[SumItUp]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013 ... ft-the-nfl

With all that college beef on parade this week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry.

But there's something football fans should know:

Football is dead in America.

Even through all the chatter and cheerleading and media hype, football as an American cultural institution lies in final spasm. It's as dead as the Marlboro Man.

The NFL desperately needs American parents. Not as fans, but as suppliers of young flesh.

The NFL needs parents to send their little boys into the football feeder system. And without that supply of meat for the NFL grinder — first youth teams, then high school and college — there can be no professional football.

And yet every day, more American parents decide they're finished with football. Why? Because parents can no longer avoid the fact that football scrambles the human brain.

Hype, truth or will the game evolve and continue to dominate the American sports landscape?

[Purple Haize]

Ask a Bookie if Football is dead

[lynchburgwildcats]

As long as there are people who think athletics is their only way out of poverty, there will always be NFL players.

And sadly those poverty stricken parents seem to produce more children than they economically should be producing, too. That's just my observation when I go to Walmart right around when the welfare checks come in though, so maybe I am wrong.

[RubberMallet]

youth football is not a feeder system for college football. high school coaches recruit players from all the sports at a school.

plus sorry. we are talking about white america pulling their kids out of pop warner.

[NotAJerry]

I could see a point where football becomes the next horse racing or boxing, if they don't figure out the concussion issues soon, but it will never be dead.