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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1077502, member: 628"] You bet. Think about football... It's ratings are at all time highs as we speak, while fewer kids have been playing for quite some time now . Kids learn about sports in a myriad of different ways: parents, siblings, SportsCenter, video games, etc. I mean, my daughter's a gymnast. She LOVES competing. There are millions of girls who have participated in gymnastics over the years. And yet, aside from 4-5 days every 4 years, gymnastics is an afterthought in the sports world. Like I said, it's not a bad thing that more and more kids play soccer (although I'm fairly certain that soccer participation has fallen a bit in the past couple years). But MLS ratings aren't going to jump because a kid played soccer as a pre-teen. It'll need to be like the NBA in the 80s, they need *major* stars and compelling teams. [/QUOTE]