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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
What's the difference who's paying for it, it's still more expensive equipment.
You're referring to a very select segment of kids as playing 100 games (a year, I suppose). How does it look for the avg. child player? If you count total field time, practice + games, I bet it's more for football than for baseball for the avg. child playing adult-organized ball.
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My point was not what is actually more expensive overall, my point was that schools have been funding the helmets and pads for years. I never payed to have most of the items that were necessary to play football. And that equipment is reused year after year. A baseball player does not give back a glove or in some cases bats. As a matter of fact I have my gloves from years ago at my parent's home. A baseball player plays many more games and potentially does much more traveling over a a similar period of time.
And most of all, whether you or others want to accept this fact, baseball when the World Series going on did not come up to the TV ratings or even a meaningless Monday Night Football game. Football is still very popular both college and pro and all these situations will do is prevent the fringe kid from playing for the most part. I do not see football going away at all. I do see it might not be played under high schools anymore, but that might happen for a lot of sports as club and other non-scholastic sports are becoming more and more popular. But the best athletes who are often inner-city kids are not going to stop playing football and replace it with soccer, baseball or lacrosse. If anything there might be more kids that play basketball and many football players play basketball already.
Peace