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Hockey on TNT

Kemosabe said:
It seems wrong that the finals were played in locales where exposure to ice is limited to cocktail glasses.
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Both teams have a good core fan base even if Florida has many NE transplants. Vegas has a goodly number of Californians who relocated from SoCal where they have had two hockey teams for many years.

I am surprised Florida did so well against their competition but nothing surprised me about Vegas. They are a good team, can play both physical and skilled and play very well within the club. I told everybody some weeks ago not to be surprised if the Knights took Lord Stanley's Cup. They just didn't take it....they dominated!
 
The Super Bowl is the only pro sports championship where TV ratings hold up regardless of the market size of the two participating teams.

TV ratings for the other three major sports championships (World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals) are highly dependent on market size of participating teams.

I would, as an example, believe that ratings for the just ended NBA Finals were down from 2022 because this year's two finalists (Denver and Miami) are smaller TV markets than last year's finalists (Boston and Golden State, the latter is in the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market).
 
landtuna said:
WHAT connection!?!?!?!? "Professional" wrestling is not a bonafide sport. It's always been junk TV and always will be.
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Just playing on the "Rock and Wrestling Connection" of the 1980s, when Vince McMahon and Dick Ebersole (a legitimate sports guy who knew entertainment when he saw it) hatched the involvement of Cyndi Lauper in a women's wrestling plot line and have WWF matches air on NBC. Spare me the contempt.
 
kwthom said:
Millions of dollars spent on talent would certainly debunk that statement.
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Billions of dollars are spent on street drugs yet not one person has ever said they were "medicine".

Contestants hitting each other with folding metal chairs has never been "sport" nor "entertainment".

Pro wrestling is violent fantasy; "good" guys versus "bad" guys - an athletic soap opera for buffoons who'd be better at hurling knuckle sandwiches at the local Do Drop Inn.

And, although I'm a big fan of Laupers "Time After Time" she is the musical equivalent of Evel Knievel.
 
Don CT said:
The NFL is a year round sport now.
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No it is not - at least to the public audience. Living in a city that has an NFL franchise the only time the NFL is in the news is after the Stupid Bowl and that largely due to players (or former players) being pinched for bad behavoir . A bare mention when the Pro Bowl is played and the player draft if you have ESPN as your only cable provider.

Except for the non-Stupid-Bowl winner nobody seems to care until the arrival of the meaningless pre-season "games".

The NFL does seem to take the viewer numbers trophy but much of that contains gamblers and hordes of women who can't get enough of the endless SB commercials (which are hyped as much as the "big" game and have similar questionable quality).
 
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