think a lot of that is having kids later and having only 1.
You are right about kids and participation trophies. My daughters always threw them to the back of the closet and never displayed as they were meaningless.
Their gym teachers have to start to lighten up on them.Interesting article about young people behind millennials actually "hating" sports (as opposed to just not being interested). The article goes in depth on the cultural contours, as well as why gambling is being used to pull young people in. It also goes into things like what baseball is doing to gain fans and how progress is going.
Why Do So Many Young Americans Hate Sports?
Market data paints a grim picture for the future of pro sports. In league offices around the country, the campaign to secure it is well underway.
"A new study reveals that just 23 percent of Generation Z — people born between 1992 and 2007, as the study defines the age group — consider themselves “avid” sports fans. That’s 19 percent lower than the Millennial mark of 42 percent. Roughly a third of Gen Xers and Baby Boomers, meanwhile, identify as “avid” sports fans, about 10 points higher than members of Gen Z. Perhaps more tellingly, Gen Z folks say they “actively dislike” sports at a 27-percent clip. The correspondent rates for Millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers rate hovered between 5 and 7 percent.
This is not the first time data collectors have concluded that Gen Z is just not that into sports. In November 2020, Rich Luker, a social psychologist who founded his own sports polling organization, told the Washington Post that he’s observed sports fandom drop among young people for the past decade and a half, and has warned major sports leagues that a reckoning is on the horizon. "
Why Do So Many Young Americans Hate Sports?
Market data paints a grim picture for the future of pro sports. In league offices around the country, the campaign to secure it is well underway.www.insidehook.com
You think some 13-year old kid cares about politics? And even if he or she does, it's a safe assumption the "politics" in sports you guys are talking about largely refers to the public support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which doesn't get young people bent out of shape like it does to old people, and if it does, then I guess the common hand-wringing about liberal schools brainwashing kids can be easily dismissed, so one argument or the other is a swing and a miss. I worked in youth sports for 10 years, you're telling me I'm clueless about youth sports?
I feel like you’ve never been to an NFL game if you think fat people don’t watch sports.
Our own fanbase isn't the most svelte either.
So... in conclusion... it's the fault of the same generation of folks who are doing the complaining in this thread. They complain about ppl not taking personal responsibility, but here they are blaming everything but their own parenting. Lovely crowd we have here.
I wouldn’t say it’s any one generation’s fault. There’s a lot of factors that go into it imo. Yes over-involved parents is a factor, but parents being a lot more open to their kids trying other things is just as much a factor too.
You're way over the top in content as well as in tone. The youngest Boomer on this site is 67 years old. (The baby boom stops in 1964); they don't have any minor children. Few of their parents thought the Beatles were dreadful (they were, after all, much more acceptable than the other rock music of the era) at least until they became apparent advocates of drugs in their songs, which took a few years. And no one thought that the record player (which was around when our parents were growing up, and they danced to LP records just like we did) was the tool of the devil. Cool down.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but if the end of the baby boom was 1964, wouldn't that mean the youngest boomer is 57, not 67?
I really don't think the vast majority of school age kids give a crap about politics. They might form opinions on certain issues, like everybody else. But they do so based on the issue, not on anybody's lame party politics and ideologies. Which makes them a hell of lot wiser than their parents and teachers and other adults who allowed themselves to be brainwashed into becoming obsessed about politics.
I've been around a ton of kids from middle school to college age. None of them really seemed to GAF about politics. Issues yes. Politics no.
Sorry! Sometimes my arithmetic isn't so good! I thought at first you were making a reference to the actual numbr, which itself has significance. Still, my point stands. There are probably a few baby-boomers who still have minor kids, but not many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)
This is at least the third post of his on this. If he's trying to be funny, he's doing a really lousy job.
It’s a reference to a classic scene in “Animal House” that appears frequently on this forum…
Not too many of us gamble, but those of us who do from time to time are big sports fans who watch a bunch of different leagues and levels
I think he was trying to make a point more than be funny. He did it with comic irony, but that was the teasing bit.
