Week six of the NFL continued the trend of poor attendance. http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...eral-nearly-empty-stadiums-fans-leave-league/
The NFL, and all sports leagues, have elements of a Ponzi scheme. A big part of the attraction is the fact that everyone you know is also heavily invested in the success of "your" team. Game tickets are scare and highly coveted. There used to be articles about season tickets being fought over in divorces or treated as valuable assets in estates. The Redskins used to claim their waiting list was years long. These days, not so much.
The key to the value of teams is the TV contracts, which assume ever increasing viewership. When that chart line turns down, a lot of financial models suddenly fall apart. In fact, we can predict a snowball effect. As viewership goes down, the league beings to get the taint of being stale, no longer exciting, kind of last century. What advertiser wants to be associated with that?
I think it is inaccurate to blame all of this on the kneeling morons. The league had gone a bit stale before this season. They blamed declines on things like the presidential race. No doubt cordcutting played a role, hence their desperate attempts to show games on social media platforms. Right, that will make it all ok.
It's not just football. NASCAR, which probably has a pretty big fan base overlap, has visibly declined in recent years. Some of the reasons sound familiar. Boring races, too many races, big money drivers with whom fans no longer identify and suffocating PC imposed to placate national advertisers.
The team formerly known as the San Diego Chargers moved to LA and play at the StubHub stadium, a small soccer venue. They are drawing less than Texas high school teams. Violence, drunkenness and general misbehavior at stadiums deter many fans, not to mention astronomical process for everything from tickets to parking to food and beer. All to pay the salaries of a bunch of thugs who despise you and everything you stand for.
Maybe they should appoint Bernie Madoff as Commissioner.
Bradley Wilson
@brad_gohornsbkw
The NFL, and all sports leagues, have elements of a Ponzi scheme. A big part of the attraction is the fact that everyone you know is also heavily invested in the success of "your" team. Game tickets are scare and highly coveted. There used to be articles about season tickets being fought over in divorces or treated as valuable assets in estates. The Redskins used to claim their waiting list was years long. These days, not so much.
The key to the value of teams is the TV contracts, which assume ever increasing viewership. When that chart line turns down, a lot of financial models suddenly fall apart. In fact, we can predict a snowball effect. As viewership goes down, the league beings to get the taint of being stale, no longer exciting, kind of last century. What advertiser wants to be associated with that?
I think it is inaccurate to blame all of this on the kneeling morons. The league had gone a bit stale before this season. They blamed declines on things like the presidential race. No doubt cordcutting played a role, hence their desperate attempts to show games on social media platforms. Right, that will make it all ok.
It's not just football. NASCAR, which probably has a pretty big fan base overlap, has visibly declined in recent years. Some of the reasons sound familiar. Boring races, too many races, big money drivers with whom fans no longer identify and suffocating PC imposed to placate national advertisers.
The team formerly known as the San Diego Chargers moved to LA and play at the StubHub stadium, a small soccer venue. They are drawing less than Texas high school teams. Violence, drunkenness and general misbehavior at stadiums deter many fans, not to mention astronomical process for everything from tickets to parking to food and beer. All to pay the salaries of a bunch of thugs who despise you and everything you stand for.
Maybe they should appoint Bernie Madoff as Commissioner.
Bradley Wilson
@brad_gohornsbkw
