Chuck Klosterman

And then the third one is football, which is unlike the other two in the sense that it is like the second version where there's lots of stoppage of play and there's lots of consideration of what could happen, what happened earlier, all of these things.

But in the moments of action, it is so hyper-kinetic.

That it feels as though you're watching something very intense and that's moving fast.

It doesn't feel slow in the way some of the other cognitive sports do.

And football is unique in this.

Like football takes the best qualities from these two kinds of sports and makes it into one sport.

And again, this was completely accidental.

No one planned this.

Like nobody thought to themselves that, you know, the way football operates will be ideal for this television medium.

And it clearly is.

I mean, and even if someone wants to argue with me, if someone wants to say like, oh, there's many things that are actually better on TV or whatever, it's like the evidence sure suggests the opposite.

The evidence suggests that people would rather watch football than anything.

Like, you know, it's like in 2024, the numbers were a little bit changed because it was an election year.

But people still watch the Super Bowl more than they watch the election results.

I mean, there's no comparison to this in other countries, right?

You know, soccer is the sport of Europe.

In many countries, it's almost like their combination of football, basketball and baseball and hockey altogether.

And yet we would never see in Europe

You know, in Norway, that 93 of the 100 most watched events were a sport.

I mean, people in Japan love baseball.