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Originally Posted by thaskalos
You can't be serious. ALL of us were around during the 70s and the 80s...and we have experienced all this first-hand. FOOTBALL..."LESS POPULAR"? You've lost your mind. Haven't you noticed that football has become a RELIGION, in this country? The NFL is now a year-round affair, for heaven's sake.
You are trying to compare the audience of yesteryear, when we only had one game to watch on a Sunday...to the audience of TODAY...when every single game is available for our viewing pleasure?
If you go out on the street and tell people that football is "less popular" now than it was in the 70s...they'll lock you UP!
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In the 1970's, there were 3 games on Sunday and one on Monday.
Now there is 1 on Thursday, 4 on Sunday, and one on Monday.
And I think it's silly to assume that all those games are drawing different audiences. The audiences are all drawn from the same group of football fans.
As for ReplayRandall's point-- the audiences for those media properties are a rounding error compared to broadcast television. Broadcast television slaughters everyone.
