David Kahn, Columnist

Kids Who Quit Football Won't Quit the NFL

There are 30 million 'avid' female NFL fans. And none of them played a down of Pop Warner.

September 7, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC

David Kahn has been general manager of the Indiana Pacers, president of the Minnesota Timberwolves, head of the Oregon Stadium Campaign for Major League Baseball and is currently teaching two courses on sports economics at New York University.

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Football season’s already upon us, like a Seahawks safety blitz, which means it’s again time for the doomsayers to predict that the National Football League’s popularity and TV ratings will eventually wane because of the increasing numbers of concussion-wary parents who won't let their children play youth football.

But this argument fails for two reasons: