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Fox Sports to use CGI crowds for NFL Games and other Sports events

It was kinda nice today watching the NASCAR race and being able to hear the announcers clearly.
 
Hmmm...

https://awfulannouncing.com/golf/nb...e-viewers-with-a-few-avoidable-decisions.html

That didn’t happen, for a variety of reasons. NBC elected to go with nearly a full complement of analysts, despite there only being one group to follow. And if the analysts are going to be on the broadcast, they’re going to talk, which means we lost a lot of the live mic component, or worse, had everyone talking over each other. It led to a shaky, disjointed feel at times.
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Not a golf fan, but that description didn't bode well for those that are golf fans watching.


I suspect the overnight ratings will be - decent.
 
Don CT said:
ESPN is showing Korean baseball and the league is pumping in artificial crowd noises.
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Asian team sports usually have an audience that chants, beats drums and waves banners (you also see this at some European soccer games as well). Those would be easier to emulate in comparison to the cheering of an American audience after a good or bad play.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
There are links to buy tickets on MLB.com for games at Dodger Stadium and Miller Park this coming week. You and I both know there will be no games in LA or Milwaukee this week, much less games with fans.

The NFL has not admitted that there will be no fans. My guess is that if the government will let teams have fans in Atlanta or Dallas or Tampa Bay, games will be played with fans in those cities.

But from what the governors and other officials have said, it looks very unlikely that LA or SF or NY or Chicago will permit sporting events with fans this fall. Many other places have not tipped their hand yet.
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If some cities allow fans (even if it's limited capacity), I wonder if some NFL teams (in fanless areas) would consider playing at least one "home" game in one of those cities, even if it isn't an NFL city.
 
ftballfan said:
If some cities allow fans (even if it's limited capacity), I wonder if some NFL teams (in fanless areas) would consider playing at least one "home" game in one of those cities, even if it isn't an NFL city.
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Not sure if the NFL has discussed this, but the NHL is concerned with the facility being up to league specifications. So as a result, they decided they would only play games in official NHL arenas.
 
TheBigA said:
Not sure if the NFL has discussed this, but the NHL is concerned with the facility being up to league specifications. So as a result, they decided they would only play games in official NHL arenas.
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I'm amazed that everyone seems to take for granted that there will be an NFL season while so many ifs surround the other leagues. Is it seen as "too big to fail"? Will it get special exemptions carved out -- by presidential executive order or act of Congress? -- so television networks get all the content that, in some cases, their financial survival depends on?

Again, I recall a segment from WFAN's Joe Benigno. Yesterday, he was talking with Ed Coleman, the station's Mets correspondent, who mentioned that MLB was especially determined to wrap up its season and postseason by the end of October to avoid having to cut everything short because of a "second wave" of COVID-19, which some are warning will cause major problems in the winter months when combined with seasonal flu. Shouldn't the NFL be concerned about having to abort in December or January, or is that not a concern because ... well, I don't know ... because the National Guard will be ordered into its cities if necessary to see that the games get played, America gets its Sunday and Monday entertainment, and the networks survive?
 
CTListener said:
I'm amazed that everyone seems to take for granted that there will be an NFL season while so many ifs surround the other leagues. Is it seen as "too big to fail"? Will it get special exemptions carved out -- by presidential executive order or act of Congress? -- so television networks get all the content that, in some cases, their financial survival depends on?
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The problem is nobody knows for sure about anything. It's hard for anyone to plan. If it's up to the president, he'll base his decision on what's best for his election.
 
CTListener said:
I'm amazed that everyone seems to take for granted that there will be an NFL season while so many ifs surround the other leagues.
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The main thing stopping the MLB and NBA from re-starting is reaching an agreement with their players unions. The NHL has a bigger problem because of the borders being closed with Canada and Europe (where presumably a large proportion of NHL players returned when the season was suspended).

The NFL has 3+ months to make a plan with their union before it changes their season at all. And there's not a reason to assume that a "second wave", should it materialize, would stop the NFL season, again because they have months to make contingency plans.
 
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