Friday, June 10, 2005

Playoffs?!?!? Don't talk to me about playoffs....

Yeah, so the NBA finals are going on now? When? 9 PM?!?!? Last night's game 1 ended at nearly midnight. Who the hell does the NBA think stayed up to watch this game on the east coast? (By East Coast, I mean everything east of the Rockies, except SanAntonio and Detroit). ABC's ratings for this year's playoffs are down about 25% (LA Times) from last season, which continued a downward trend. Of course, it doesn't help that Detroit and San Antonio aren't very exciting to watch for the average fan. Can it be also because the games start after most kids are in bed? By the time Will Smith gets jiggy and Alanis gets Canadian, the game gets going before an audience that needs to get up in the morning, and can't invest nearly 2 1/2 hours in a basketball game.
There is a generation of kids growing up that will not have been able to watch, fom start to finish, an NBA Finals game (or a World Series game, for that matter). Doesn't that make it more likely that these kids won't give a rats ass about watching once they are old enough to stay up? Does anybody give a rats ass now?

1 Comments:

At 4:15 PM, Blogger aaron said...

Bahhhhhh!!!!! you're an old man. Stay up late.

Of course, you're 100% right.

 

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