At this point, everyone is guessing. Some of the guesses are more educated than others, but about the only thing one can 100 percent accurately predict about four months or even one month from now is the sunrise and sunset.
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At this point, everyone is guessing. Some of the guesses are more educated than others, but about the only thing one can 100 percent accurately predict about four months or even one month from now is the sunrise and sunset.
I just don't see training camps starting on time. That will have to push the season back.
Here's what the article says about that:
The league is evaluating when players can reenter team facilities. The NFL and NFLPA have agreed to keep buildings closed until every state in which a team resides lifts its stay-at-home mandate. Teams are prepared to conduct offseason workouts and June minicamps virtually.
must be as I see in the guide on the 16th is a replay of the 140th Preakness with description as "American Pharoah, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Victor Espinoza, won the Kentucky Derby and is the 4-5 morning-line favorite for the 1 3/16-mile race;"
Mini Camps are not the same as training camp that requires the teams be together. If They don't start training camp on time in July, they won't have enough time to start the season in September. Plus I don't think the owners want to play to empty stadiums. They need that gate revenue. They will delay just to be able to fill seats.
Meanwhile, thousands have packed the little ballpark in Jinotega, Nicaragua, to watch their hometown baseball team take on Boer of Managua, the Yankees of Nicaraguan baseball. fans crammed behind the screen behind home plate, only one or two masks in sight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlTgQRSq-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlTgQRSq-c
The TV money exceeds the gate. If they wait to fill the seats, it may be next year. Better to make something than nothing.
Plus, they're holding on to advance ticket money anyway.
I just found out less than a million people watched the Super Bowl. That's got to be a record low. Whichever game it was, I guess it wasn't that good a game to begin with.
From CNBC following the 2019 Superbowl broadcast:
"The 2019 Super Bowl was watched by the fewest people in 11 years, according to preliminary ratings figures from research firm Nielsen.The CBS broadcast of Sunday’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots was watched by about 98.2 million people, Nielsen said late Monday. Those figures are the lowest since 2008, when 97.5 million tuned in."
That is considerably greater than one million... by about 98 times!
The Chimp may have been referring to the old Super Bowl that some Fox stations aired this weekend.
Fox needs to stop making their sports repeats optional. Some stations like WHBQ in Memphis and WJKT in Jackson TN are using it as a convenient excuse to fill the time with infomercials instead, and that definitely has to be hurting the ratings if too many other stations are doing the same thing.
Yes, that was the old Super Bowl aired on Saturday. You should have made your reference clear when you posted about the Super Bowl only attracting 1 million viewers. You wrote it as if you were citing figures for the Chiefs-49ers game played back in February.
Scott Van Pelt says the obvious: They're just making it up at ESPN without live sports:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/05/08/espn-scott-van-pelt-no-sports-orig.cnn-business
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/05/08/espn-scott-van-pelt-no-sports-orig.cnn-business
ESPN may regret having no stake in major European soccer. Germany's Bundesliga returns this weekend, with England's Premier League likely to be back at the end of the month or early June. Fox has rights to the former, NBC to the latter. They may be a niche interest in the US, but the live games probably would attract more eyeballs than old ("classic") games, countdown shows or more talk about the upcoming NFL season.
I wonder how the Korean baseball games are doing. The time slot is awful, and unfortunately, the first four games chosen for telecasting have all been one-sided snorefests.
To be honest, I'd rather watch the classic games.
Last weekend's rebroadcast of the 2011 NBA Finals Dallas v. Miami was a little jarring to watch. It seemed like there were strobe flashes that lit up the floor every few seconds, but it didn't look like it was part of the original program. I can only speculate that may have been problems with the recording.
Anyone have more details?
Anyone have more details?
I hate watching games that I know who's going to win and how. That eliminates all Super Bowls, World Series clinchers, NBA finals, etc. for me. I'd probably skip the Bundesliga, but I do follow the Premier League and would watch that live instead of having to see Michael Jordan team up with a friendly refereeing crew and the NBA behind-the-scenes money men to win another championship for the Bulls with another skillfully choreographed dramatic finish for the home fans and try to convince myself yet again that it was on the level.
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