[Impala64ssa]

We were at a new “pub grub” restaurant that had a couple of NFL games on the big screens. I notice they try to avoid camera shots of the stands, when they did there were quite a few empty seats, and not just way up in the corners of the nosebleed sections. It reminded me of when I was a kid, before wrestling got big, matches were sparsely attended and typically held in small arenas such as the old Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, the Commack Arena on LI, the Teaneck Amrory, the Hesterly Armory in Tampa, etc, venues that had at most a 1500-2000 seat capacity. The cameras and audio equipment would be set up in such a way as to make those places appear noisier and more crowded than they actually were. I see the NFL trying to pull that same tactic in the near future.

[kearnyirish2]

They’ve done that for years with MLS games (soccer). The Red Bulls played in Giants Stadium here in NJ, and were filling maybe 10,000 of nearly 80,000 seats. Cameras were trained on the field, never panning the stands, and then they built a smaller stadium nearby and play there.

[varon]

The cameras and audio equipment would be set up in such a way as to make those places appear noisier and more crowded than they actually were. I see the NFL trying to pull that same tactic in the near future.

Something like this.....?