That that many people watched the state of the union?
if I did not know any better I would think the proliferation of television platforms other than network tv and a writer's strike might have had something to do with this...There is no such thing as MASH or Dallas or the Cosby Show anymore....keep attempting to come up with elusive salient "wow, that's interesting" point Sparky, I know its just around the corner.....Staggering, hahahaha
I don't think the numbers are much of a surprise when you consider the money that was thrown around the last time TV rights were out for bid. The old formula for television has been dead for a while now. People have too many options to just sit and watch bad sitcoms.
Didn't you claim that the NFL didn't want to compete with college football on Saturdays?
This is one of those times you're not doing a very good job at trolling. You come off as deliberately obtuse and it's a really bad look.
Wouldn't be a "whole lot less". Perhaps in one region or another but not generally. Not even close. The only reason the NFL isn't on Saturdays during the CFB regular season is because the networks are paying too much for the inventory to mix it all together.
And getting more superior. Look, I am not even going into paying college kids now and that losing some of its luster. I don't think it does, I think we all agree but the mere fact now of the absolutely unfettered free agency without any real rules or guiderails that the sport has completely lost its plot and its greed is consuming itself.
The NFL by law can't televise games played on Friday nights or any time Saturday from September to mid-December.
You have it backwards, many fewer would watch college football if it was competing with the NFL.
The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, it's what allows the NFL to get around anti-trust laws when negotiating tv contracts and to protect high school and college ball.
No, I would never watch and SEC game ever, I'd rather watch Falcons vs Panthers, if NFL was Saturday, I'd watch the Pitt game like always, and then NFL games, if Pitt was head-to-head vs. The Steelers I'd DVR both and watch the Steelers live and Pitt after. .
This is the route most people would take, watching their college team and then switching over to whatever NFL game is on over some SEC or B1G game. There's a segment of Gen X'ers and Boomers who still think its the 80's when average sports fans got invested and watched college football, MLB, NBA, NHL and college hoops games on the regular even when their team wasn't playing, the only people doing that now are said Gen X'ers and Boomers along with degenerate gamblers.
There's also people, and I think mostly younger, that just want to watch the best teams play over having favorite teams that they follow religiously, myself I'd watch Pitt vs YSU over Bama vs Georgia, so a great SEC or B1G game doesn't interest me at all ever.
You always talk about "you" and what interests "you" like it is the norm when it comes to this stuff. It is not. You are not a normal sports fan. So what you prefer is fairly irrelevant. I don't mean to be brutally honest about this.
