Chuck Klosterman

It would never be a situation where 93 of the 100 most watched Japanese broadcasts are baseball.

Like this is like America is different in a lot of ways.

This is one of them, you know.

That was always McEnroe's things like make him go back to wood rackets.

Although this is a, this is another thing that sort of complicates this conversation.

I mean, could tennis find a way to become more popular in the way that baseball found a way to make some real changes and become... I mean, baseball is a better experience now on TV.

The last World Series is evidence, you know?

Yeah.

But yet something like, you know, tennis or track or any of these things, like...

they don't really need to be this thing that 80 million people care about.

Like they can be their own thing and then kind of evolve in their own way.

But now football can't do that anymore.

Football can only get bigger.

The NFL can only expand and that's what makes it fragile.

That's why like, you know, at the end of this book, I talked about this idea of how, you know, football can kind of collapse.

Right now, that seems insane.

Right now, it seems more likely that football would swallow up every other sport.

And that's all we would have.

But nothing works that way.

People change.