The trick is that these sports then don't have as long of a life if the money isn't in it. Upper/middle class adults are less likely to want to spend money watc

The trick is that these sports then don't have as long of a life if the money isn't in it. Upper/middle class adults are less likely to want to spend money watching sports they never played in their youth. Maybe more so if they see the sport as barbaric. Exceptions abound, of course.