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.
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2010 has also been one big fail for the Dallas Cowboys, too.
What I like is how the NFL is fooling themselves into thinking it’s the economy, its not. They are pricing themselves out of popularity with $50.00 parking, $10.00 12 oz draft beers, $8.00 hot dogs..etc. People eventually see that ‘the stadium experience’ is nothing but price gouging.
Frankly, I tuned out when they had a spanish broadcast at the end of September, followed by men wearing PINK for breast cancer awareness month. I like my football non-political, thank you very much, and find far greater satisfaction watching college football (anyone else watch the Oregon game Saturday?)
And when people go to Cowboys Stadium to watch a game, what do they do? (other than gag), they watch the big screen. Heck, I can do that at home.
A lot of that was the NHL's fault. They insisted on getting paid for broadcast rights, and ESPN decided it wasn't worth the cost. If they had just given away broadcast rights to ESPN, or even paid them to broadcast the games, the returns they would have gotten due to increased exposure would have more than paid for any lost revenue.
Once upon a time, ESPN and ESPN2 were regularly doing 4-5 NHL games a week, and showing doubleheaders (and sometimes even more, between the two stations) during the playoffs.
No kidding. But it’s over now.
But for the first couple of weeks, it was awfully irritating. They seem to have decreased the amount of pink accessories over the past couple of weeks.
I mostly agree with what you’ve said there, but I beg to differ in one respect. The NHL’s “decline” over the last 20 years has really been exaggerated. While free agency, the salary cap and expansion have diluted the talent and eliminated the whole idea of “team chemistry” in the NHL, it should also be noted that the flood of Europeans in the league since the early 1980s has really elevated the talent level.
As long as there is a point spread, there will always be fans.
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