1) My middle school kid is in cross country... all "school athletes" must attend district wide concussion class (they probably blew it off, after all it is CC not tackle football) and parents have to sign off that they've been given access to various concussion resources. Nobody found this overly unusual or interesting, its just part of athletics now. Soon it'll just be part of school athletics that football means touch not tackle or it means what we used to call soccer.
(For foreign readers cross country is hiking in the woods except you don't wear a pack and you run. So mile times are quite a bit lower than track and you're about a thousand times more likely to get heat exhaustion or twist your ankle than to get a concussion in that particular sport)
2) Look at average age of baseball fans, late 50s and that average has been going up more than one year per calendar year. There are generational trends and football may very well be a WW2/Boomer generation sport. Once "their" generations are gone, that's it.
Looking at demographics of the local pro basketball team I think we're more likely to see pro basketball go away before football ... volleyball is very popular and telegenic.
1) My middle school kid is in cross country... all "school athletes" must attend district wide concussion class (they probably blew it off, after all it is CC not tackle football) and parents have to sign off that they've been given access to various concussion resources. Nobody found this overly unusual or interesting, its just part of athletics now. Soon it'll just be part of school athletics that football means touch not tackle or it means what we used to call soccer.
(For foreign readers cross country is hiking in the woods except you don't wear a pack and you run. So mile times are quite a bit lower than track and you're about a thousand times more likely to get heat exhaustion or twist your ankle than to get a concussion in that particular sport)
2) Look at average age of baseball fans, late 50s and that average has been going up more than one year per calendar year. There are generational trends and football may very well be a WW2/Boomer generation sport. Once "their" generations are gone, that's it.
Looking at demographics of the local pro basketball team I think we're more likely to see pro basketball go away before football ... volleyball is very popular and telegenic.