Isnt American footie actualy a system to generate statistics and advertising revenue?
Like last Superbowl, no one had any idea as to which teams were playing and who won, but they all watched the advertising.
Nope; not quite yet anyway.
American football starts way, way, way before the Superbowl. It begins with Peewee football at the Junior High School (Middle School) level in 7th and 8th grade.
The next level being high school, which is where the real addiction begins with the best teams going all the way to division championships. The university scouts following these players very closely looking for the prospects they're going to offer scholarships too. This is where the big money begins to insert itself, though on a comparatively smaller scale (a scholarship being worth far less than the $millions pros are paid)
Even on the pro level where the players are paid $millions and the owners and the NFL itself (the league) make $billions, the average fan (almost the entire population) are much, more interested (obsessed actually) with the game and the players. And they
all know who the teams in the Superbowl are. The fascination with the ads is great but still secondary; as is the grandiose half-time show which is a spectacle in itself.
The bottom line is that the football and the money are related. It takes the fascination with the game itself to generate the money; and in turn, it takes the money to attract the quality of players, coaches, trainers etc, to generate the quality of play.
From what I've been seeing and reading the last few years, soccer'
begun moving in that direction as well, although not to the same scale as yet.
As to the statistics, no, that's baseball. Statistics have their use in football, but they're far less important.
