I&#x27;m interested to see if sports&#x27; cultural cache experiences more of a perceptible fall.  For a long time, sports fandom provided a uniquely immersive experience - a world of interesting play styles, strategies, stats, and exciting shared experiences in the big games.<p>My sense is that the hardcore fans are still there, but a lot of casual followers are slowly being peeled away into other immersive experiences - well written TV, social media communities, deeper and deeper gameplay experiences.  Additionally, gathering a bunch of people into a room to watch something isn&#x27;t as much of a draw with the constant connectivity of smartphones.  My girlfriend is a<p>When you add the dinosaur economic model controlling the medium and the rising sensitivity to the brain damage that football causes, I wouldn&#x27;t be too surprised to see a more perceptible downturn.