What is the future of football?

[The Gipper]

@texasag1969 said:

Now golf is a real pussified game. The object is to put it in the hole with a long stick right?

And they set up all kinds of barriers to keep you from doing that. Yep that there is some game!

It is not a physical/contact/collision sport....but I don't know about pussified.   It takes tremendous skill.

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]

[mjp28]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Remember Jarts?  They looked like large darts that you threw at a circle in the lawn?  I wonder how many kids got impaled before the banned them?  Used to have a set in my parents yard.

LAWN DARTS! Now those suckers were fun......might have to move them up to #3 or 4 on the mjp list.

[mjp28]

@the-gipper said:

It is not a physical/contact/collision sport....but I don't know about pussified.   It takes tremendous skill.

Pool is fun, so is the World Poker Tour. 

Golf was fun during the Arnie, Jack, Chi-chi era for me.

Actually some games are just more fun to do than watch......like sock-her. "Professional flopping". 

[Orion]

Lawn Jarts.  Did anybody EVER think that was a good idea?  Even as a little kid I thought there was something wrong with that game.

[The Gipper]

@orion said:

Lawn Jarts.  Did anybody EVER think that was a good idea?  Even as a little kid I thought there was something wrong with that game.

It was an OK idea.  We had them.  You just had to be smart enough to stay out of the way.  Some  Kids were too stupid to do so. 

[Tour2ma]

Hey... the world needs javelin catchers, too...

[mjp28]

@orion said:

Lawn Jarts.  Did anybody EVER think that was a good idea?  Even as a little kid I thought there was something wrong with that game.

The trick was to keep them really sharp so they stick real good!  

[Orion]

@the-gipper said:

It was an OK idea.  We had them.  You just had to be smart enough to stay out of the way.  Some  Kids were too stupid to do so. 

...and some kids threw them really lousily.  My neighbor had them.  We played them as kids...and even as a kid the back of my mind knew that that game wasn't really a good idea.

But we digress.  

I think today the NFL installed a targeting rule such that a player can be tossed from the game for targeting with his helmet.

[Tour2ma]

@orion said:

...and some kids threw them really lousily. 

Was always fun to see how far you could bury the nose of a Jart* in the lawn... either by throwing it up or down..

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* Why "Jart"? They were lawn darts so why not "Lart"? Did J stand for jugular?

[DieHardBrownsFan]

New 'Jarts' non lethal type:

https://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/lawn-darts-85574.aspx?tall=N&src=GPSHPMN&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-uzVBRDkARIsALkZAdmetVyI3uMfXBMgud4cd14ZkD5BWSwBVzVdMJKcEPg9pMT2gkxXkYUaAixdEALw_wcB

[Orion]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

New 'Jarts' non lethal type:

  So now they knock ya unconscious.  

[gumby73]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Remember Jarts?

If ya ever spear that loop in half with a Jart? Don't let your sister beat ya with it like a belt for ruining the game...MoM, I didn't do it on purpose!!(really?,double your pleasure, double your fun)

[jrb12711]

Just my .02 cents given I'm a "younger" man on the board.

While football is on the decline, any talk of it being out on the outs in highly exaggerated. It's still by wide margin the preferred sport of my generation (who will soon have the buying power) and still the favorite of the generation after me. Sure, it may not be the absolute dominant sport it used to be, but I don't think we're even 20 years away from seeing any seismic shift in preferences. One thing that's really important to note is that many folks in my generation aren't watching on traditional TV either. This does a good job discussing that: http://deadline.com/2018/02/super-bowl-ratings-eagles-patriots-this-is-us-nbc-1202278181/. So when it's stated that viewership went down, they are talking in terms of traditional TV's. That's a really flawed metric to use.

To the point of safety, I think you gotta realize by in large fans don't care. I can't put my finger on a study I read recently but it was something like 80+% of people noted that the new data on CTE, injuries etc had NO impact on them watching football. Hell, if I'm being really honest I can't say it does for me. I'm definitely down to support safety measures, but it's not as though I feel "bad" for the guys either. I certainly don't wish evil on people but you gotta know bad things are gonna happen to your head mashing it against people for 20+ years. 

Point is, I think we're decades (at minimum) before we see anything else than football dominating the landscape of american sports. It's gotta be realized that my generation (and beyond) are cutting the cord but still want football, which means not having stupid directv dominant the online sphere. 

[mjp28]

@tour2ma said:

Was always fun to see how far you could bury the nose of a Jart* in the lawn... either by throwing it up or down..

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* Why "Jart"? They were lawn darts so why not "Lart"? Did J stand for jugular?

Hey we boomer kids were tough.....not like these weenie Millenials and their video games. 

Besides I kind of liked Lawn Darts, sounds less lethal than let's say  Lethal Weapon 4. 

[domcucch1994]

Two hand touch is the future of football bitche$!!

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@mjp28 said:

Hey we boomer kids were tough.....not like these weenie Millenials and their video games. 

Besides I kind of liked Lawn Darts, sounds less lethal than let's say  Lethal Weapon 4. 

This was our only game, usually played in the lobby of a Spartans, Uncle Bills or other department store.  

[mjp28]

@domcucch1994 said:

Two hand touch is the future of football bitche$!!

What and only the women will play tackle football? 

[domcucch1994]

@mjp28 said:

What and only the women will play tackle football? 

I can get behind this..