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Its an exciting time for Formula One, with new owners Liberty Media outlining a bold new vision for the sport. Though some seem worried about the new owners Americanising F1, ESPN looks not at what F1 can do for the U.S. but what the U.S. can do for F1.Game PassF1s viewing audience -- both at live races and those watching broadcasts -- is dwindling. There are many reasons for this, but the falling TV audience is largely down to the slow shift away from free-to-air TV. In Britain, Sky Sports recently announced it will have the exclusive rights for F1 from 2019 onwards -- meaning British fans will only be able to watch live races behind a paywall from that point. That will align the UK with Spain and France, which follow the same model, and is likely to be replicated elsewhere in Europe -- which accounts for around 60 percent of F1s current audience. There are many solutions to this, and one of them might be across the pond.The NFL and NBA are exemplary in taking their sport to the fan, rather than making the fan come to them. NFLs Game Pass costs ￡139.99 but guarantees you every second of every game (including the play-offs and the Super Bowl), interview, training session, documentaries and pretty much any NFL game to have happened in the last 10 years. Compare that to the hefty amount to pay for Sky in the UK, for example, which spends much of its time between races (and even during race weekends) showing re-runs of this years races or old interviews. Fans have no say what content is on but with Game Pass you watch what you want, when you want, and theres plenty of it. The model is replicated by the NBA -- a quick comparison between the NFL/NBA and F1 websites show the glaring difference the latter needs to address.To its credit, F1s recent social media input has been much-improved but the sport has seemed scared of embracing the very fans it is also confused about losing in such big numbers. American sports are all about taking themselves to the phone or laptop of the viewer rather than expecting fans to pay a lot of money for a limited amount of third-party content -- its about time F1 started doing the same.Color RushF1 should be the pinnacle of cool in sport. Its fast cars and beautiful people at glamorous locations but in recent years this seems to have been lost somewhat. Just look at the state of modern-day car launches compared to the ones of old. Nothing says sexy quite like a press release with renderings of your new car, does it? F1 appears to have gone backwards in recent years on that front. The NFL is one sport willing to think outside the box. Color -- or should that be colour? -- Rush is one example. The idea is simple -- teams wear match-up specific uniforms which are garish, alternate versions of their usual kits. Each team now has a kit for this purpose, giving the NFL perfect social media fodder and plenty of viral opportunities. Ditto to the throwback jerseys, which will see a team pick one week to wear a kit from a previous season in the NFL.? Imagine this in F1.A Mercedes running the inverted colours for Malaysia, with the green of sponsors Petronas for its home race, or Ferrari running a throwback livery for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, or McLaren-Honda going red and white for the Japanese Grand Prix. The latter two, especially, would create enormous hype and attention. In the modern age of social media, this is what fans want to see. Red Bulls camouflaged livery for winter testing last year is a good example -- an image that probably reached a lot of people who didnt even know that testing was taking place in Barcelona that week or otherwise have no interest in F1.This idea would also help the problem F1 seems to have recently of bland, unappealing liveries. Four of the teams run predominantly grey/black schemes which just do not look great on the race track. Haas is one of them. The teams sponsors are likely to get a fair amount of exposure in Austin this year but how much more would they get -- especially in America -- if they unveiled an unashamedly over-the-top star-spangled livery for that event? It may sound incredibly simple, but sometimes the key to winning fans over is getting them to say Wow, thats cool. And funky liveries are much cooler to the casual fan than an MGU-H, new brake duct or a 60-place grid penalty...A lotteryOne thing which keeps sports like the NFL and NBA so enjoyable is their changeable nature every year, with the Draft and Draft Lottery acting as a great leveller season on season. Now this isnt something that can be replicated for drivers in F1 but the idea could be used elsewhere -- for example, in shaking up the calendar. As Kate Walker has suggested on ESPN before, F1 should consider a lottery draft for places on the calendar. If the season is going to keep getting longer, then why shouldnt it look different every year?For example, imagine not knowing where five of 2017s races will be until December. To make the end-of-season trophy presentation actually mean something other than a black tie event for a handful of guests, this would be a perfect time to hold a draw. Much like the Champions League, the season champion could pick names out of a hat to hold the races which have put themselves forward as candidates. Imagine 2017s European Grand Prix at Magny-Cours, or an African Grand Prix at Kyalami, or a second U.S. Grand Prix at Dallas, Laguna Seca or Long Beach, assuming all were brought up to FIA standards, of course.Variation keeps sport interesting and this is something American sports are constantly reinvigorated by. Its a win-win -- old circuits get to pay for a one-off race, while fans get the chance to see F1 at new circuits and drivers get to visit circuits theyve never been to before. Each season looks vastly different as a result. Baku was a special event this year, ditto Mexico last year, but the gloss and interest of new events can be quick to wear off if fan numbers drop off in the following years.An event away from the eventTheres been a lot of talk about spicing up the whole format of the current F1 weekend. Theres a lot that can change, but how about something that actually doesnt have any ramification on the season? The NBA holds an annual Slam Dunk Contest for players which now crowns an annual champion. It has no bearing on the season as a whole but is popular with fans, and did include fan voting to determine the winner until several years ago. It gives players additional bragging rights and gives lesser-known players a chance to create superstar status but, most importantly of all, it gives people another reason to watch other than who might win on Sunday -- especially if that question has only two probable answers...F1 seems like the perfect place for this kind of competition. Last year Christian Horner suggested the revival of the Procar series, which saw F1 drivers race against each other in one-make machinery at grand prix weekends. This lends itself to celebrity drivers, or drivers from other series, pitting themselves against one another in equal machinery for what ostensibly would be competition with a bit of fun added to it as well. Imagine Lewis Hamilton going up against Jeff Gordon and Tom Kristensen, for example, or Mika Hakkinen rolling back the years to take on Kimi Raikkonen as part of a ten-lap sprint race. You know youd watch it. If an idea is exciting to think about, then fans are going to want to watch it and thats something F1 cannot say about the current product.Americas GameF1 has an incredible history -- a mix of tragedy, bravery, legendary drives and quirky characters. The job of F1 should be to tell this story to the masses, rather than relying on individual television channels to do so. Again, America is great at doing this. I will use NFL as an example. The excellent A Football Life documentaries follow retired players and coaches and tell their life story, using footage of their career and interviews with friends, colleagues and family. This is often available in the Game Pass mentioned above and is perfect for filling a weekend without NFL -- think of all those quiet F1 weekends or summer breaks you could be spending watching a historic F1 race or documentary of your choosing at the click of a button. It doesnt just have to be old history, either.The NFL also runs a documentary called Americas Game at the start of each season, telling the story of the Super Bowl winners campaign through the eyes of three key people. The Hard Knocks series is also excellent - following a team through training camp ahead of the season. 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It also means that for once the Crows will be facing a highly rated opponent without having to contend with a player once counted among their number.Alongside Tippett, Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong), Jack Gunston (Hawthorn) and Phil Davis (Greater Western Sydney) were all Adelaide draftees, learning their trade in the AFL and showing enormous promise before choosing to leave the West Lakes nest that had nurtured them. Had that quartet remained in Adelaide, the Crows first 22 would be the envy of the league, but as it is they haunt the club like the ghost of Christmas past, come to visit Ebenezer Scrooge.As with Scrooges Yuletide introspection, their departures led to questions about how the Crows functioned, and about Adelaide as a place. While interstate recruits invariably discuss the go home factor with potential clubs at draft screening and in their early days after arrival, Adelaide seemed more affected than most.This had a history going back numerous years before the Dangerfield generation. The likes of Kane Johnson, Chris Knights, Jonathon Griffin and Nathan Bock all fled the Crows when presented by opportunities either for a home posting or a rich contract to set them up for life after football. Bocks departure to the Gold Coast was compounded when Davis, the man groomed to replace him, elected to accept the entreaties of GWS.Plenty of contention surrounded Gunstons desire to return to Melbourne right at the moment he looked to be maturing into a forward of considerable skill, and the Hawks have read the benefits of Adelaides earlier nurturing work. Hawthorn supporters have taken to singing You wish you had Jack Gunston to the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas: nary a Crows supporter or administrator can fail to wince at that one. In the same year Gunston left, the re-signing of the unassuming wingman David MacKay was looked upon as something of a minor miracle.Of course it was Tippett who but epitomised Adelaides sheer frustration about retaining players. In a saga daubed across newspaper back pages for far longer than anyone at West Lakes would have liked, the salary cap transgression designed to keep Tippett in Adelaide for the short-term, cost the club enormously in terms of draft penalties and staff bans, before the Swans were able to pick him up for no gain by the Crows. It remains the most embarrassing chapter in club history.The lesson learned at the time was twofold. First, there seemed little point in stretching the rules to accommodate players who did not want to remain in Adelaide. Secondly, the market pressure created by the addition of Gold Coast and GWS to the AFL had allowed players to be far more aggressive in chasing home pastures or bigger contracts. The Crows had been caught in a major storm, and hurt themselves further by trying to swim against the current.dddddddddddd.Since then, smoother waters have been sought and largely found. Ironically, the circumstances in which Adelaide have settled their list down and become more successful at retaining players actually revolve around the bonds formed by draftees from outside South Australia. Daniel Talia, who joined the Crows in the same year Tippett signed his fateful three-year contract extension in 2009, summed up how things had changed -- Adelaide is now a desirable place in which to grow together.Its funny, a lot of the guys at the club now are from interstate and I feel like thats really bonded us closer, Talia (Calder Cannons) said of a group featuring the likes of Rory Sloane (Eastern Ranges), Rory Atkins (Calder Cannons), Tom Lynch (St Kilda) and Josh Jenkins (Essendon). With the events of last year were a really tight knit group and our cultures one of our strong points.Weve got a great culture and guys want to hang around and be a part of that. Weve got a core group who are 18 to 25 and we dont have many senior guys other than Thommo [Scott Thompson] and Dougy [Richard Douglas] and those kinds of guys. Were all growing up together, playing footy together and developing as a group. Its a really exciting time to be around the club and guys want to be a part of that, says Talia.Many of the old headlines were dredged back up by Dangerfields decision to return home to Geelong at the end of 2015, a decision he had made some months before but kept quiet. However it is now possible to view his exit as something of an outlier to a wider trend, for young interstate players of promise to decide that Adelaide isnt just the place to be for a football education, but as a club to make your home.Certainly, and with more games of footy and the more we play together I feel like the more were going to improve, Talia said. Its an exciting time, an opportunity for our group to play some good footy and win finals. We dont just want to make up the numbers, we want to go the whole way.Added to the sense of togetherness at Adelaide is the fact that the team have not been built through the pick of the national draft, nor the generous concessions offered to new clubs elsewhere. Instead this is a group carefully compiled from lower draft choices, rookie draft selections and trades. Contentions that the Crows lack the star power of other clubs may actually be a strength: they know they must work for each other to be a chance, whether on the field or at contract time.Crows re-signed in the past two years: Brad Crouch, Daniel Talia, Brodie Smith, Josh Jenkins, Rory Atkins, Mitch McGovern, Tom Lynch, Rory Sloane, Sam Jacobs, Richard Douglas, Rory Laird, Luke Brown, Jake Lever, Charlie Cameron, Jake Kelly, Kyle Hartigan, Riley Knight, Reilly OBrien ' ' '