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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 31, 2026

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most popular sport would end sometime within the next fifty years, and nobody would notice or care.

I think most of our sports will eventually go that way. Football has the disadvantage of being expensive to play, expensive to attend, and thus really only works as a TV show. Add in that there are more commercials than playing time and that really nothing much matters between the 35-40 yard lines of the respective teams, and you have a problem.

Baseball will probably go first, as much as I like the sport. The games are too long for TV and Internet, especially when you have innings of play where nobody does anything. When you need to put a guy on base to shorten the game in extra innings, you have a problem, namely that your game is long enough and boring enough that overtime is a problem for you.