I can see both sides, and also see that none of the sanctioned footbag games contributes significantly to the promotion of footbag at the present. All mixed up in the debate of promotion is teevee and the media. I own two golf holes, but I don't own a single teevee set. That aside, the conventional wisdom is that the media, and especially teevee since footbag is such an action-oriented activity, is crucial to footbag promotion. If you get the media interested in footbag, then you can get other people to support footbag, since they will inevitably get a slice of the coverage.
Golf is the one game that has been effectively ridiculed by media.
At least three infamous teevee spots come to mind that were edited and presented to make footbag look stupid, and they all used golf to do it. When teevee is seen as the holy grail of footbag promotion, any negative coverage can be disastrous. Dennis Jones asserts that teevee is so important to footbag that if it doesn't look good on teevee, it shouldn't be done. A fact that detractors overlook, though, is that even without golf, those same camera crews and editors would have come up with some other way to ridicule footbag. Even though footbag golf may have been the most convenient target, there is little or no doubt that the unhappy cameraperson and the sadistic editor would have butchered our little sport, no matter what.