Science News reports. The Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age, author said: "We could see a dramatic rise in leisure activities and collective gatherings post-pandemic, including live music concerts and sports events. "That’s what happened in the 1920s as societies emerged from the 1918 [influenza] pandemic and World War I.
In the United States, the rise [in popularity and national prominence] of professional baseball and college football occurred."In Europe, professional soccer expanded.