When Bigtime Football Ends

It will soon enough.  You can see the parents of little boys, the guys who played since they were in pee wee tackle, not letting their own sons play.  (Those are the smart parents, btw.)  Where do you think all the interest in soccer and lacrosse is coming from for boys under 10?  Those competitive fathers and mothers are looking elsewhere because the science is running down tackle football 30 yards short of the end zone.  David Macaray delivers a mini history lesson of the time that national college football powerhouse dropped its program because football and colleges were not a good fit.  That was a few years ago, and there's not a chance in heck that any bigtime football school would have the balls or the brains to do the same in 2013.  I don't think that'll  matter irregardless (sic) because football will continue to lose kids from the earliest ages, and at some point the magic and the economic power will be gone forever.  Certainly colleges will be better for it, along with people and soccer and lacrosse and the physics club.