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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 3165416, member: 591"] Old folks are a significant part of the audience in almost all college sports. It is well represented in football and men's basketball crowds, there just are more of other folks. The other sports, lots of gray, you could say. We went to a lot of away games when we were based in NJ and it was true at virtually every school. At Rutgers, a lot of the fans we knew 20 years ago have passed or cannot get to games anymore and they have been replaced by other old folks. That said, that was not the demographic of the pro games I have attended. I think it is difficult for older folks to necessarily get themselves to the pro arenas, and I think a down side to it is that they probably are not going to spend a lot of side money on concessions and merchandise. Gay / Straight- if you mean the players, doesn't have any impact with me. Some are, some are most certainly not. As to audience, at least when I have attended games, there is a "higher than in the general population" number of gay females, but that doesn't mean there is an army more of them that want to attend. [/QUOTE]