What's hurting ESPN is cordcutters who rarely or never watched ESPN but were giving ESPN money every month in their subscription package. Nothing to do with politics. Everything to do with economics.
Been saying that for years but I'm not self-promoting or anything.I'm wondering if college football and the big three professional sports is heading toward a burst of the bubble as well?
I look at MLB and most games the stands seem to be barely occupied. Yet their players have contracts in the hundreds of millions. Money must be coming from corporate side. Ticket prices for both NFL and CFB have gotten to the point where the average Joe can't afford to go.Been saying that for years but I'm not self-promoting or anything.
I've been on that rant before too. It is ridiculous. The real estate money is just deprecating each other with new development. There are only a small handful of great locations. The rest want to be the newest and nicest. Eventually Tuscaloosa will be nothing but open air malls, restaurants, and large apartment/condo complexes. Most of the restaurants will be a year from going under. Most of the malls will be half full. Most of the apt/condos will be unused.Speaking of bubbles, I shake my head at the real estate every time I drive through Tuscaloosa.
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MLB has 81 home games and lots of TV money. Totally agree on ticket prices.I look at MLB and most games the stands seem to be barely occupied. Yet their players have contracts in the hundreds of millions. Money must be coming from corporate side. Ticket prices for both NFL and CFB have gotten to the point where the average Joe can't afford to go.
I have empathy for the families impacted. I hope they all land on their feet, though some will be missed (by me) more than others.
Ravich was on there for years, plus he sounded (to me) like John Saunders which was always a bit comforting (big Saunders fan)Jay Crawford
Karl Ravich
Hannah Storm
The list is full of significant people.
Please don't promote any ideas of making the college game shorter. They'll just add more commercials to take up the time. It's already happened once when they changed the rules a few years ago.I think its possible. I doubt all sports fall off at the same time but football could be in trouble in the not too distant future. They need to adapt by making the game safer and shorter.
DFW says hello! It's ridiculous out here right now!Speaking of bubbles, I shake my head at the real estate every time I drive through Tuscaloosa.
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Same here - all three.According to this thread I am doing it all wrong..lol. We have Charter cable, plus I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. :biggrin:
I am not sure I could ever cut the cable out though. (We have a lot of shows we watch) My Charter bill is half the internet and half the cable. So, it wouldn't save me that much.
Not true, at least with Mom & Pop stores. The first thing local businessmen do is tell their cashiers not to discuss Religion, Politics or Sports with the customers. In fact I know mini-mart that went out of business because the cashier/owner brow beat all her customers with her political views. They were distant relatives of mine. I was one of the first to quit them and also one of the first to cut the cable cord. I don't need a finger in my face when I watch sports.This is all about cable -cutters and plummeting subscribership. As in any business venture, eventually the laws of mathematics take over.
Yeah i don't even watch espn channel unless a game is on. The talking heads don't provide much substance anymoreimo, this is typical of a large originally growing corporation, expanding with bigger contracts, and having to pay long time employees, retirement, benefits, and raises. there are many jocks out there that will take less money and be a comedy on espn. they payment to major sports is killing them with the drop of subscribers. maybe they ought to set term limits for employees. the amount of knowledge and personality is really dropping.