Bad News

[Daniel Forant Sr <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Article from the Boston Celtics Newsgroup. 
Part of it.

> Today's fans are at NASCAR races, bass fishing
> tournaments, major league soccer and the X Games. They're
> fueling the explosion of women's pro sports leagues, such
> as the ABL and WNBA. They're at the minor league
> ballparks, where a family of four can still go to a game
> for under $50. They're watching their kids play sports, or
> they're playing ball themselves in a rec league. They're
> surfing the Internet or watching things other than sports
> on the 150 channels on their satellite dishes. They are
> not necessarily planning their lives around seeing a NBA,
> NHL, NFL or MLB game.
>
> There still are fans who are crazy about sports. The
> question is whether there are enough them to sustain the
> current economic structure that rules the Big Four pro
> sports? The numbers and the long-term trends say no.

How true!! Actually I don't miss the NBA, just the Celts.