Is 1970-1990 Football the Next Collector Card Growth Era?

[OPC Baseball Obsessed]

This seems like preaching to the choir in the "Vintage Football Cards" section of the site, but I had an interesting conversation with a colleague and collector about the new generation of semi-pro collector, and isn't there a really strong argument that the next group of solid, steady and fan-based vintage cards will come out of these football sets considering (1) the tainting of the PED era in baseball and its two biggest stars (which is ridiculous, IMO, but relevant here); (2) the general decrease in the popularity of baseball running consistently through age demographics; (3) the "junk era" production essentially nullifying a great majority of the baseball sets from 1988-1994/5; (4) the 'single star' element of modern basketball cards; and (5) the reasonably limited production of all FB cards of this era? The explosion of the Payton card(s) surely backs this up.

Would like to hear everyone's take on this.