Blackouts for sports is so dumb. And as a Raider fan we had years and years where we would maybe get 1-2 home games a year on local TV. The logic behind it is dumb too. Your stadium holds 50,000 or whatever. There are likely way more than 50,000 fans of the team within the region. Even if they wanted to, all of the fans couldn’t attend the game. But the product being put on the field, combined with the interest of the fans to attend the live game isn’t enough to sell 80% of the seats before the game. That should tell you the product and venue is broken, not the fanbase. Yet the fanbase is punished.
The idea that all of the fans are punished because enough fans don’t attend the live event is just petty and lame. I hate it.
The Raiders blackouts were how I began finding sports streams back in the day and is the reason why I will never pay any league to view games from home
Seriously fuck the Cardinals
Blackouts for sports is so dumb. And as a Raider fan we had years and years where we would maybe get 1-2 home games a year on local TV. The logic behind it is dumb too. Your stadium holds 50,000 or whatever. There are likely way more than 50,000 fans of the team within the region. Even if they wanted to, all of the fans couldn’t attend the game. But the product being put on the field, combined with the interest of the fans to attend the live game isn’t enough to sell 80% of the seats before the game. That should tell you the product and venue is broken, not the fanbase. Yet the fanbase is punished.
The idea that all of the fans are punished because enough fans don’t attend the live event is just petty and lame. I hate it.
The Raiders blackouts were how I began finding sports streams back in the day and is the reason why I will never pay any league to view games from home