If you want to get in shape and also appreciate the ground aspect of mixed martial arts you should go do a month at a jiu jitsu place. A part of me loves watching the ground battles just because I see how good the guys are. It's boring as shit at times because everyone is so good nowadays that you can't pull off anything that surprises anyone but learning the small intricacies of the ground game will make it more entertaining.
Good call. I still love baseball and have played it a large part of my life but watching a game nowadays simply doesn't stack up to the other popular sports in entertainment value. Game is too slow. Gotta put a limit on time between pitches or something. MLB taking 4 hours won't ever last with fans.
This is the best answer, IMO. In the 60's- 70's, and probably before, Roller Derby was big. Drew sellout crowds at MSG and elsewhere on a consistent basis. Was really big in SF with the Bay Area Bombers. Their stars were pretty well known outside the genre. The Bald Eagle, Charlie O'Connell was a big national name. It was plentiful on TV on the weekends. It spawned a rival League, Roller Games. It was probably on a par with Pro Wrestling at the time. I remember in High School we talked Roller Derby/Games as much as we did the other sports and Wrestling. The Gas Crisis in the 70's killed it.
Another good answer would be Harness racing, which was Huge in certain areas in the 60's through 80's. I'll never forget the Meadowlands opening in 1972 and the crowd trying to get in that night. Big race nights at Yonkers, Roosevelt, and The Meadowlands routinely drew 30,000+. A typical Sat night crowd was 20,000 at The Meadowlands and whichever NY track that was running. It was huge in the Philly area with Multiple tracks. Results were given on every radio station.
Sadly, it did. Not sure why that's funny?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_roller_derby#In_the_1970s In 1973, high overhead and other factors led Jerry Seltzer to elect to shut down Roller Derby. In a 2005 interview, Ann Calvello mentioned gas shortages during the 1973 oil crisis as a contributing factor because teams could not travel. http://www.rollerderbyhalloffame.com/id3.html
Baseball? Revenues increasing, attendance steady (average attendance has been fairly constant for 25 years now), franchise values surging, is anyone even looking at player salaries? (they've increased $ 1,000,000 per year since this thread was started)
I do believe all sports will be somewhat impacted due to lesser interest in sports by millennial's and Gen Z, and I do believe all sports will be hurt somewhat by crazy salaries and the idiocy of modern day politics, but all four of our major sports are still going strong
Boxing and tennis have seemingly taken a hit in the states. Horse racing has lost some luster, Jai lai was never a sport nationwide but it's dead today. Bowling seems to be fading to, as venues continue to close
I do believe all sports will be somewhat impacted due to lesser interest in sports by millennial's and Gen Z, and I do believe all sports will be hurt somewhat by crazy salaries and the idiocy of modern day politics, but all four of our major sports are still going strong
Boxing and tennis have seemingly taken a hit in the states. Horse racing has lost some luster, Jai lai was never a sport nationwide but it's dead today. Bowling seems to be fading to, as venues continue to close
