.assuming they are rational people. An extremely small percentage of youth football players end up on collegiate scholarship, and an infinitesimal percentage end up on a professional roster. Nobody that know of that I played football with as a kid was in it to become professional. Why assume that one sport's youth participant profile is different than the other?

As to the point: it is not realistic to say that a sport played by nearly 1/3 of the country is a sport of the 'privileged', especially when such a high concentration of hispanics play.

FYI: my neighbor is a former professional soccer player and his son is on a collegiate soccer scholarship.
[Post edited by lawhokie at 10/11/2017 8:15PM]