WHAT WOULD THE END OF FOOTBALL LOOK LIKE?

Before you say that football is far too big to ever disappear, consider the history: If you look at the stocks in the Fortune 500 from 1983, for example, 40 percent of those companies no longer exist. The original version of Napster no longer exists, largely because of lawsuits. No matter how well a business matches economic conditions at one point in time, it’s not a lock to be a leader in the future, and that is true for the NFL too. Sports are not immune to these pressures. In the first half of the 20th century, the three big sports were baseball, boxing, and horse racing, and today only one of those is still a marquee attraction.

I’m not sure if this presages the End of Football or the End of Days, but at Breitbart TV, video from the Dallas Morning News of a 55-year-old grandmother auditioning to be a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. She’s a physical fitness guru and in excellent shape, but if she makes the squad, what would Tom Landry have said about a football team whose oldest cheerleader is nine years older than its head coach?