Is TV ruining pro football?

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by mugginns

If they have 4 pm starts the people have had 3 more hours to drink I'm actually fairly sure this is why

I'm going to the Jets/Browns game this weekend (don't ask me why!) and it's a 4:15 game and the Meadowlands is opening up the parking lot seven hours before kickoff. The drunkenness is going to be taken to another level and it will be even uglier once the Jets lose. I hope my car makes it out of there in one piece.

[mvb34]

Quote: Originally Posted by mugginns

I agree with this, especially for the NBA. They start some games at 10:30. What the hell?

You do realize the reason for 10:30pm starts in the NBA is because the home team is a west coast team.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevytrev11

Why punish the people on the east coast by starting a game at 8:30PM? Why not start the game at 7:30PM? It's 4:30 on the west coast and as long as people get home by 6:00PM, they will plenty of time to see the most important part of the game. After living on the West Coast for the first 24 years of my life, I took it for granted how lucky we were to always be able to see an entire game. Now living in Texas, it's a chore to watch the end of any game into completion as they typically go to 11:00-12:00 at night.

That's screwing over west coast people who work though (if we're talking weekday baseball)....Basically saying "Sorry you're working and earning a living, but we care more about east coast sleep. Enjoy seeing just the 9th inning". I dunno, I dealt with living on the east coast just fine, and now that I'm on AZ time I'm getting used to everything being earlier. There's no real answer, someone gets screwed unless you just play weekend games in the middle of the day.

Attendance would also suffer if this was a home game out west. How can people get to a stadium by 4ish?

[mvb34]

Quote: Originally Posted by SPTO

As a Bills fan i've never known them to regularly have 4 PM starts even when Jim Kelly and co. were running wild. For some reason Ralph Wilson seems to love booking them at Rich/Ralph Wilson stadium at 1 PM exclusively.

The ownwers don't decided what time the game start, Its FOX and CBS who does.

[SPTO]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevytrev11

My main complaint about TV is just how long games drag out. Touchdown PAT Commercial Kickoff Commercial 1st 2nd 3rd 4th-Punt Commercial 1st down Timeout Commercial 2nd down Challenge Commercial A game that should take 3 hours max goes for 3.5 hours for timeout after timeout. If the game clock ran the way it should. After a punt or a kickoff the offense should have 40 seconds to get a play off...not two minutes for a TV timeout followed by 40 seconds.

This is my gripe as well. I think the best era in terms of TV coverage was the late 80s to about '94ish. Yes there were some pretty long games at times and commercialism was starting to creep in but it hadn't gotten to the absurdity that it has reached these days.

[muggins]

Quote: Originally Posted by mvb34

You do realize the reason for 10:30pm starts in the NBA is because the home team is a west coast team.

Yes

Starting at 6:30 means people can get out of work, grab a quick bite to eat and get to the game, and the game is on at 9:30 in the east, and people will actually watch it.

[ZB9]

TV and the million commercials are the main reason why the NFL will not be popular in Europe.

[ZB9]

Quote: Originally Posted by CookooForCocoa

*hugs DVR*

now that was a good invention