Don, you are a wealth of knowledge!
I just can't help but laugh that people believe that the entire populations of cities like Orlando or Cincinnati or Pittsburgh itself basically can fit into 2 or 3 areas that would each fit maybe a medium sized concert or small festival. LOL.
The NFL Draft is a microcosm of two common phenomena. The first is to always periodically promote anything and everything as "new and improved." Having set a precedent years ago of totally ******** crowd totals, Goodell can hardly announce at next year's event, "The NFL thanks the 15,000 fans here to watch this great annual event." As long as the league continues to fill up venues that hold 15,000 or so, the announced crowd of 300,000 or 400,000 has to at least stay the same and more likely keep creeping up as DWFs gulp it up as easily as they believe everything else.
Very little is actually genuinely "new" and "improving" in this rotting empire. Movies and TV shows just rehash the same old scripts and discredited agendas over and over with "new and improved" CGI and ever fewer White men, while products are shrunk in size while costing more and advertisements exclaim that they're better than before.
Something else I've noticed for a long time is how film footage from the past is usually grainy or otherwise obviously "looks old," even footage as recent as from a decade or so ago. But some, such as the re-showing of Super Bowl III for example, is still as sharp as the day it aired. Are you telling me there still isn't any way to archive film footage that keeps its original quality or something close to it? The subliminal message seems to be, this is old looking and thus inferior to what we have today.
About the only thing that's actually "new and improved" is the technology being used to corral us and enslave us.
The other phenomenon on display is the Big Lie technique, which can often be a Small Lie. Americans are so naive that they never think twice when they're told there's 320,000 people gathered in a small confined area when right next door is a football stadium that can hold many times the amount of people being shown.
It's no different when it comes to sports, where we've been informed every year for decades that today's athletes are "bigger, stronger and faster" than previous ones. If that's true, by now we should have football players running 2.0 40 times, effortlessly performing 100 bench presses at the Combine, and leaping over tall buildings in a single bound.
Yet I don't doubt that Vince Lombardi's mostly White Packers from the 1960s could more than hold their own against teams in today's DEI driven NFL.
There's a reason why more and more people refer to the U.S. as the Empire of Lies.