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In my lifetime I've seen football go from a minor sport to the top one. I agree with the writer that the NFL is in decline but it is far from dead. For example college football is as popular as ever. My alma mater even after a three win season isn't having any problems selling out the stadium this fall.

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football has always seemed like an outlier to me, in the sense that the overwhelming majority of adults I know watch and enjoy it but I know almost no one who played an organized version of it. Anecdotally, this doesn't seem to work the same way as other sports. It really is a sport made for television and gambling, which will probably continue to drive it for a very long time.

As an anecdote, the only sport made for gambling is horse racing.

Ever seen greyhound racing?

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