Comments on: Exclusive game audio could be the key to keeping stadiums full

By: footballchic777

footballchic777 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:32:55 +0000

How about you lower the ticket, concession, and parking prices so this family day @ the park doesn’t cost the equivalent of your summer vacation? That would pack the seats!

By: sameer1138

sameer1138 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:12:04 +0000

Games are already too expensive. This would probably add $10 – $30 per seat.

By: tundey

tundey — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:10:38 +0000

So after they get it to the in-stadium crowd, how long before the pressure of big money from the TV networks forces NFL to bring the same audio to TV? The only thing being at the stadium gets you that you can’t re-create in your own house is the energy of the crowd. The instant kinship you form with strangers. The noise and the chanting. I have been to 3 games at Redskins stadium and even though every survey says the gameday experience at FedEx is one of the worst, I had a great time each time.

By: dexterismyhero

dexterismyhero — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:05:43 +0000

I can see it now. Green Bay or Buffalo in late December. How many fans have to have their phones or earbuds removed from their frozen faces or ears.

By: hoosiermizuno

hoosiermizuno — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:02:39 +0000

i don’t trust the NFL to actually come up with a good idea and then make it available to fans without charge. They’ll create wireless internet, ability to hear on field audio, etc. but then they’ll charge an extra fee to the fan that will completely defeat the purpose.

By: jzolt

jzolt — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:37:32 +0000

Maybe if they cut the price by 50% or so more people would be able to afford to go to games.

By: grogansheroes

grogansheroes — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:23:44 +0000

If someone from the NFL monitored this site, they would find out what their core group of fans want. They don’t care about the core group, they already have those. They want new fans and new dollars. It’s what happens when sportsmen die, and lawyers and businessmen buy the teams.

By: vetdana

vetdana — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:33 +0000

For this to even be considered, the miked up player would have to be coached, grilled and edited to the point of being a very water down product of no interest…..Fans do not want another gimmick !……What do almost all of these comments have in common…..MONEY !…it costs way too much money to go to a game…..the NFL would never admit this, until the stands are empty !..Most of us may live to see this happen !

By: cubancigar10

cubancigar10 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:51:32 +0000

Has anyone ever tried to make a call sitting in their seats at a football game? I have not because of the action on the field (duh, that’s what we are there for) plus you cannot hear a damn thing. So how is wasting your money on an app that is unable to be heard a good idea? Hmm, some revenue enhancing money grubbers not thinking this thing through.

BETTER IDEA: Why doesn’t the stadium simply have an apparatus that grabs your ankles upon entering, tips you upside down, and shakes all the spare change out of your pockets into a waiting receptacle.

Anyways, back to the drawing board guys with your little think tank. And no! You cannot use my idea!!!!

By: rushbacker

rushbacker — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:53:51 +0000

What a bunch of crap. Seriously, this has virtually zero appeal. Here’s a novel idea. . . stop wasting millions of dollars paying marketing firms to figure out what fans want. Try using your ears, at least figuratively speaking. A few interns trolling around online can tell you what fans want– lower prices! It’s not complicated.

And leave the coaching staffs alone, dang. You mess with them, you’re going to end up screwing up the quality of the product on the field– and then no marketing on earth will get your precious billions back. Dang. Just leave it ALONE. We don’t want the locker room or the huddle made into reality TV. . . we just want football, same as we always have. it really is that simple. The game itself is what draws and holds our attention– not your asinine ad campaigns, don’t flatter yourselves. Just give us the game. Getting the extra camera angles with the replay package is an incredible bit of progress, but the stadium “experience” truly doesn’t need to be enhanced. Make it just a little more affordable, your attendance will be fine.

By: neilanblomi

neilanblomi — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:07:54 +0000

Allow legal NFL betting at the stadiums. That is a serious incentive to go to the games.

By: monkeyhateclean

monkeyhateclean — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:01:51 +0000

Imagine the best case scenario: 80% of the ticket-buyers quietly, passively sitting with smartphones connected to earbuds, straining to hear what their team’s QB or LB, etc are saying.

Is that the “gameday experience” owners want to sell? Having to pump in artificial cheers and applause because their “fans” are too preoccupied trying to hear their $10 audio feed?

By: silentcount

silentcount — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:56:55 +0000

The best way to fill a stadium is to lower the ticket prices. It just plain costs too much to go watch a game.

By: rajbais

rajbais — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:50:48 +0000

I get the feeling that this is going to a disaster. Usually all the apps or online plans that are predicted to be so great and get the huge type usually get the lowest rating.

By: granadafan

granadafan — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:42:09 +0000

The NFL doesn’t get it. The cost benefit ratio of paying to go to a game has leaned to the “too much money” side. The prices of tickets, concessions, parking, and souvenirs are just too high. It’s as simple as that.

The rest of the stuff they’re offering are just carnival side show gimmicks. Sure, people may be curious at first, but bottom line, the prices must come down for them to come.

By: youcantmakemepickausername

youcantmakemepickausername — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:15:21 +0000

Think tech wiz football fans would find away to hack this thing and send false play’s or obnoxious comments to the players on the field?
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Yeah, i can picture it now: QB: “okay guys, we’re gonna run …… BA-BA-BOOOOOOOEY

By: jagsfan9674

jagsfan9674 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:14:18 +0000

If we need Audio of the players to get people to come the games then I’m seriously concerned about the future of the game. I dont want to go to a game where everyone has their phone stuck to their ear rather than watching the game.

It would take away the energy that is created at each game that makes it worth going. I go to the games now in 95 degree heat with a losing team and wouldn’t trade it for anything because the atmosphere of going to a game win or lose cant be beat by an air conditioned room and a soft couch.

By: scratchnpost1234

scratchnpost1234 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:13:16 +0000

Greeddell doesn’t miss a dollar.

By: scratchnpost1234

scratchnpost1234 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:12:35 +0000

Just another way for the NFL to squeeze more money out of fans. I agree with the reduce parking concessions and game tickets, but that won’t happen. How long before you have to pay to view on TV for every game too?

By: Florio_Jr.

Florio_Jr. — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:11:59 +0000

Smart phones NEVER work in an NFL stadium who gives a flying damn.

By: pftstory

pftstory — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:07:46 +0000

It’s the prices stupid.

Money is what keeps fans home. Like PFT has stated, take one years season tickets and you have a home theater for year after year.

How is hearing the players in a headset going to change that?

I do not get the people who complain about the cost of food. You can’t go 4 hours without eating? Especially if you tailgated? But I do get the cost of tickets being a problem for a fan to overcome.

I believe if the home theater rules the roost, having this new “in stadium sound” is not going to change things…. Especially if the home theater investment has been made already.

By: countyk66ers

countyk66ers — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:57:07 +0000

NBC had it right years ago when they did away with announcers as an experiment for a few games.

By: Great Caesar's Ghost

Great Caesar's Ghost — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:43:16 +0000

They tried this with Bush and Cheney years ago and it was a disaster.

By: egomaniac247

egomaniac247 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:20:34 +0000

This newsbit to be quickly followed by the announcement that Goodell will fine players for each swear word uttered into the mics.

By: beefsbrother

beefsbrother — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:15:49 +0000

I’m a Pats die-hard from the Grogan days, and even I thought the idea of putting a team in London was stupid. Now this. Just how greedy are these f*ckers anyway?

By: pacmantriggerman

pacmantriggerman — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:11:49 +0000

I like my HDTV.

By: selgaeinla

selgaeinla — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:57:14 +0000

The XLF piped in the coach to QB radio signals.

By: hedleykow

hedleykow — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:51:12 +0000

It will be fun to hear how many different ways Tebow screams “Jesus Christ” during a game.

By: bloggingpoodlewalker

bloggingpoodlewalker — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:45:53 +0000

I go to every game, the last thing I need is some lame audio feed,…I go to party at tailgates, then watch the game in the stadium,…losers who cant get off the couch we dont need, enticing them with stupid apps?…stay home losers.

By: knowsfirsthand

knowsfirsthand — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:39:50 +0000

This is a joke. Hard enough for these guys to concentrate and now they have to filter what they say.

The game is great as it is. Leave it alone. Half the fun of the game is predicting what play will be next. Arm chair quarterbacking is part of the appeal.