(11-19-2019, 10:38 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(11-19-2019, 12:04 AM)mikesez Wrote: I just don't see how you can improve the game day experience without changing the timing of the games.
If you know the high temps in September are above 90F, schedule the game in the evening.
Do fewer and shorter timeouts.

The current crop of owners, both NFL owners and media owners, will never do either thing.

However, if there was a little changing of the guard, a few good things would start to happen quickly.

Suppose Jeff Bezos steps up and decides to outbid CBS and Fox for their packages? He decides he can make more money off of subscriptions and is open to reducing the ads.  Owners may decide reducing the length of the game will increase ticket sales.

But unless the current model is majorly disrupted it can't happen.

Soccer manages to do a full 90 minute period without commercial breaks, you could very easily get away with split/reduced screen during downtimes between plays and get ads on screen without full stoppages of play for minutes at a time. Nascar and football have begun experimenting with it, but not for a full broadcast.
The only other option the owners have is to force games to be tape delayed, so that broadcasters can fill ads in the negative space between plays, but then the TV deals will likely reduce in value.  It's a catch-22.

Maybe owners just bite the bullet, and sell games for less? Do you make more selling 30000 tickets at $50 a pop, or 60000 at $25 a pop? Consider that the customer base for parking, concessions, merchandise potentially double under the second option. And, if the tickets are selling out, now you can start exploring PSLs to increase revenue, too!

I don't understand soccer as well as football, and I don't know as many of the players' names, but even so, seeing an MLS game in Orlando is more enjoyable than seeing a Jaguars game in Jacksonville.  There's shade.  There are no pointless breaks in the action.  It takes less of your time.  You don't feel tired on the drive home.

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