thomasmnile wrote:
Monkey do you find yourself more interested in your former 'home' teams than the Florida franchises? I repeatedly hear those analyst guys say that's one reason Florida pro sports franchises lack loyal followings because everyone is from somewhere else.
Monkey do you find yourself more interested in your former 'home' teams than the Florida franchises? I repeatedly hear those analyst guys say that's one reason Florida pro sports franchises lack loyal followings because everyone is from somewhere else.
The analysts are probably close to correct - but if the teams would become competitive often, that may change as least to some degree of support locally.
Well, of course Boston is my heart and soul, but to qualify that. Born in Boston area, so always a home fan of those teams first.
But have lived all over the country -- LA, SF, Florida for extended periods. Much of my family lives in Buffalo, so can enjoy Bills games. Became a Dodger fan, went to lots of games, and Rams fan, and became a 49ers fan as well, and Raiders (Stabler, Plunkett) ... And have enjoyed other short-term home teams too. We lived in Jacksonville for five years, tried to root for Jags, but saw too many bone-head decisions in management ... etc.
Do my roots remain in Boston (Born there, 30+ years living there) and Calif teams, another 30+ years there) so I can split my "rooting" pretty much coast to coast and enjoy the games. But, when local teams continue to lack 'watch-ability', that is (in my book at least) play competitively even if not consistently champs, that's tough to engage.
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I probably won’t have an electric pickup to replace my Ram 2500, but if my 21 year old granddaughter has an RV in 30 years, it will likely be electric powered.
Likewise, the future of sports is changing and the business model spectator sports must adapt to is the Internet, not television.
Talking about tv ratings, revenue, huge crowds of the late 90s and mid-2000’s is old school. We sound like buggy whip salesmen when we talk about getting the audience back. We never had them. For a few years NASCAR was the “in” think. No longer. NASCAR and other racing missed the boat with young people.
People under 30 are much more likely to watch a summary of a race/ game on the Internet than the live event on TV.
Television is adapting. Anyone notice that new series last 8 to 12 episodes. That there are over half as many viewers who only watch the episodes over the Internet as watch TV.
The world, and technology which delivers the he content of sports is changing.
There is no solution to getting the old audience back. Too many of them/ us are dying. The move to an internet focus should have been in the planning stages 20 years ago. In a way we NASCAR fans are somewhat lucky. Our sport will survive the cost cutting in the next decade better than stick and all sports as the TV money gets smaller and smaller.
But a lot of people in NASCAR and other motor sports will lose their jobs, or have to accept greatly reduced salaries.
Full-Time 2014 - ????
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Frankly, one of the 'disappointing' things about my TT is that I can only get a 32" tv in it. No more wall space. I gave up a 50" when we went full-time and I resent it.
As far as I'm concerned - bigger is better when it comes to watching video, but apparently not so with the younger generation.
thomasmnile wrote:
Watched little of the race but were it not for a flat tire and wreck, Harvick would have made it interesting. 39th to 4th in 70 laps. Impressive.
Watched little of the race but were it not for a flat tire and wreck, Harvick would have made it interesting. 39th to 4th in 70 laps. Impressive.
Yeah it would have been fun. They were both on a mission.
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