I paid over $800 for 2 people to go to a pure love of the game LSU college game last season.
Did not even get chair back seats. The 10 yard line .
Man I wonder how much that would have cost me if LSU loved money and did not do it just for the love of the game.
Did not even get chair back seats. The 10 yard line .
Man I wonder how much that would have cost me if LSU loved money and did not do it just for the love of the game.
Despite the idiot commish.
The NFL game is better quality wise then ever before.
There are players in the NFL Hall of Fame right now that could not make an NFL team practice squad today.
plus imo all pro sports has way too many games in a season, just look at nba, baseball and the nfl look like they trying to play every day of the week now............too many games make the pro sports way to much over-kill for me.i use to love monday nite football on abc, now it just another game to me, nothing to run home and watch
ckid I think some of what you are saying you are just confusing with television/technology really. That is what is creating the overkill.
You can watch every single game now pretty easily which didn't exist as much in past generations.
More sports is on TV than ever which is leading to the saturation for you.
You can watch every single game now pretty easily which didn't exist as much in past generations.
More sports is on TV than ever which is leading to the saturation for you.
I understand the sentiment that ck has, but i think some of it is a little misguided. I mean have you seen the tv contracts for the ncaa bowl games and march madness? Just because the players aren't paid, everyone else is and they are just as greedy as the owners in pro sports. Just look at the transfer fees/buyouts teams have paid to join different conferences (rutgers and maryland come to mind). they play the final 4 in pro football domed stadiums and sell every seat, even though 40% (maybe more?) are worthless to see any action. college athletics are just as greedy and about the money as anyone else, its just not the players.
this. and i dont know if it makes sense, but the coverage is just too much for me. as many of us, i'll BS about sports with my colleagues or whoever i tend to see on a frequent basis, and all too frequently I have to tell them its a random game of a meaningless 82 (or whatever) game schedule. its meaningless. nobody will care if lebron shot 2-12 or 15-20 in a game in january two months from now, nevermind 10 years.
honestly, I don't know if sports are to be consumed with this fervor every night of every season. its not how its meant to be enjoyed.
patsfan: me and buddy were discussing red sox sagging attendance again, and we both hit on the above. that a regualar season game doesn't need to be sold out event of the century with fan photos and first pitches and streets closed off etc. if a freakin baseball game. i think the owners have lost site of this, and there is some serious fatigue from the people who pay to go.
Yeah even if there is a fatigue the owners are just in a really good spot. 1 team per city, 2max in big cities. Cities more populated than ever so that takes care of most attendance. Then you got luxury suites and all that.
Then on TV the ad $ is better than ever because it is the only thing people don't DVR.
The Sox just had such an insane rabid following from like '03ish-08ish (not sure when it felloff, probably happened slowly) there was no way that type of fan intensity could be maintained when they're playing the Yankees 19 times a year.
