Brady vs the NFL: The Case that Might Knock the Football from Being the Number One Sport?

[Jangler]

The 1919 Chicago White Sox (Black Sox)

nuff said.

[TN05]

There isn't a sport that could surpass football, so no.

[London Loves Luke]

No chance, stuff like Deflategate is pushing football to the front and backpages of every newspaper and sports site in the middle of NBA playoffs and we are 5 months from the first football of 2015 being played.

 

The league is 24/7, 360 days a year. There's always another story in the back pocket to remind people that football is #1.

[t96]

This won't have any effect whatsoever on the popularity of the league as a whole. Will almost certainly lose some Patriots "fans" but that won't have an effect on the league as a whole.

[Montsta]

I doubt this knocks the NFL from its pedestal.

I will say that if there was ever something that could knock Goodell out of the commissioners office, it's pissing off one of his most lucrative bosses in Robert Kraft.

It would almost be worth the Super Bowl we lost to the Patriots if it meant it was even a minor step toward Goodell being relieved of his duties.

[rmoneyg35]

The only way the NFL isn't the most popular sport in the U.S. is if they turn it into flag football. I would still enjoy it more than baseball and soccer.

[Davidson Deac II]

No scandal will Knock football off its pedestal.  If football ever loses its number one spot, it will be because a better game came along, ie football replacing baseball as the number one sport.

[Mr. Scot]

Once the games start, the entire nation will be in a football frenzy, just like it is every year,

 

These things offer topics for offseason discussion and add to rge drama once the season starts, but let's be real. It'd take something way bigger than this to knock football out of the top spot in the American consciousness.

 

The biggest consequence you might see out of something like this is a reorganization of leadership, and if Goodell can survive the Ray Rice thing, I'm not so sure I'd even bet on that.

 

So what if Kraft hates him when 31 other owners despise Belichick, and Kraft by extension?

 

Get guys like Mara and Rooney against you and you've got serious trouble.  Kraft?  Not so much.

[Car123]

Stupid rules/format changes, not brady.

[Fox007]

No, the other sports are just too damn boring on TV....or too regional and not shown nationally....or have too many damn games in a season...or different rules for different leagues....yea the other sports have more than 1 mountain to climb to take over the NFL.

 

 

 

[propagandamachine]

He likes his balls deflated

[PhillyB]

if anything it helps galvanize rivalries and compelling storylines that make the good-guy-bad-guy dynamic that drives them and gets marginal people involved in football.

[Mr. Scot]

How big is the NFL?

 

This big...

 

White House press Secretary comments on Tom Brady story

[UpstatePanther]

i doubt it. people may well stop watching ESPN and NFL Network except during games, and even if they dont, they could do like im thinking of doing and just listening to the radio broadcast with the tv volume muted.