James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell
@byjoelanderson I have I haven’t looked at the specifics, but last I heard these Indiana proposals were closer for most Chicagoans than the most prominent proposal of the state of Illinois.
It’s still going to remain a TV product for most people.
Good reminder that neither RFK nor anyone else in his cohort actually thinks elite higher education is bad. They think you are gullible enough to think they think that, however
@SundevlmanForks Lincoln’s like “Only 12 teams in the playoff??? I didn’t save the union for that”.
Then he’s informed there used to be only four, then only 2 and he has a heart attack
@UsedGolfFacts I don’t think ultimately the blood money argument worked anyway. That’s not the reason it went down.
Though I do think your question remains valid
@Super70sSports Yeah but American car culture had many destructive byproducts including crappy shopping malls that are now abandoned, boring cookie cutter suburbs, expressways that destroyed neighborhoods and so on.
@FightLikeACow@3YearLetterman@SeanRossSapp /2 they relied on NFL games to promote their other tv shows during the commercial breaks. And the NFL has mostly stayed with a policy of keeping most of their games on the FTA broadcasters—though a few games here and there are on pay-tv now.
@FightLikeACow@3YearLetterman@SeanRossSapp Historically the big American tv networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and later FOX) were and still are shown on broadcast tv (free-to-air). Those networks came to view sports programming, especially the NFL, and incredibly vital to their livelihood as they captured large audiences./1