Posted on 10/30/2010 2:18:03 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at BillLawrenceOnline.Com ...
I think both the NFL and the NBA need to study just how the 2004-2005 season lockout effect set back the NHL for a long time. Remember, before that lockout, the NHL was a regular fixture on ESPN; that lockout resulted in the NHL being forced to a contract on Versus network on weekday nights and NBC on weekends. A combination NFL/NBA lockout in the fall of 2011 could end up with a complete scrambling of TV contracts starting the fall of 2012.
Completely agree
That guy needs to work on his fact checking, only 12 of the first 40 World Series went 7 or more (a few years it was best of 9 so not all those 7s were actually a full series), NHL expansion teams don’t actually tend to be good, and anybody shocked that Laker Celts was the NBA final just plain hasn’t been paying attention to the league those have been top teams for a while.
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!
The Mavericks/Heat Finals series ... Wade going to the line every time he came within the gravitational pull of a defender.
Nice call... Just a few years ago San Antonio was dominant in the NBA and the Thrashers and Blue Jackets have done a lot of strggling in the NHL.
4. Run commercials for a hybrid car.
Jacksonville Jaguars 1995 season 4 -12
Tennessee Oilers 1997 season 8-8 (of course they were already a NFL team)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1976 0 - 14
Seattle Seahawks 1976 season 2 -14
Cincinnati Bengals 1968 season 3 - 11
At least the NFL makes the fans suffer for a period of time :)
Now I watch old games on youtube. Much better than the current product.
World Series. He did say (and I did type) “televised”, so that’s what 1951 to 1990?
The other stuff is more recent happenings. NBA, NHL, etc.
Expansion teams, or league mergers. Jets v. Colts, is the classic example cited by conspiracy theorists about game manipulation.
When something becomes too complex, it eventually collapses
That applies to the NFL, IMHO
Not just the game itself, but also means TV, players, marketing, PR, etc....
We thought we'd go to a Chargers game and looked at the price. WOW! We could have paid for three baseball games for the price of the cheapest football tickets.
Too expensive for a team that threatens to leave every year unless they get a new stadium (and why would we want to pay even more for that little pleasure??)
That list makes the case for today’s manipulation to help new teams succeed.
I’d be surprised if there are enough people still living in Detroit to fill Tiger Stadium.
OK there were 20 in that gap. Of course that means nothing. I’ve read that guy’s website, there’s a lot of “look a statistical anomaly, clearly it’s FIXED”
And the “other stuff” is just plain BS. He says NHL expansion teams “do well” yet the most recent round of expansion teams have pretty much stunk, and the “youngest” expansion team to ever win a Cup was 7 years old (Flyers) and the most recent expansion team to win (the Ducks) had been in the league 14 years. Anybody at all familiar with the NBA has known the Lakers and Celtics have been near or at the top of their conferences for a while, they’re meeting was bound to happen.
SB 3 manipulated?! BWAJHAHQAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love conspiracy theorists. There was like one semi-questionable first down in the whole game, nobody disputes any of the calls except that one, and the tapes look like the refs probably got that one right. “Manipulated”, these people are funny.
Most recent NHL expansion:
Columbus Blue Jackets (2000) - 8 seasons under 500, 1 season AT 500, that’s the only season they made the playoffs, swept in first round
Minnesota Wild (2000) - 6 seasons under 500, 3 seasons over 500, with one trip to the where they got swept out, 2 more seasons they made the playoffs and lost in the first round
Atlanta Thrashers (1999) - 8 seasons under 500, 1 at 500, 1 over 500, playoffs once, swept in the first round
Nashville Predators (1997) - 6 seasons under 500, 1 at 500, 3 over, probably the most “successful” of these expansion teams with 5 playoff appearances, all first round losses.
If that’s “manipulating to help new teams succeed” I’d hate to see how they’d have fared on their own. Even the “successful” Predators didn’t make the playoffs until their 6th year.
Considering that they gave hundreds of thousands to the rats and a total of ZERO to pubs, this is music to my ears.
Besides, the less time people spend watching a bunch of overgrown, ill-behaved, overpaid, greedy, narcissitic lunks chasing a bag of air around, the better off we all are.
Well said.
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