Chuck Klosterman

And I feel as though the future is not designed for football to dominate the way the past was.

Absolutely.

And we would have wanted it.

We would have wanted what was described, even though I don't know if necessarily the way it's working out is better for the consumer.

But just to go back to something you said earlier, you know, it is an interesting thing.

Like football was more popular than baseball in the 70s.

It already had passed it, but we didn't think of it that way.

We still looked at baseball as sort of, you know, the American pastime and football was this other thing.

Well, but here's the deal.

That seems like a positive.

But it is a problem for any sport focused in that way around people.

See, football has real advantage of many things.

But one of the real advantages it has is that, you know, the players are almost faceless.

You know, we're always watching this clash of colors on the field.

The uniforms are, it's a warlike kind of simulation where,

The 20 most popular players in the NBA now are more famous than the 20 most popular non-quarterbacks in the NFL, for sure.

They're more recognizable than that.

And that seems like a benefit, right?

If you're the NBA, you're like, this is great.

We have all these personalities.