>>it’s the Bungles.<<
And the bucs.
I would like to see some middle of the road cities. You can bet that GB, Chi, Dal and a few others will be sold out no matter what.
But as an anecdotal note: I am here in Dal and for the fun of it have been monitoring Stub Hub sales in some sections of Jerryworld.
The trend has been for seats that were going for $1100 in week one are now down to about $600. I think demand is slowing a LOT.
But it isn’t scientific.
NY Jets tickets for home games against New England used to be a hot commodity. A couple of weeks before the game in the Meadowlands I saw someone offering four tickets for $5 above face value. I believe this was when the Jets were a surprising 3-2, as well. That’s not scientific but it can’t be good for the NFL.
Some folks just Like having Their Noses rubbed in A Steaming Pile of Sh-t!
Good Doggies!
Dallas is playing in Washington.
The beauty of that is the ‘haves’ will resent the ‘have nots’ (or resent them even more).
There are numerous franchises/owners content to cash a $1B check for TV revenue and to hell with the W-L record.
But as those give-up teams continue to bleed fans and ratings it will affect the elite franchises and they may not view Rozelle’s Peace Treaty as inviolate going forward.
The pro game is being fantasy’d, safety’d, and reviewed to death. Games are drudgery now from chickensh** offenses and playcalling to officials throwing flags when the wind shifts. Tackles above the waist have all but disappeared due to paranoia about headshots so legs and especially knees are snapping like chicken bones at a record pace. Ask a player if he’d like to get the wind knocked out of him for a quarter or if he’d like to undergo ACL surgery and rehab for a year.
Everyone associated with the NFL believes they are solely responsible for its success while denying they are causing its demise.
At the beginning of the year everybody thought Dallas was going to continue on their path from last year. Now they’re 3-3, haven’t been playing as well as their record, 2 of those losses were at home and it’s looking like they’re reverting to to the same form as most of the last 20 years.