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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 5223138, member: 42034"]The Football case is better documented. Even before covid the NFL has had declining ticket audiences.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"But fans are now less inclined to go to games in person. Each league saw a decline in total attendance from 2008 to 2018. Fans are often unwilling to pay high ticket prices, and teams don’t seem to care, as an increasing amount and share of their revenue comes from lucrative TV contracts as opposed to ticket sales. But not all teams are losing fans at an equal rate. Some have seen average attendance declines of more than a third over the last decade."</i></p><p>-- from USA Today, July 15, 2019 {note the date: before covid}</p><p><br /></p><p>Sources attribute this to a variety of causes</p><p>1) higher ticket prices for satiums makes attendence lower.</p><p>2) players increasingly making political statements and those politics are always opposed to those held by the great majority of their fan base.</p><p>3) rise of alternative media: such as television and other online activities which capture the youth.</p><p>4) and then came the covid which apparently really affected already declining numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe as the games become less popular, less cards will be printed thereby making them rarer,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 5223138, member: 42034"]The Football case is better documented. Even before covid the NFL has had declining ticket audiences. [I]"But fans are now less inclined to go to games in person. Each league saw a decline in total attendance from 2008 to 2018. Fans are often unwilling to pay high ticket prices, and teams don’t seem to care, as an increasing amount and share of their revenue comes from lucrative TV contracts as opposed to ticket sales. But not all teams are losing fans at an equal rate. Some have seen average attendance declines of more than a third over the last decade."[/I] -- from USA Today, July 15, 2019 {note the date: before covid} Sources attribute this to a variety of causes 1) higher ticket prices for satiums makes attendence lower. 2) players increasingly making political statements and those politics are always opposed to those held by the great majority of their fan base. 3) rise of alternative media: such as television and other online activities which capture the youth. 4) and then came the covid which apparently really affected already declining numbers. Maybe as the games become less popular, less cards will be printed thereby making them rarer,[/QUOTE]
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