The 80’s are long gone. The South is infitelty more obsessed with this sport than any other region of the country. They live and breath it down there.
So you are correct, we are not an elite team… and shall not be going forward. The era of football dominance by the sons of European working class immigrants is over. They’ve got decent lives now and don’t want ther children to be gladiators This is not the case in the South.