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Considering this has been their model for 27 years at a minimum, goes beyond "current leadership" in how they approach their model, one which they have made very successful. Other leagues are in a lot worse shape with their distribution deals and revenues.....just pointing that out.
Dealing with Carolina fans alone would steer me to Cleveland.
You are 100% right that the NFL has been successful with its model. But I doubt that it's successful BECAUSE of this model.
Well, when you consider the NFL was clear number 2 for many years and made some smart decisions, especially on the television side....will agree to disagree.
Is there a stigma about Carolina fans? I’ve not heard issues with them as far as not wanting to coach there.
They moved from #2 to #1 decades ago for a number of reasons, television being the primary one no doubt. But I think the model that they used in the 1970s and 80s seems very out of date for 2020.
From a consumer perspective...yes. From a financial perspective, they could have changed it months ago and didn't...because the $$$ didn't make it so.Until that flips, you will continue to see a patchwork approach. Let's not forget that what you want to see is not helping MLB, NBA, etc. Mark Cuban has been hot about this of late. The ESPN guys as well....all this money spent on all these rights and yet social media delivers 5 minute full highlights within 30 minutes of a game's completion...why even bother wasting 2 or 3 hours watching a game anymore? The media companies are asking why they are writing big checks to the sports leagues if they are devaluing the content in the process....excellent questions. They cannot have it both ways, and that's one of the fun rubs going on in the sports television discussions. Technology can be a God send, it can also cannibalize and destroy your profits and erode your loyal fans in exchange for a bunch of fans that kind of notice / have a limited attention span. Lots of interesting lessons being learned right now.
It's more about their inability to stick to the team. They have a bad reputation of letting tons of other fans buy their tickets, creating a not so friendly home field advantage. There are worse teams for that...Rams, Chargers, Cowboys even. They commit the reverse sin of not traveling very well.Carolina's fans typically ranked 23rd to 28th in surveys we receive from various sources / consultant shops. The only fans that typically rank worse are Cardinals, Chargers, Dolphins, Falcons, Bucs, and Jags. A few others come in and out of that ranking. Notice a lot of these are from one part of the country...the NFL is second to college football in many of these parts. Fans are often transplants from other cities.Top fan bases are Packers, Steelers, Chiefs, Eagles, etc.
I honestly have no idea how anyone watches the NFL without the ticket.
Seattle taking that delay was brutal.
How does that PI not get booth reviewed?
I agree...Terry McCauly does too and said so live...same Terry who said the OSU call switch last night was so wrong. Terry two for two the last few nights on two huge calls....unfortunately the teams impacted got hurt in both cases.
The call switch was tough because you had to see it in real time not super dooper slo mo. Hell slow it down enough and you could make it look like he had it for however many seconds you slow it down to. Real time, it was bang bang and that’s not control
Packers could have been the ugliest 1 seed in history
The same one you were saying isn't an NFL ref anymore a couple hours ago? Weird.