I'm not extrapolating anything about "the rest of the country" - there is some kind of summer camp near where I live where I see little kids playing tackle football (or really just doing drills - I've never stopped to see a game) - I don't know what percentage of them come from the town. I'm just saying that I marvel that parents would let children 8-year-olds (my guess as to their age, I have no idea, but they are little) play tackle football and I attribute a lot of it to their ignorance of the danger and inevitable harm the sport does to the kids but also the NFL's campaign to convince us that there are safe ways for kids to play football. Obviously there are still parents who haven't gotten the memo yet, but I think it's inevitable that they will. Certainly there will still be some who never get the memo. If they had summer camps for kids to learn how to smoke cigarettes, I imagine some parents would be okay with that, but most wouldn't.
I'm a huge fan of the sport and will of course continue to watch it, but I am very aware that its days, as we know it, are numbered. This is really the golden age for the NFL, but I can't see it going on like this for too many more decades. I'm 62-years-old and don't expect to see significant change in my lifetime. As a fan, I find the whole issue really fascinating.