Posted on 11/18/2012 4:19:52 AM PST by raccoonradio
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said recently that the reason NFL ticket sales are down over the past five years is HD television.
Oh, Rog, Rog, Rog. There are so many reasons that NFL games, like teenage boys, are better at home. I've mentioned a few before, but how about 20 more?
1) At home, you don't have to stand in line to pee.
2) At home, you don't have to stand in line to pee while watching a drunk pee in a sink.
3) The average cost of a beer at an NFL game is $7.13. In your fridge, it's about a buck. And it's colder
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.go.com ...
At home I can watch the game in my underwear...
Funny article, and hits the mark.
If all NFL games were home games they could be played on high school fields and we wouldn’t have pay for billion dollar NFL stadiums.
This explains why videogames threatening sports.
If home games are the future, the team is liitle more than our avatars. Then the game itself does not have to be real.
Humor has a way of exposing truth.
At home, I can watch the 8 seconds of action and skip the 60 seconds of prancing and milling about.
Make it pay per view. Pay a bunch of drunk and homeless people to fill the stadium and, as they enter, hand them passes for free room and board at the Democrat mayor’s office/Democrat headquarters for the next week.
It’s Obama’s fault. Too many of the people who would like to go to the games don’t have jobs.
Oh God, soon there be Obamatickets to go to the Bears games.
There is also nothing more deflating than going on that special trip to see your team play your most hated rival, not even be able to tell your QB got injured on a snap because you are in row VV in the opposite corner of the field, lose the game on a last second field goal, and be taunted on the city streets by the opposing fans who travel the country for such purposes. They stand on the fire hydrants and can’t just enjoy the victory but have to rub it in the noses of the home team fans. I suspect some of them pour beer on others yelling “You s***!”
The fee for parking for one game today equals the cost of my season ticket in 1967.
Games are just too expensive and take way too much time for kids today.
Another big problem with football is overexposure. Too many games, as Troy Aikman pointed out. There are too many games from the NFL on down, including the endless seasons of playoff and bowl-saturated college football.
Each NFL game used to be a BIG deal, something to look forward to on Sunday afternoon. Now games come and go almost as fast as NBA basketball games.
The NFL schedule has gone from 14 games to 16 and some want 18. The “bye week” and playoffs extend the season forever. Games on just about every day of week. Plays last too long. You can never cheer a fantastic play wholeheartedly. Instead you hear the dreaded words — “flag down.” Or you wait through commercials for official reviews that last forever.
For the vast majority of people, all NFL games are home games.
But human psychology is such that if you didn’t have those 60,000 screaming fans there, as captured by the camera, it wouldn’t seem to be such an event worth watching.
Cute article. My husband and I were astounded at the costs involved in a football game ... although he’s been to a few concerts in the last year, so he wasn’t as flabbergasted as I.
There’s only ONE reason to stay home: NFL REDZONE! Never has a tv channel ever been MORE in-tuned with the typical football fan. It’s like my remote control has a mind of its own and can snif out all the games where teams are close to scoring. Then at the end you get to see all the touchdowns scored from noon until eight. It might possibly be the pinnacle of Western civilization.
16) When the game is over at home, it doesn’t take 90 minutes to get out.
Start with a TV deal for second-tier schools who want to be big names (like the MAC conference, which is what Northern Illinois U plays in; NIU is in DeKalb IL) and suddenly you have "Wednesday Night Football."
Like those college football players are supposed to get an actual education. Really?
They would be X RATED
and who would want to watch a bunch of guys playin' with themselves!
But human psychology is such that if you didn’t have those 60,000 screaming fans there, as captured by the camera, it wouldn’t seem to be such an event worth watching.
I would choose no announcers over having to listen to Brent Musburger announce a game.
Watched a great High School game last night, Mentor vs St. Ignatious(sp?) Double OT. Haven’t watched the Cleveland Clowns in three years.
At home, I get a better view of all the plays. I’m also border-line introverted so big crowds are a chore to endure and I don’t “feed off the energy” of big crowds like so many seem to do.
I hope I still get your Christmas card but I like him.
Pink Shoes
My wife likes to go to the games, but I’d much rather stay home and watch them on TV.
Last time I went, I sat next to a drunk who was so obnoxious, his own girlfriend/wife got sick of him and stood up and left.
Then, we got rained on. Afterward, we sat in traffic for an hour.
This year, we had tickets to a game, but I talked her out of going. Sold the tickets and stayed home.
It was windy and rainy and our team lost. My wife thanked me.
And after it takes forever to get out, some genius police commander thinks it is a great time to stop all traffic on the interstate for DWI checks, so you get arrested for public urination when you originally thought you could make it till you got home.
Agreed. Redzone is the only way to watch football now, especially the last five minutes of all the games. Unforunately I’ve cut my cable so I’ll have to watch it on my phone or slingbox it off my brother.
You should hear the third-rate Nashville renditions on most NASCAR races. Breathy, moan-y, whiny, and they all sing it at a tempo more suitable for a funeral march.
Unless you have field-level seats, I think you tend to get a much better view on TV. Even better if you have a DVR with stop, slo-mo and rewind. The same applies to the game itself.
At home, you stand a slightly smaller chance of getting killed by thug Obama voters who are pissed that their team lost the game.
Lordy.
Today is the last race of the season... is it going to be JJ or the kiddo?
Football is a much better game on TV than in person. Baseball vice versa.
Its going to be a nail biter.
Absolutely true. Unfortunately, both have become unaffordable for the many fans, at least at the professional level. For my family and I to go to a Red Sox game runs well north of $300, and the only reason it's not much higher is because I long ago learned to park 5 miles out of town and take the "T" to Fenway.
The answer has been our local minor (Eastern) league team, who are fun to watch and the tickets are more than reasonable - box seats are $10. And they've got Sam Adams on tap - nice and cold.
At home I can see the game.
Ha—interesting!
Sterile (often indoor) stadium which take away from the experience. Too much scoreboard music, advertisements, crowd cams, etc. which take away from the action on the field. And yes, too expensive.
how bout, at home i don't have to worry about hypothermia or getting murdered because of the team logo i'm wearing???
The best part of going out over staying home is that you don't have to clean up anything when the game is over. You just head out to the (free) parking lot, and drive through reasonable traffic back to home.
Just a thought.
Yes though can get too rowdy and loud.One place I go to has good food and cold PBR drafts are a buck.Tho young guy crowd were chugging Smirnoff Ice and chantkng Ice! VERY loud..had to move. OH WELL
Yes though can get too rowdy and loud.One place I go to has good food and cold PBR drafts are a buck.Tho young guy crowd were chugging Smirnoff Ice and chantkng Ice! VERY loud..had to move. OH WELL
I disagree. I have attended most of the USC Trojans' home games since 1973 and a lot of away games as well. If you watch it on TV, you don't see the pregame and halftime shows, the horse running down the sideline when the Trojans score a touchdown, and the lighting of the LA Coliseum's Olympic torch at the start of the fourth quarter as the band plays "Galop," aka "Cavalry Charge," from Rossini's "William Tell Overture." And you don't get the thrill of joining the crowd as they cheer touchdowns and boo bad calls.
Wild horses couldn’t get me to another NFL game,ever.While games are available,in HD,on channels I already get I’ll watch them.If they ever go pay-per-view or anything like that,I’m done.Watching 40 beer commercials and 10 Viagra commercials per game is as high a price as I’m willing to pay.Not a penny more.
The Texas-Oklahoma college football game isn’t bad either. :-)
Go Fisher Cats! Always go to first Sat home game of yr.Street parking $1 with smart meter
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