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It's not just the audience that grow tired, also the players. If you have an all year around sport then there will be no match that is the most important. All m
by Too 13y ago
It's not just the audience that grow tired, also the players. If you have an all year around sport then there will be no match that is the most important. All matches are equally important(unimportant) and the players become numb. Compare watching the early rounds of NHL each season with the Stanley Cup semi finals, winning the former doesn't mean shit but winning the later means everything, when do you think the players will give their max, which one will be more interesting to watch?
- jgon 13y agoAs a Canadian this strikes me as incredibly true. I'm at the point where I really don't watch that much regular season hockey anymore. The NHL keeps extending the season and trying to add more teams and it is just becoming tiresome. But once the playoffs are on I would pit hockey against any other sport on the planet for entertainment. The olympics were another example of this. The hockey played was at such an incredible level that I watched every game I could. I couldn't get over how intense and entertaining the games were, and if more people saw that style of hockey it would be much bigger than it is now with over 80 games, 60% of which will be absolute snoozers. Football has an incredible advantage in that its players get ~1 week to rest up in between games and with only 16 games, they are all pretty important. This means that most games are played at a high level of intensity and skill and are thus more entertaining. Moving to dilute this quality in pursuit of more revenue is a path I've watched the NHL walk down, and hopefully the NFL can learn from their mistakes.