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<blockquote data-quote="Foxyg" data-source="post: 277198" data-attributes="member: 1508"><p>I went to the bowl game. Living in the Savannah area, it was actually closer than a home game at Tech for me. Nevertheless, attendance at home games for all but the most elite programs is down across the board too. Every game is on TV. The hassle of parking, sitting next to someone you don't like and getting gouged for every nickel they can squeeze out of you with concessions, seat licenses, etc., takes away from the experience. It gets harder to justify when you have to travel a great distance, you have kids, and your disposable income isn't as much as it once was. This is especially true when you can sit in your own home, eat your own food and go to your own bathroom for no money. </p><p></p><p>In a lot of respects I view the bowl games as simply live programming paid for by ESPN. With the advent of DVRs, sports programming is the only live TV that people will watch and tolerate the commercials. Consequently advertisers are willing to pony up serious dough. I don't think that assessment is just reserved for college football. Any more, the gait at the actual game is beside the point. Hell, you'll watch premier league games in England and there will be empty seats, but they're rolling in the dough through TV contracts. What will be interesting is whether the ESPNs of the world will continue to pay this much money for the broadcasting rights when they're getting squeezed by DIRECTV and cable subscribers with the advent of Netflix, etc. such that people who don't want to pay for sports programming don't have to through bundling, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Foxyg, post: 277198, member: 1508"] I went to the bowl game. Living in the Savannah area, it was actually closer than a home game at Tech for me. Nevertheless, attendance at home games for all but the most elite programs is down across the board too. Every game is on TV. The hassle of parking, sitting next to someone you don't like and getting gouged for every nickel they can squeeze out of you with concessions, seat licenses, etc., takes away from the experience. It gets harder to justify when you have to travel a great distance, you have kids, and your disposable income isn't as much as it once was. This is especially true when you can sit in your own home, eat your own food and go to your own bathroom for no money. In a lot of respects I view the bowl games as simply live programming paid for by ESPN. With the advent of DVRs, sports programming is the only live TV that people will watch and tolerate the commercials. Consequently advertisers are willing to pony up serious dough. I don't think that assessment is just reserved for college football. Any more, the gait at the actual game is beside the point. Hell, you'll watch premier league games in England and there will be empty seats, but they're rolling in the dough through TV contracts. What will be interesting is whether the ESPNs of the world will continue to pay this much money for the broadcasting rights when they're getting squeezed by DIRECTV and cable subscribers with the advent of Netflix, etc. such that people who don't want to pay for sports programming don't have to through bundling, etc. [/QUOTE]
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