Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.