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Originally Posted by bballchump11
both. Football wasn't as popular back then, but now it's easily the most popular sport in america. Every year the Super Bowl consistently gets around 40-50 million households with a lot of those being SB parties.
Companies pay an average of 5 million dollars just to put a 30 second commercial on during the Superbowl.
and I don't doubt that the Eastern Europeans are a factor. But when I evaluate the current American HW scene, I'm not looking at their accomplishments today against the rest of the world. I'm just comparing their skills, technique, athleticism to the heavyweights in the past.
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Football has been pretty popular since the 80's its not like football is this new phenomenon, probably the leading sport here since the 80's or 90's
I think our issues with boxing are due to our issues with boxing
great big athletes have played in other sports for decades like Kareem or Wilt its not like big men werent around in other sports b4