun.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:13:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whiskerz: Easier solution is to stop using government money for stadiums. This right here. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:18:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Spasm: Does it start by not calling it sportsball anymore in attempt to sound cool? Branding is important. We have football which is uniquely American and we've imported soccer from communists, who call it futbol. Imagine going out expecting to see superbowl hopefuls only to find you've been suckered into watching anorexic marathoners run around a field ineffectively for hours. Naming is going to take some serious thought. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:21:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Twisted10: im not totally against sportsball, i just prefer motorsports more. i dont get the whole "my team, my player, my fantasy" stuff. some people just get way way way too into it and dont shut up about it. Fair enough. You have to admit, though, the "my team" stuff is because of the general competition amongst the participants leading to fierce rivalries. In motorsports, there's just Ford and a few overseas go-kart builders, making it harder to manufacture brand identity in the auto industry. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:23:04 AM EDT
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Sportsball is thriving, especially with the legalization of sports gambling.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:23:53 AM EDT
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You know that scene in The Last Boy Scout where gamblers threaten the player, so he runs down the football field shooting everyone who gets in the way?
Did that touchdown count? |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:24:46 AM EDT
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Does it make you nerds feel edgy and cool to call it sportsball?
When you call it that you just identify yourself as a member of the chess club. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:25:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FG24U: Can you please explain what YOU are doing to “revolt” in the time you’re not watching “sportsball”? Explain? There's not a chance in hell I'll engage in that discussion on this forum. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:25:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whiskerz: Easier solution is to stop using government money for stadiums. YES! Raise ticket prices by $10 each. Build new stadium within 5 years. All funded by the interested public. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:28:10 AM EDT
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Was at the Cardinals vs Mets game on Monday night in StL. 31,000+ in attendance between 2 teams near the bottom of their divisions, on a Monday in early May.
Pro sports isn’t failing. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:28:10 AM EDT
[#30]
Still waiting for them to live by the DEI rules everyone else has to.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:39:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:45:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Twisted10: im not totally against sportsball, i just prefer motorsports more. i dont get the whole "my team, my player, my fantasy" stuff. some people just get way way way too into it and dont shut up about it. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:46:30 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By TNC: There's no denying sportsball is dying. Nobody wants to watch 400 lb linemen in tights and pads FNFL 
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:48:02 AM EDT
[#34]
make both basketballs and footballs into cubes.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:53:49 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Windustsearch]
[#35]
It'd be more entertaining to make all the fat fans trying to masquerade as Chads with cheerleaders play it.
 Someone made made fun of my ball game. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:56:14 AM EDT
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Failing?
OP is delusional. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:56:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GreyGhost: Does it make you nerds feel edgy and cool to call it sportsball? When you call it that you just identify yourself as a member of the chess club. Jokes on you. While you watched sportsball he studied the blade. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:57:27 AM EDT
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I dont know if hockey counts as a sport played with a ball, and as much as I hate Bettman, hockey has been doing well (lets see what happens in Utah).
As has been stated above betting probably will always keep it alive. I dont watch much sports outside of hockey, but hockey is filled with betting app commercials, odds, etc. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 9:59:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GreyGhost: Does it make you nerds feel edgy and cool to call it sportsball? When you call it that you just identify yourself as a member of the chess club. We're going to have to address the chess problem. It's more boring to watch than golf. We'll make it a full contact sport, kind of like that Star Wars animated thing, with live players battling it out for control of the squares. Sort of like MMA but with strategy. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:00:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AbleArcher: But I have a really classy fedora and hold doors open for the ladies. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AbleArcher: Originally Posted By macman37: Originally Posted By rob78: More people watching than ever before OP. The draft crowd was massive. It's entertainment. When I see "sportsball" in GD, you know it'll be a dogpile of overweight, unathletic men, looking to pat each other on the back for being such rebels. This. Cheerleaders don’t hang around with the trenchcoat mafia, they like gigachads. And all these years later it still hurts a little so it comes out when sPoRtSbAlL threads show up online. But I have a really classy fedora and hold doors open for the ladies. IT’S A TRILBY SIR |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:00:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Star_Scream: Failing? OP is delusional. Apparently he's revolting, too |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:00:59 AM EDT
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You could kill it completely by naming it the NSL.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:46:05 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By TNC: There's no denying sportsball is dying. Nobody wants to watch 400 lb linemen in tights and pads slam ineffectively into each other like some kind of nerf clad sumos. Or overpaid 8 foot tall thugs loaf up and down a court halfheartedly dribbling a ball. So with all major sports having almost continuous revenue growth for the last 20 years, how exactly is “sportsball” dying? @TNC |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:46:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Grendel-OK: What about naked cheerleaders? Can we get naked cheerleaders too?  Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Grendel-OK: Originally Posted By TNC: I'm listening. We might draft you as a commissioner. What about naked cheerleaders? Can we get naked cheerleaders too? I'll allow it. If we're going full bread and circuses, we might as well. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:49:28 PM EDT
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lol. Football isn't even close to dying.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:52:02 PM EDT
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Football has record viewership.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:53:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TxRabbitBane: NFL revenue has been monotonically increasing for 20 years. EPL revenue is almost always positive, YOY for that period. Likewise MLB (until Covid, now mostly recovered). NHL? Nope, healthy and doing well. “Sportsball” people are sad (and delusional). Sorry the jocks got the pretty girls and you didn’t… Didn't you read the OP? It is obvious that professional sports are failing, and such a statement doesn't need pesky facts and numbers. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:56:09 PM EDT
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declining? I'm not sure about the other sports but the NFL is growing.
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NH, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:56:49 PM EDT
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I say go Gladiator like. For baseball expand the bases 30 feet. Allow aluminum bats, steroids, and smaller ball. For football add some kind of blunt weapons into the mix. Basketball move that hoop up two feet and allow checking. You get the idea.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:58:36 PM EDT
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fuck all that... I wanna see gladiator battles with pedo's. if it was monetized, you could solve world peace.
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