Excuses for my Great-Grandkids to get wasted.

I think you hit the mark on number of things in that post. But let me pose a hypothetical.

Lets say the NFL does have a lock-out or a strike, and lets say they lost an entire season. Would something else fill that get-wasted-on-Sundays void? Is there anything about the actual sport itself, leaving aside scheduling that endears itself to this kind of behavior?

*OVERUSED BEN FLASH ANALOGY BREAK*
What you are describing is precisely why I don't go out and get wasted on Saint Patrick's day. I am not Irish and I don't need an excuse to go out and get wasted. If I feel the urge to drink to excess for no reason I don't really need a some contrived holiday. Just to be clear, I have no problem AT ALL with Irish people celebrating Saint Patrick's Day, and I don't even have a problem with anyone celebrating it. As I referenced, I really feel the American equivalent is Super Bowl. So I celebrate Super Bowl as an alternative to Saint Patrick's day.

ANYWAY, I want to bring this back to the question of globalization vs localization. My suspicion is that without football something would fill this void. My general sense is that MLB and the NBA as organizations will outlive the NFL. I'll leave the NHL out of this because, in my opinion, the sport of hockey will survive indefinitely, but I suspect that league is cooked.

But Football is a relatively recent sport, and my guess is that in the broad scope of sports history we may eventually view it as a flash in the pan. There is something timeless about the other sports, football on the other hand feels like a specific representation of our age. I really wonder if 100 years from now our great-grandchildren who are flying to Rome in an hour are going to care as much about a sport that has a such narrow influence world-wide. To that end I bet football evolves much more so then the other sports, into something we wouldn't recognize as football. Honestly I think I'd like it better if it was played by robots or organically manufactured drones.

Want to know why? Read this.