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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 776958" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>Football used to have fewer and shorter commercial breaks. Advertisers and TV contracts have pushed them to be bigger and more frequent. To me, the gameday experience at a Falcons game is just waiting for something to happen. It seems like pro football is going in the opposite direction of a good gameday experience—and gameday experience is the direction most colleges need to move to improve.</p><p></p><p>NFL football has less action in a game than Major League Baseball, but I hear more complaints about how baseball is too slow and losing a generation of fans. We’re watching more of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman than we are of football. We’re just seeing 11-15 minutes of actual game play in a three hour game. If it weren’t for instant replay, we wouldn’t be seeing that much football.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.forbes.com/sites/davecaldwell/2017/10/25/the-nfl-has-trimmed-the-length-of-its-games-well-a-little-bit/?sh=4f5d701948cc[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-football-is-even-in-a-football-broadcast/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>The NBA tries more than other major sports to build up the gameday experience, but they seem to direct the fans more than letting them be fans, in the same way having an organist play “charge” is anything but spontaneous. MLS games at least seem to be led by the fans.</p><p></p><p>It’s not fair to expect Stansbury to create a gameday experience—that’s lightning that you catch in a bottle—but it’s something he’s trying to do. Enabling fans—especially students—to have fun at the games and be part of the experience themselves. I was at Tech in the 80s as we were doing the opposite—taking banners and flip card sections away from the fans and making Grant Field more sterile.</p><p></p><p>If Stansbury can move the needle a little each year in being more fan friendly, maybe we can get somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 776958, member: 282"] Football used to have fewer and shorter commercial breaks. Advertisers and TV contracts have pushed them to be bigger and more frequent. To me, the gameday experience at a Falcons game is just waiting for something to happen. It seems like pro football is going in the opposite direction of a good gameday experience—and gameday experience is the direction most colleges need to move to improve. NFL football has less action in a game than Major League Baseball, but I hear more complaints about how baseball is too slow and losing a generation of fans. We’re watching more of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman than we are of football. We’re just seeing 11-15 minutes of actual game play in a three hour game. If it weren’t for instant replay, we wouldn’t be seeing that much football. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.forbes.com/sites/davecaldwell/2017/10/25/the-nfl-has-trimmed-the-length-of-its-games-well-a-little-bit/?sh=4f5d701948cc[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-football-is-even-in-a-football-broadcast/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/[/URL] The NBA tries more than other major sports to build up the gameday experience, but they seem to direct the fans more than letting them be fans, in the same way having an organist play “charge” is anything but spontaneous. MLS games at least seem to be led by the fans. It’s not fair to expect Stansbury to create a gameday experience—that’s lightning that you catch in a bottle—but it’s something he’s trying to do. Enabling fans—especially students—to have fun at the games and be part of the experience themselves. I was at Tech in the 80s as we were doing the opposite—taking banners and flip card sections away from the fans and making Grant Field more sterile. If Stansbury can move the needle a little each year in being more fan friendly, maybe we can get somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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