Since the football season is starting, it should be banned. It's the only sport people talk about from now till the season ends. The sport also messes up the sunday night prime time schedule when the game runs late. What do you think?
I sometimes get annoyed when football ends up interfering with the Fox Sunday night lineup of the Simpsons and Family Guy. After all, it just ends up having the immoral showing of football interfere with the even more immoral Sunday night lineup
My personal take on the matter is that it's certainly not healthy to be obsessed by football or any other sport, but that in moderation of watching the occasional game or getting together with friends for a nice Superbowl party is fine. I certainly don't think that it should be banned. That would mean that you are in favor of a totalitarian government which would legislate what sports can and can't be played or shown. It's the old cliche' if you don't like what's being shown or played, there's the dial!
Also, hypothetically, let's say Football and all major sports were to disappear, do you honestly think that this will then cause more people to pay attention to what's happening to them around them in the world? I don't think so. They'll just find another addiction to wrap themselves up in. They'll go from pro football and baseball to American Idol and Hell's Kitchen. If you ban all reality shows, the masses will then turn to old game shows from the '70s on the Gameshow Network. (and so on and so forth...)