Will NFL Mean No Fans Left?

BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 10-30-10

[Tribune7]

Fans of the San Diego Charges, Detroit Lions and Oakland Raiders will miss their teams on TV tomorrow as the teams failed to sell out the stadiums by the Thursday deadline.

This brings the number of NFL blackouts to 13 for the season which is more than half of last year's 22 with 60 percent of the games still to be played.

[malkee]

I live in Pittsburgh. Don’t have to worry about missing the game on TV.

[Bean Counter]

$62.50 a ticket for nosebleed seats and $10 beers to go with $12 hotdogs might have something to do with it.

I have DirecTV RedZone which is directly in front of the best seat in my house anyway...

[bmwcyle]

Fans are tired of over priced fix games with felons and babies playing it.

[bmwcyle]

Fans are tired of over priced fix games with felons and babies playing it.

[TruthHound]

Couldn’t have anything to do with the 5th week in a row with cleats, pads, gloves mouth guards and goal posts the color of Pepto Bismol. Naaah.

*hurl*

[CAluvdubya]

DH and I thought we'd try to get tickets to one of the games and found out just how expensive the tickets were!

It's crazy! How do they think folks can afford to go to games? At least baseball is still affordable.

[pnh102]

Maybe its me, but the overall product seems to be really lacking.

I have to agree... I used to love the NFL when I was younger but for the past 15 or so years it has just felt more blah and meh than anything else.

[ml/nj]

And Jet game will not be on at my house as NFL allows Fox to hold its signal, that they give away free, for ransom from Cablevision.

ML/NJ

[DungeonMaster]

“It’s like watching the Crips vs the Bloods, there I said it” Rush.

[fish hawk]

I think I've gone through the change. I used to love Pro football and was glued to the set every weekend but now in my old age, I watch college football and hardly watch pro games anymore. Also I've gotten heavy into the PBR (pro Bull Riders) and any football comes in second these days.

[pnh102]

Instead of looking at their internal personnel problems and adjusting accordingly, they threaten to move the team in order to coerce more fans to buy tickets.

Usually such threats are made to coerce the local and state government to pay for a new playground for the team. I wish more of these cities would let these welfare queens make good on their threats and leave. By definition any entity that requires taxpayer support is a drag on the economy and the local area is better off without it.

[Popman]

Not to mention games decided by a legal system and crappy officials parsing increasingly stupid rules designed to make the NFL a non-contact sport.

I'm about one more game away from boycotting the NFL if I see one more idiotic, moronic, stupid, incomprehensible call made by the officials

Also the blackout rules need to be updated in the brave new world (only twenty years) of pay cable TV

I would gladly paid a few bucks to my cable company to see my Tampa Bucs lose rather than NOT see the game if it is blacked out

If they charged say $3.99 per game split between the cable company and the NFL it would surely make sense

[darkangel82]

2010 has been one big fail for that franchise.

[rickmichaels]

Factor in the hassle of finding a decent parking spot, the cost of tickets, hot dogs, popcorn, beer, lining up to pee at halftime, being surrounded by drunk morons, freezing your ass off, etc., and you quickly realize that it’s just not worth it, especially if your team sucks and looks like they’ll continue to suck for years and years.

[KarlInOhio]

3. putting their games on NBC with Olbermann on the pre-game for many years and a “green” broadcast

Turn off a couple thousand watts of stage lights so you can brag about how green you are over megawatts of broadcast antennas. If they were really green they would keep the lights and use candles to power the transmitters. Oh, wait, that would cut into their advertising revenue and can't do that because smugness doesn't pay the bills.

[Calvin Locke]

During the World Cup, the show formerly known as Art Bell had the author of a book called “The Fix Is In” on.

He covers a number of sports with examples on how each is manipulated.

Soccer is the worst, thanks to Asian gambling syndicates.

A Federal court case that says the NFL is only obligated to provide a ticket holder a game, not necessarily a real contest.

How about out of the first 40 televised World Series, half went the full 7 games? So much for the expected bell curve.

Or isn’t it peculiar that NHL expansion teams do so well, as in expanding the market appeal of those teams?

What about the NBA? They sign a new deal with a network, and viola! The audience drawing classic Lakers v. Celtics rivalry happens again for the championship!

[KarlInOhio]

It's crazy! How do they think folks can afford to go to games? At least baseball is still affordable.

The vast majority of the games are sold out. That tells me that the ticket have a reasonable market price, even if they are above what I would pay. If anything the tickets might be underpriced with that many sold out games.

I've only gone once and that was for free because I got a ticket from a season ticket holder who couldn't go.

[BluH2o]

Couldn’t have anything to do with the 5th week in a row with cleats, pads, gloves mouth guards and goal posts the color of Pepto Bismol.

This breast cancer awareness BS is way over done by the NFL. One Sunday/Monday in October OK ... beyond that and it begins to be annoying as hell. Someone earlier in this string suggested the NFL move their HQ from NYC ... I think that's an excellent suggestion.

[dinoparty]

Modern stadiums with their sterile conditions and endless side entertainment, high prices, gimmicks such as pink accessories and throwback uniforms, all have ruined it for me.