301 days too late
I thought about blogging about the NHL this morning. After all, they did make a deal yesterday.
But...
301 days after their collective bargaining agreement expired, the NHL finally brought the players union to its knees, and rammed a deal down the players throats.
301 days too late.
They may have acheived cost certainty, but what will they do about revenue certainty? A league that robs its fans of a season needs to do a lot more than just show up and tell everyone everything is OK. Season teickets are on sale now.
ESPN bowling gets better ratings than the NHL, and bowling is usually up against Sunday afternoon sports.
When you have a sport and no one is watching it, and national advertising shies away from it, and national viewership is down, and then you take a year off to bicker about money, not many people care.
So why bother blogging about a sport that exists on the periphery and has watered down its product so much that it barely resembles hockey.
But...
301 days after their collective bargaining agreement expired, the NHL finally brought the players union to its knees, and rammed a deal down the players throats.
301 days too late.
They may have acheived cost certainty, but what will they do about revenue certainty? A league that robs its fans of a season needs to do a lot more than just show up and tell everyone everything is OK. Season teickets are on sale now.
ESPN bowling gets better ratings than the NHL, and bowling is usually up against Sunday afternoon sports.
When you have a sport and no one is watching it, and national advertising shies away from it, and national viewership is down, and then you take a year off to bicker about money, not many people care.
So why bother blogging about a sport that exists on the periphery and has watered down its product so much that it barely resembles hockey.
posted by Air Time at 11:33 AM
2 Comments:
i miss hockey,and, assuming my cable will come back, I'll watch the Wings next season...and I'm guessing that you'll end up seeing games with your oldest, and get hooked
BTW don't knock that bowling show. lol. Its fun.
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