"Freefallin'" http://espn.go.com/otherfb/news/2001/0218/1093041.html You can't market such an inferior product and expect it to remain interesting after the novelty wears out. ------------------ The Rockets will be the NBA champions. Believe.
A 3.8. That's pretty bad. You could put tape of a guy picking his nose for an hour and get a 3.8. ------------------ Houston Sports Board The Anti-Bud Adams Page
The ratings are falling even faster than I expected. I now think that the XFL will last two seasons, three at the most. The bottom line is that most people don't want to watch a product that is inferior. ------------------
I don't know if that is the explanation. If people don't want to watch an inferior product, why do they watch college sports (which are admittedly inferior to the pro sports). ------------------ Houston Sports Board The Anti-Bud Adams Page
College sports are inferior to pro sports, but they are not an inferior product. The XFL has sloppy play, terrible anouncing and has made the sport second to the spectacle of the game. I gave the XFL a few weeks to prove that it was worth watching, and it isn't. Not to me. ------------------ The Rockets will be the NBA champions. Believe.
I have a gut feeling they are going to do drastic things to boost up ratings very soon, knowing who's involved. like showing more skin and violence, making it into a soap opera like wrestling is now... ------------------
What college sports lack in skill level and athleticism they make up for in the equally important catagories of heart, determination, hard work, intensity, and emotion. ------------------
You can't compare NCAA to professional sports. The best in college get to the NFL and NBA. All of the NFL rejects go to the World Football League and the XFL, much like players who can't make it in the NBA go to Europe or to the CBA. The thing with the XFL is that while they admit it isn't on the level of the NFL, they still market it as an acceptable alternative to the NFL. The CBA, WFL, etc doesn't try to do that because they know they couldn't survive. If the XFL marketed itself to smaller markets, and didn't try for all of this national coverage, they might be okay. But they are basically saying "We're admittedly not the best, but we're going to pretend we're on the same level." There is a market for minor league basketball, minor league baseball, minor league hockey and, I believe, minor league football. But if they expect to receive the same amount of interest and coverage as the NFL and still survive, they're fooling themselves. I don't watch (or care about) the CBA, or Minor League Baseball. I only have a passing interest in the IHL because of the Aeros and the fact that the NHL isn't in Houston, and the Comets are the only reason I care about the WNBA. Isn't the current roster for NFL teams like 52 players? Personally, I have no interest in watching people who couldn't even make third string on the worst teams in the NFL. ------------------ "We got f*cking smashed every day. And then when we came here to Beverly Hills, we had drugs, we had chicks, we had orgies. I thought I'd died and gone to f*cking Rome" ---Ozzy Osbourne, on the early days of Black Sabbath [This message has been edited by Lynus302 (edited February 19, 2001).]
RE: college sports A) People have emotional ties to collegiate teams. My viewership of Texas and Ohio State games has remained constant for the better part of the last decade-- near 100 percent. And UT and OSU have had some pretty poor teams at times. I care about both schools, though, so I watch the game whether Texas is beating A&M's asses or getting whipped by OU. B) College football is not a direct competitor of the NFL. College football is played on Saturdays, it's ostensibly amateur (hahahahahaha), and most importantly it operates with the full support of the NFL. C) College talent, and NFL talent, represent the peak at their respective levels. The XFL does not-- the players are professional, but they are the dregs of pro football. The worst college football teams aren't like the XFL's teams-- I don't watch them and think how inferior they are to the NFL. I watch Baylor and think how inferior it is to other college football teams. I do likewise with the Bengals. That's just my take. ------------------ I take her to the aquarium, she says shark, I take her to the planetarium, she says dark.
