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Butts In The Seats

Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 09:35AM by Registered CommenterCFR in | Comments3 Comments

"The greatest sporting even in all of America" . . .

Is playing to empty crowds.

The 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament has begun, with Xavier and Georgia the first teams to tip off, and it's a little depressing to look at the crowd at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.

Or, I should say, the lack of a crowd.

At least in the portion of the arena that the CBS cameras are showing, there are many more empty seats than there are fans. The best seats in the house, up front and right at center court, are almost totally empty.

This happens every year, but folks keep on believing in the greatness of an event that doesn't inspire people to you know, actually attend the event.

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And ESPN asked attendees of some of the second-tier bowl games to sit on one side of the stadium so it wouldn't look so empty. Wizard of Odds: http://thewizardofodds.blogspot.com/2007/12/maintaining-integrity-of-bowl-system.html

This happens every year, but folks keep on believing in the greatness of the current system that doesn't inspire people to, you know, actually attend the event.
March 20, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJohn
Yep, second-tier bowl games vs. "America's Greatest Sporting Event". One doesn't actually pretend to be something it's not.
March 20, 2008 | Registered CommenterCFR
maybe you ought to look at the stands of 3/4's of the bowl games. Oh, wait a minute, a lot of those seats are even bought by the respective universities--Doh!
April 14, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterhomer

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