To refine the point: some fans with grump about certain things (“football’s gone soft”; “the players get paid too much for just playing a game”) but keep watching and spending. Other fan reactions impact the bottom line.
Unfortunately, I think player safety is low on the list of things that impact fans spending habits. I bet success on the field is much more important in delivering eyeballs and dollar signs than commitment to player safety.
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Maybe, but I know quite a few fans who have given up football because of CTE, and even more parents who simply do not let their kids play the sport as youths (and if you don't play it as a youth, you ain't goin' pro). I'm definitely solidly in that latter group, and for the pro game, I'm in the former. I follow Blue Devil football because it impacts the sports I really like, whether I'm happy about that or I'm not. I probably should stop doing that, but I won't right now because of timing.
I think one of the main reasons that the NFL is so much more popular than MLB, the NBA, and the NHL is that they only have 17 regular season games as compared to 162 for MLB, 82 for the NBA, and 82 for the NHL.
Hardly anybody gives a darn about the regular season games of those latter three sports, but when you only play 17 games, the importance of every game is magnified. Of course there are many other reasons why most people prefer the NFL, but the number of games is a big one.
If you made the baseball season 17 games long, my wife would be quite happy.
But she still wouldn’t watch on TV. She would still go to a few games in person, just like we did when we had a football team in town, but NFL football and NCAA basketball (well, just Duke) are basically the only sports she is at all interested in watching on TV.
To put this thread at least temporarily back on topic. From "5 things we loved from the Giants"
https://gmenhq.com/2022/10/02/ny-gia...aquon-barkley/5. Daniel Jones put on a show
We’re going to have to start calling him Danny Wheels instead of Danny Dimes. In the victory, Jones made big plays with his arm and legs. The highlight of his day no question had to be the two rushing touchdowns that he was able to record in the first half for New York.
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This was a needed performance from Jones. He’s always going to have haters calling him out for poor play, but he did little wrong on Sunday against the Bears. Despite the loss in Week 3, Jones also played well against the Dallas Cowboys. Now, he’s surely got confidence leading up to the Week 5 matchup with the Green Bay Packers.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
I’m with her about Duke Basketball. 95% of the regular season college basketball games I watch are Duke games. I attend 10-12 games in Cameron each season and watch the rest on tv. And I attend 2 or 3 UNC games in the Smith Center, but I never watch them on tv (other than the Duke games, of course).
But really that’s about it, until the ACC and NCAA Tournaments.
At the end of last season, the Giants declined the 5th year option on Daniel. It would have paid him $22.3 million.
When they declined the option, it meant one of three things would happen with DJ's contract:
1- At the end of the 2022-23 season, Daniel would become a free agent and be available to the highest bidder. New York would have no rights to him at all.
2- The Giants would negotiate some kind of extension before the end of the 2022-23 season, keeping Danny under contract. Hard to say what an extension would pay him but one would imagine the Giants would have to pay a premium to keep him from becoming a free agent.
3- The Giants could elect to put the franchise tag on Daniel, which would result in a 1-year contract at something close to $30 million.
It is anyone's guess what will happen. It is worth noting that Daniel's rookie contract was for $25.6 mil over 4 years.
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