Actually, I disagree. When Prime was killed off, kids got turned off to TF real fast. I should know, I was one of them along with all my friends who were big TF fans back in the day. Man, that was 20 years ago...
Man, I remember that competition around 1990 (read about it way back in 88') and how I wanted the YF-23 Black Widow to win so bad. The YF-23 looked kick-ass and still does.
Too bad the NAVY never got interested in it toreplace the Tomcat.