Originally Posted by spearce
I refer you to the NHL. Cancelling the flag ship event of the sport would be the end of the sport for many of the small American fan base. we'd get distracted and move on.
I thought about that, too, but then thought about baseball and the cancelation of the 1994 World Series. A decade or so later and it has only led to higher attendance in ballparks.
Sometimes the event is bigger than the things that conspire to kill it off.
As the old saying goes, it's the Tour that makes the rider, not the other way around.