[3aidlillahi]

Being at Uni, I get to go to sports games for free. I've never been to an expensive pro game though (been to some Pirates baseball games). Even at the game, I spend most of the time watching the big TV because it has better picture and is closer. I don't really get the mystique of watching it in real life.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd I'd do this so I can sit a huge distance from the field on a cold seat on a rainy day just to watch my team lose badly?

[vision-master]

How about R&R concerts. For $20 I can watch Mick Jagger from 10ft away while sporting a one-hitter. Need a brew? Just hit the pause button.........

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('3aidlillahi', 'B')eing at Uni, I get to go to sports games for free. I've never been to an expensive pro game though (been to some Pirates baseball games). Even at the game, I spend most of the time watching the big TV because it has better picture and is closer. I don't really get the mystique of watching it in real life. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd I'd do this so I can sit a huge distance from the field on a cold seat on a rainy day just to watch my team lose badly?

[mefistofeles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow about R&R concerts. For $20 I can watch Mick Jagger from 10ft away while sporting a one-hitter. Need a brew? Just hit the pause button.........

[retiredguy]

Pro football is extremely predictable and dull. Just listen closely to the broadcasters sometime.

For the past twenty years, a group of us having been going out to eat on Super Bowl Sunday. Don't even need a reservation.

[dorlomin]

Im expecting a few of the English football (soccer) teams to fold over the next couple of years, it is increadibly expensive for people to go to the games and the pay per view will like take a hit as well as people economise. A few of them have been bought out in highly leveraged buyouts where rolling over the comercial paper could be problematic (Manchester United for example) and others are owend by international owners who may be finding things a tad tighter than they were expecting.

However I dont think it will be the end of professional sport, not by a long chalk. The holding companies can go bankrupt, players lose contracts and all that but people will still need to be entertained and it was not that long ago that UK professional footballers were on wages only 5 or 6 times higher than that of well paid artisans.

I more of a 'gloomer' than a 'doomer' and professional sport carried on through the great depression, the argentinian debt crisis, the collapse of the soviet union and the russian debt crisis.....

Its one half of bread and circuses.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'I')m expecting a few of the English football (soccer) teams to fold over the next couple of years, it is increadibly expensive for people to go to the games and the pay per view will like take a hit as well as people economise. A few of them have been bought out in highly leveraged buyouts where rolling over the comercial paper could be problematic (Manchester United for example) and others are owend by international owners who may be finding things a tad tighter than they were expecting.
However I dont think it will be the end of professional sport, not by a long chalk. The holding companies can go bankrupt, players lose contracts and all that but people will still need to be entertained and it was not that long ago that UK professional footballers were on wages only 5 or 6 times higher than that of well paid artisans.
I more of a 'gloomer' than a 'doomer' and professional sport carried on through the great depression, the argentinian debt crisis, the collapse of the soviet union and the russian debt crisis.....
Its one half of bread and circuses.

[Toscano]

Arsenal wrote:I really hope this downturn continues. $13 hot dog, $7 soda, $10 beer. BS!!! Paying for parking, dealing with stupid people, expensive tickets, and all for a bunch of people playing a game, individually making more than every teacher in the US combined. And then they complain and are rude to the fans. F*#& them.

Amen Brother.

I still can't understand how so many people have that much disposable income for a ball game? It's nuts to spend that kind of money.

[lawnchair]

There will be pro sports for a while, just because of how much room there is to cut it down to size.

You could across-the-board cut major league baseball salaries by 90%, and those guys would still do it. What else are they going to do with themselves? Anybody going to hire these spitting lunks for more a million a year to do something else? Even the current $300k rookies would take $30k. That's a paycheck and easier work than some.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', 'T')here will be pro sports for a while, just because of how much room there is to cut it down to size.
You could across-the-board cut major league baseball salaries by 90%, and those guys would still do it. What else are they going to do with themselves? Anybody going to hire these spitting lunks for more a million a year to do something else? Even the current $300k rookies would take $30k. That's a paycheck and easier work than some.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')'m not gay or anything but I just can not stand organized sports. The spectacle, the big trucks, the huge stadiums, fake fireworks, and giants ads. The testosterone. Wait! That's so gay.

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')'m not gay or anything but I just can not stand organized sports.The spectacle, the big trucks, the huge stadiums, fake fireworks, and giants ads. The testosterone. Wait! That's so gay.

[Eli]

Pro sports is just a modern version of the Gladiator games of Rome.

One day the Coliseum will be empty.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'I') have NEVER attended a pro football game. Never will. Last one I saw on TV was the Superbowl in '81. Oakland vs someone. I only saw it because I liked watching Plunkett. I can't even remember who won.

[dunewalker]

Oops, I was a year off, you beat me to it.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'P')ro sports is just a modern version of the Gladiator games of Rome.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'P')ro sports is just a modern version of the Gladiator games of Rome.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', '
')I have NEVER attended a pro football game. Never will. Last one I saw on TV was the Superbowl in '81. Oakland vs someone. I only saw it because I liked watching Plunkett. I can't even remember who won.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'I') have NEVER attended a pro football game. Never will. Last one I saw on TV was the Superbowl in '81. Oakland vs someone. I only saw it because I liked watching Plunkett. I can't even remember who won.

[strider3700]

I've never been to a large sporting event and wouldn't mind seeing a raiders game one day. Being that I would have to travel a hell of a long way I'd put it up there with seeing sealand or disneyland. Something you do when visiting california. As it is seeing the canucks is a relatively easy thing for me to do and I did it once about 20 years ago. I can't imagine shelling out the money to do it on a regular basis.