Anybody watched MLB or the NBA lately?
I have. But only briefly.
Baseball with its cardboard fans and piped in sound effects looks silly. Like the best man at a wedding who forgot his pants.
Basketball looks like a glorified YMCA scrimmage. Without cheering fans to amplify a great play or boo the opposing team, it all looks lifeless, soulless, dead.
You've got four components to the sports universe: Management; players and coaches; the media; we fans.
I've always said, we fans are the most important element. We pay the bills. Without us, the whole structure of Sport comes crashing down. From scholarships to mega-buck salaries.
But now that the pandemic has taken us out of the stadiums and out of the arenas, our value is even more apparent.
Sure, if the Cats and Griz play this year in an empty stadium, I'll watch. I'll cheer. But without a stadium of full of cheering fans, marching bands, mascots and cheerleaders, it won't feel the same, and it won't look the same.
I hope management, players and coaches and the media have learned a lesson about the most important element in their universe.
We fans.
I have. But only briefly.
Baseball with its cardboard fans and piped in sound effects looks silly. Like the best man at a wedding who forgot his pants.
Basketball looks like a glorified YMCA scrimmage. Without cheering fans to amplify a great play or boo the opposing team, it all looks lifeless, soulless, dead.
You've got four components to the sports universe: Management; players and coaches; the media; we fans.
I've always said, we fans are the most important element. We pay the bills. Without us, the whole structure of Sport comes crashing down. From scholarships to mega-buck salaries.
But now that the pandemic has taken us out of the stadiums and out of the arenas, our value is even more apparent.
Sure, if the Cats and Griz play this year in an empty stadium, I'll watch. I'll cheer. But without a stadium of full of cheering fans, marching bands, mascots and cheerleaders, it won't feel the same, and it won't look the same.
I hope management, players and coaches and the media have learned a lesson about the most important element in their universe.
We fans.