The decline continues...

Popularity has never been an issue for drag racing. I can't think of a single year, or period of years, when drag racing was in fear of dying due to lack of popularity. I doubt it will ever die...but it does seem to get less and less attractive as time goes on.

Sports.....I think in 50 years all sports will be banned for one reason or another, and there will only be one sport - non-contact football using a non-animal, non-chemical based football where there is 30 seconds of playtime and 3.5 hours of players each telling us just why they have a problem with how much they get paid and why heterosexual, white people are the root of all evil. We'll all learn to accept their words as Truth while ignoring the 13 kids they've each had out of wedlock with 11 different white women.