how did the NFL become so superior to the other US sports?
>most watched
>most talked about
>best production
>best draft
it used to be the 3rd or even 4th most popular sport, now it's so clearly #1 baseball, basketball, and hockey are fighting for #2. Now even college football is more popular than other sports.

it has been the most popular since the super bowls started mate. football as a whole has been popular since the late 1800s, schools like michigan have been playing that sport for nearly 150 years

Good question it happened with Brady riggi

NFL films were really big in it picking up steam in the 70s and it was seen as a "man's game"

>>149455114
it was popular, but still among the other sports and it and baseball were still in the same league. the NFL really soared in the 2000s to the point where it's not even close anymore.

>>149455207
Only since 2010 has it been over and above the other 3 major leagues. It used to be something only coalminers and rednecks watched now every demographic does.

>>149455207
in the 21st century it's at a completely different level. they've been innovating the way they market and show the NFL and it still seems the other sports are so far behind.
Just compare the drafts of the 4 sports. The NFL draft is so much better.

white people started dying off

>>149455035 (OP)
I don't know but football fucking sucks.

>>149455035 (OP)

It's only real competitor was baseball but with the constant player strikes it fell out of favor at the turn of the century and with people attention span nowadays there's no going back

>>149455360
you suck

>>149455035 (OP)
Salary cap
Weak players union
Culture of team over player

>>149455035 (OP)
>hockey
>us sport

>>149460373
Lord Stanley is a legal American hes been here for almost 40 years now. I wonder how Canada feels about that participation trophy the 4 nations cup lol. Imagine losing a trophy TO A STATE WHICH SEES no snow, not only Panthers but Tampa Bay too, also the sheer fact Dallas|again, no snow has won it before Canada has touched it last and a literal desert in Vegas

>>149455035 (OP)
Handegg is the perfect sport for the American cattle
>Turn taking makes it easy to follow
>Astronaut costumes satisfies propensity to consoom
>Giga Niggers are nostalgia bait for growing up on capeshit literature
>Brief playing time is handled well by the child-like mind of the American
>Rigidly scripted moves is absorbed well for a people who don't get nuance
>Dangerous style of play is perfect excuse for sedentary overweight muttoid

>>149461940
>todays draft

>>149462640
why did you make the same point 3 times?

>>149455035 (OP)
As America became an empire it needed to push war culture more so NFL came to prominence
Note how peaceful baseball is, from a time when America was an isolationist power wanting to be left alone to enjoy life

>>149463006
And NFL films was key to that you guys remember the old NFL films? Every game was presented as a battle between two armies which is what tackle football actually is

>>149462673
This Kenya flag has been tearing through the place lately he's huffing khat

NFL teams have been better than other leagues at getting local and state governments to subsidize their stadiums. That gave the teams more money to develop the product on the field, which in turn increased fandom, making the media rights insanely valuable.

national tv deal unlike other leagues that have 1000+ games so they cant all be broadcast, higher production values
games on during daytime during weekends so bigger potential audience
revenue sharing of the tv deal and a salary cap so smaller market teams can be competitive
most important games are december/january, people are going to be inside and watch tv anyways
constant breaks so casuals can understand what just happened

>>149455035 (OP)
Rigged league to prop up Dynasties as more marketable is why i like NFL

Handegg really took off when the TV became commonplace in America and the radio started dying out. Baseball is a chore to watch if you aren't in the stadium, but it's perfect for radio. Hockey is bad for radio and TV, just too hard for the average person to follow. Basketball also got a lot of benefit from TV but the NBA being such a shitshow until the late 70s meant it lagged behind football, which was pretty structurally sound by then. So tl;dr TV did it and no other sport was able to take advantage of TV.

Football had already evolved into a perfect organism to rake in revenue for TV long before its invention or anyone knowing better. Most of the commercials simply take advantage of the natural stoppages that were always there.

Because you are dumb cattle
Watch your commercials, goy

>>149455233
Because of the Patriots dynasty. People like a champion and every season was about the Patriots and who could challenge them.
At the same time period the Yankees dropped off, the nba became about the players not the teams, and hockey has no dynastic champions

>>149455035 (OP)
Handegg should be banned.

>>149467820
communist lies that seek to undermine a nation

>>149455035 (OP)
the limited schedule and parity between teams makes every week feel consequential.

>>149455035 (OP)
The switch from analog to digital did wonders for the NFL by moving the camera frame back allowing you to few more of the action. I didn't do anything to sports like baseball where all the action fit into analog perfectly fine before.