PREDICTION: THE NFL IS ON THE DOWNSIDE

As I write this my house is packed with teen age and pre-teen aged boys watching the taped X-Games (Extreme Games) on ABC, an event many of them attended LAST NIGHT. These kids skateboard, skate, ride bikes, surf and all the rest. They are into these games big time. These X-Treme "activities" make room for outstanding athletes who aren't 6'10" or weigh 300 pounds a shot at fame and fortune if they dare to do the craziest shit they can come up with on bike, skates, skateboards and other stuff. I live in LA, the place the NFL deserted and then told us to go to hell because the taxpayers refused to build them a stadium. What starts in SoCal spreads to the rest of the world and kids involved in this stuff is a world wide big time activity. There will never be an NFL team here, and I predict the NBA (already in a downslide in ratings), NFL, Baseball (a boring game for kids who won't play it anymore), are toast. These games have put 40,000 into the LA Colesium and another 17,000 into the Staples Center at the same time.

These are the young X-Game Kids doing activities that allow them to be super macho, dare devil, individualists. That's where we are headed. "Grind" opens this week and is a guaranteed monster hit. Get ready to take your boys, and maybe your girls too.