Any numbers?/TV ratings?

Hankinson is gone. Hopefully Andrulis and Nichol this year. If we're lucky maybe Gansler will retire.

 

Have they? Think about it. The Fires attendance didn't look very impressive this year. I also hear a lot of Fire fans complain that not as many Polish fans come out as they used to.

 

When your up against NFL, NASCAR, and golf the older generation has taken over the tube. The newer generation were too busy out getting pooty tang, drinking tang, and playing soccer. We have a ways to go, but it will happen. It takes balls to go up against NFL and NASCAR alone, add in golf a .8 is not bad.

 

Balls or stupidity.. One or the other..

 

I just found some relatively good evidence that the defensive play is not a result of players and teams not trying hard to win, but rather because they are trying hard "not to lose."

That evidence is detailed in a new thread:

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3616972#post3616972

With that said, I'd now prefer to discuss it there, since this thread was about TV ratings.

Sorry for hijacking it, guys.

 

Good call... As great as my points are, this isn't the thread for em ..

 

Hummmmmmmmmmm that's too bad and probably true. Used in tandem with a good format, bonuses would provide strong incentive. Oh well...

 

Nope, just stupidity. Stupidity with logic behind it, but still stupid.

 

Amen.

 

But their early Polish attendance was a wet dream; blatant ethnic pandering hardly ever works so well, so fast.

 

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but a ratings point is a percentage of TV households in the United States. Since the number of households increases every year, the number of households within each point increases every year. A 1.4 now would be worth more than a 1.4 in 1999. Thus, the audience is probably about the same size. It hasn't gone up, it hasn't decreased appreciably, it's just remained flat. There's your silver lining.

 

i agree with many of the other posters.

games do not have creative urgency. the DCU vs. NE game was the highlight of the season for me. amazing TV atmosphere and im sure it was crazy in thestands as well. the mls cup final had great support from DC fans as well.

but play off games are the only time of year in this league that fans feel any sense of desire for a win.
with only 1 team from each division not moving on its sort of dull.

i dont know how they plan on doing it next year because i havent been to up to date with the expansion deal, but they should keep it like it is. have two teamsnot making it from each side.