Game Shortening Rules

[sjt18]

Yall understand commercials allow you to watch the game for free. It also pays for the close-to-Billion dollar revenue share the team receive.

If commercials are an anathema for you, consider watching the game after Freak posts it...he cuts out all the commercials.

Not free for almost anyone. Are you still using an antenna?

And yeah... if I could pay $10 a game or so to have no commercials except half time... easy call.

 

[sjt18]

Watching the Mississippi State game last weekend from the stands, the Redshirt TV Crew's digital timer seemed to start with at least 3 minutes for every TV break.

Yeah. My primary reason for this thread is that a bunch of guys argued that TV run times would be shorter and that it would be for "player safety". Those were justifications given to placate fans... both were LIES.

 

[jackaro]

Yall understand commercials allow you to watch the game for free. It also pays for the close-to-Billion dollar revenue share the team receive.

If commercials are an anathema for you, consider watching the game after Freak posts it...he cuts out all the commercials.

You get espn for free?

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Maybe for the same reason we don't like paying $1.50 for a candy bar that used to cost $.50 and weight 50% more?

If that's what their "deal" is worth then the ad minutes should support it. They made a calculation that us fools would accept it... and some of you very obviously do. Did you believe the lie that it was for player safety too?

Not for a second did I think it was safety related but I assumed with a deal as large as the SEC received more ads were coming.

Maybe they SHOULD go to PPV for all SEC games and those who want it, pay for it directly and the payout to the teams is a cut per game per paid viewers.

I feel certain my watching would drop some because now I'm only partially funding the payout via the cost of those commercials being increased by me being tuned in. If they were PPV, I'd be funding a larger amount of the cost.

That's how I view it. Sure, commercials are annoying and every year the breaks seem to be longer and longer. No doubt. I stay tuned in, whether I'm getting more food or getting rid of food because it's actually supporting the payout.

I think of it as giving my "pound of flesh" for the cause.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Now that we're in to it... I just feel a strong compulsion to say, I TOLD YOU SO.

Those changes are not nor were they ever about "player safety" or the length of the games. Just as many of us predicted, the games run just as long as they ever did if not more. We just get MORE COMMERCIALS.

Essentially you supported the NCAA giving us LESS football and more non-sense.

I’ve noticed it’s way harder to get into a rhythm on offense this year.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

Yall understand commercials allow you to watch the game for free. It also pays for the close-to-Billion dollar revenue share the team receive.

If commercials are an anathema for you, consider watching the game after Freak posts it...he cuts out all the commercials.

Free? I pay for You Tube TV. How are you watching for free?

 

[Carl Pickens]

I was in the social deck for the Miss State game…. Standing the entire time… and all the tv timeouts suck absolute dirty balls.

 

[tennesseecoyote]

Most of us are already paying plenty to watch these games on Cable. Why not get rid of 90% of commercials?

In the age of streaming, it almost makes watching the game live unwatchable, especially at the stadium where you’re just standing around endlessly. They try to entertain you by the various chicken shows, but they just don’t translate on a football field where you don’t see much of anything. Most of its is waiting around for the commercials to end. Of course it does give you plenty of time to go to the concourse and get a $5 pretzel or $9 coke.

All to pay $200 for your “ticket”, for less football and more commercials.

Games on TV, longer than ever.

My question is: Are you entertained?