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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 1088967, member: 204"]
Fantasy football is only one form of gambling.
 
There are office pools, local parlays, sports book betting and many other forms.
 
I really don't know the stats - as you have noted - but it seems to me that on a typical Sunday less than 20 million people watch an Eagles game on TV.
 
And, by the way, the move to TV is really what I'm talking about.
 
Fewer fans want to watch NFL football in person.
 
The game experience is just not all that enjoyable.
 
And that's a problem.
 
Football is great. I love it. That's why I'm on this board everyday.
 
But the games [B]are[/B] becoming too long. There[B] are[/B] too many penalties and too many subjective rules and the officials [B]do[/B] have too much control over outcomes. 
 
Indeed, I think this post was prompted by the news that an additional official will be used for ACC games and I believe the post that followed the OP complained about too many penalties being called during games.
 
I didn't just pull this out of thin air.
 
The fact is that mass public taste changes. At one time Jerry Lewis was as big as the Beatles. And at one time horse racing was this country's favorite spectator sport. And boxing dominated TV.
 
The defects in a product sometimes take awhile to impact sales or popularity.   
 
Time will tell.
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