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Timby posted:An additional ~$2.7 billion on top of the ~$5.5 billion or so Fox is already committed to, when viewership is down across the board, is a hell of a bet. Ratings for everything are in a tailspin. I think the assumption is that the live and immediate nature of sports means that even as ratings for football and other sports go down, they will decline less than traditional TV and their marginal value over other types of TV will increase. Its still an insane bet because TV is dying and any bet right now is probably bad, but I see the logic there.
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Football ratings have declined but they’re still the most sure fire thing.
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You know what else is a sure fire? Manure.
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Feb 4, 2018 09:34
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Deadspin has a couple great collection of calls from all over the world on two plays from last night's super bowl: Eagles trick play at the end of the 2nd quarter The strip sack late in the game that effectively sealed it Kevin Harlan's calls of both are phenomenal, but special shout out to Australia's Gerard Whateley, who had an all-timer of a call on the strip-sack, at about the 1:53 mark.
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Feb 5, 2018 20:04
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DJExile posted:Deadspin has a couple great collection of calls from all over the world on two plays from last night's super bowl: I like how Zolak is completely silent on the Pats call of the fumble until he murmurs "are we sure" as it cuts out
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Feb 5, 2018 20:25
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Rating details for the super bowl are outquote:NBC announced Monday that the Eagles’ 41-33 victory over the Patriots earned a 47.4 overnight rating, a number that’s difficult to parse. On one hand, that is the lowest figure for a Super Bowl since 2010, despite a thrilling game. On the other hand, it was down only 3 percent from last year and did not dip at the same rate as the regular season and the rest of the playoffs. Per NBC, the Super Bowl out-rated all previous postseason games by 143 percent, the largest margin in Super Bowl history.
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Feb 5, 2018 22:44
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exploded mummy posted:I like how Zolak is completely silent on the Pats call of the fumble until he murmurs "are we sure" as it cuts out I'm trying to picture Australians showing widespread interets in the NFL and it's kinda tough, given how much they love cricket, soccer and Aussie Rules rugby. Heck, I'd think even basketball and baseball might have bigger footholds down there. Well, maybe not baseball.
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Feb 5, 2018 23:21
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm trying to picture Australians showing widespread interets in the NFL and it's kinda tough, given how much they love cricket, soccer and Aussie Rules rugby. Heck, I'd think even basketball and baseball might have bigger footholds down there. Australia has a professional baseball league
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Feb 6, 2018 00:05
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MLB played games in Australia not long ago
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To be fair, I've never listened to Gerry and Dennis' show, but since they host sports talk radio, the chance that they are dumb is pretty good. Also amazed to hear a a presumably homer-ish Pats fan acknowledge that they get calls
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Feb 6, 2018 01:15
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R.D. Mangles posted:Australia has a professional baseball league Not only that every major state have big grassroots leagues playing all year (I played in winter because I'd rather be wet and cold than die in 40 degree weather). El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm trying to picture Australians showing widespread interets in the NFL and it's kinda tough, given how much they love cricket, soccer and Aussie Rules rugby. Heck, I'd think even basketball and baseball might have bigger footholds down there. It's not mainstream, but the superbowl is on mainstream network TV every year and has for years. The Superbowl used to be this cult thing that they'd show on TV and after a while it just became something that's on TV. Also, there are 3 games each week on smaller station. I'm not saying everybody is into it but Australians like sport and more sport is more fun.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:To be fair, I've never listened to Gerry and Dennis' show, but since they host sports talk radio, the chance that they are dumb is pretty good. that's Dennis and Callahan and Minihane, though Dennis is semi-retired because of alcoholism and poo poo like this quote:Dennis no longer hosts Dennis and Callahan on WEEI, but he’ll always be indelibly associated with that show due to an incident that took place when he did, at a time when he was able to show his true colors. In 2003, he and co-host Gerry Callahan were suspended for making this joke referencing Metco, an inner-city student busing program: https://twitter.com/JohnDennisWEEI/status/830989253974818818
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Well gee it didn't take long for these idiots to turn on Bill Belichick did it? Nevermind that he built five super bowl winning teams in a period of near unrivaled parity. The Pats won 5 of the last 17 Super Bowls. The other 12 were won by 9 separate teams with the Giants and Steelers each winning two in that period. But sure, gently caress the guy responsible for building those teams.
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Feb 6, 2018 14:24
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Akileese posted:Well gee it didn't take long for these idiots to turn on Bill Belichick did it? Nevermind that he built five super bowl winning teams in a period of near unrivaled parity. The Pats won 5 of the last 17 Super Bowls. The other 12 were won by 9 separate teams with the Giants and Steelers each winning two in that period. But sure, gently caress the guy responsible for building those teams. its easy to win when you cheat
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Feb 6, 2018 14:30
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The super bowl is very likely to dip back below 100 million viewers next year, and seemed on pace to this year before the 2nd halfquote:If the game hadn’t been close, and viewership numbers would have peaked around halftime for Justin Timberlake, then we very well could have seen the NFL dip back below 100 million viewers this year. Luckily for the league, that didn’t happen this time. But right now, it just seems to be a matter of time before it does. lmao it was only because it was an ABC/ESPN simulcast but still... DJExile fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Feb 6, 2018 |
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Feb 6, 2018 15:55
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought those "virtual" player models NBC used when comparing stats looked like they were from Madden 2002.
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Mahoning posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought those "virtual" player models NBC used when comparing stats looked like they were from Madden 2002.
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Feb 6, 2018 18:15
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DJExile posted:The super bowl is very likely to dip back below 100 million viewers next year, and seemed on pace to this year before the 2nd half This says a lot more about TV generally than it does football. https://twitter.com/mulvihill79/status/960911972949807104
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Feb 6, 2018 18:23
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The NFL just sold some lovely Thursday night games for $550 million a season and that doesn't even include the $50-$100 million they'll get on top of that for streaming rights.
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Feb 7, 2018 03:01
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How quickly did Boxing fade to irrelevance? Is that going to be the road map for the NFL?
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algebra testes posted:How quickly did Boxing fade to irrelevance? Is that going to be the road map for the NFL? Not that fast overall, took 20 years to really decline.
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Boxing's fade was in no small part due to how just cartoonishly corrupt it had become between directors/officials and promoters. Like yeah, lol the NFL loves [insert major market/powerful owner's team] and all that, but it was a whole different level in boxing. Prize fights were either flat out fixed by officials, or you saw nobodies being fed to the fighters they wanted to promote (something boxing and MMA still does, to be sure), boxers themselves were far less marketable, and while boxing itself can be awesome, I think in the states it became far too reliant on giant heavyweights that just leaned on one-another for 12 rounds. I think taste for PPV events soured as well, since boxing on cable or network TV was pretty uncommon, but other sports were getting more and more coverage and were far more accessible. To be sure, the long term health issues were another factor, it wasn't hard to see how far and fast Ali was declining.
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Football also has a gigantic infrastructure, from high school and earlier probably it's a money maker in many parts of the country. It'll evolve (somehow) or die off but it's gonna take a hell of a lot longer than boxing.
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DJExile posted:Boxing's fade was in no small part due to how just cartoonishly corrupt it had become between directors/officials and promoters. Like yeah, lol the NFL loves [insert major market/powerful owner's team] and all that, but it was a whole different level in boxing. Prize fights were either flat out fixed by officials, or you saw nobodies being fed to the fighters they wanted to promote (something boxing and MMA still does, to be sure), boxers themselves were far less marketable, and while boxing itself can be awesome, I think in the states it became far too reliant on giant heavyweights that just leaned on one-another for 12 rounds. I think taste for PPV events soured as well, since boxing on cable or network TV was pretty uncommon, but other sports were getting more and more coverage and were far more accessible. The PPV's were also crazy expensive for poor value, the Tyson/McNeely fight was 50 bucks
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The PPV's were also crazy expensive for poor value, the Tyson/McNeely fight was 50 bucks Yeah as I recall most of the prize fights had really underwhelming undercards but it's been decades now.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The PPV's were also crazy expensive for poor value, the Tyson/McNeely fight was 50 bucks Those last two lovely Mayweather fights cost $100 and they made a ton of money off of them
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ElwoodCuse posted:Those last two lovely Mayweather fights cost $100 and they made a ton of money off of them Floyd is a special case. People have spent more than a decade buying his fights solely because they hope he loses. He's for real an rear end which helps, but he's also brilliant at promoting himself as an rear end to encourage this behavior. He's also really damned good at boxing. Adrien Broner tried to take the same career path but he wasn't good enough to make it work and now he's kind of a joke.
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Yeah Floyd is the combination of a drat near perfect defensive boxer with a great promoter and someone who's smart enough to know to pick his fights against people that don't have a prayer against him. That all came to a peak in the McGregor fight. There's nothing flashy at all about him but he basically never gets hurt and everyone wants to see him get his rear end kicked. The only person that's come anywhere close was Marcos Maidana.
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exploded mummy posted:he's the boxing equivalent of the Honkey Tonk Man lmao that works way better than it should E: just to bring this thread back to broadcasting, Joe Girardi will be an MLB Network analyst quote:In a sense, Girardi’s return to TV completes a three-way trade between MLB Network, ESPN and the Yankees. First, the Yankees hired Aaron Boone away from ESPN to be their new manager. Then ESPN poached Matt Vasgersian from MLB Network (and Fox), to call its Sunday Night Baseball package alongside Jessica Mendoza and fellow newcomer Alex Rodriguez. Finally, MLB Network brought about Girardi, who had of course been deposed by the Yankees. DJExile fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 17:42
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Dan Shulman was probably the best national PBP guy for baseball. It's a shame he stepped down. What on earth is he doing since he's not doing SNB? I know he wanted to spend more time with his family but is he still doing college basketball? Any college football?
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I hadn't realized Vasgersian had gone to ESPN. He's really good.
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Mahoning posted:Dan Shulman was probably the best national PBP guy for baseball. It's a shame he stepped down. What on earth is he doing since he's not doing SNB? I know he wanted to spend more time with his family but is he still doing college basketball? Any college football? He does college basketball. I was about to say more but realized I was thinking of Dave Pasch.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Those last two lovely Mayweather fights cost $100 and they made a ton of money off of them Yes but they were marquee matchups that went a reasonable length of time. Mcneely's trainer stopped the fight in the first round. And the Mayweather fights are an outlier, and at the same time represent the problem with boxing: Mayweather can charge that knowing full well it'll be a long time before a fight this big comes along in the sport. I also feel like one of the reasons he's retiring is that nobody will buy a 3rd fight since there's nobody that can beat him. If he were more vulnerable, maybe, but the dude is one of the best fighters ever.
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jesus loving christ it's still 2 goddamn hours long quote:While a Turner spokesperson would not comment on the show’s specific format, they said the bracket reveal would be in the front portion of the two-hour show this year. hahahaha bullshit DJExile fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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exploded mummy posted:he's the boxing equivalent of the Honkey Tonk Man I was going to say early Ric Flair, but yeah this works really well too.
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DJExile posted:hahahaha bullshit as if it's not going to leak on the internet before the show even starts
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