{"id":17024,"date":"2017-12-07T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17024"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:38:09","slug":"the-overwatch-videogame-league-aims-to-become-the-new-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17024","title":{"rendered":"The Overwatch Videogame League Aims to Become the New NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every major sport in the US has seen the average age of its viewership increase since 2000. The NBA\u2019s average fan is 42. The average NFL fan is 50. The average MLB fan is 57. What\u2019s more, these audiences are limited almost entirely to North America. The Overwatch League, meanwhile, will begin with nine US teams and three from abroad\u2014Shanghai, Seoul, and London (with more, I\u2019m told, on the way)\u2014and its average fan is a demographically pleasing 21 years old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/overwatch-videogame-league-aims-to-become-new-nfl\/\">The Overwatch Videogame League Aims to Become the New NFL | WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every major sport in the US has seen the average age of its viewership increase since 2000. The NBA\u2019s average fan is 42. The average NFL fan is 50. The average MLB fan is 57. What\u2019s more, these audiences are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[1412,661],"class_list":["post-17024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-esports","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17025,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17024\/revisions\/17025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}