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Do you back RFK Jr. in his effort to BAN all pharmaceutical companys commercials on national TV?

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Should the NFL expand to a 30 game season?
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The failure of various non-NFL professional football leagues implies to me that people don’t love football sufficiently to want simply “more!”

Part of the NFL’s appeal I think is similar to what people used to do around water coolers the morning after a popular network show ran: everyone was watching the same thing at the same time and had an opinion on it, etc. If, instead of everyone focused on the same storylines featuring the same stars, you had a couple A-list versions and simultaneously a …

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I want to add that once upon a time boxing was considered to be a more popular sport than football, basketball, and hockey. However they got greedy, first with closed-circuit broadcasting then at-home pay-per-view. Once upon a time you could watch Mike Tyson box on ABC's Wide World of Sports! That helped to develop new fans. Once you went off of free TV, you couldn't develop new fans. Once upon a time the heavyweight champion was one of the most famous people in the world; now, I couldn't even …

As a kid in the 80s and 90s it was basically impossible to get really interested in boxing. All the big fights were on Pay Per View and even if you found a way to watch them, usually didn't start until very late. Then when Tyson was dominate they were over very quickly, who wants to pay $49.95 (around $120 today) to watch a fight that lasted less than 3 minutes?

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