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!@#$%! · 02.22.2015, 09:49 AM

i haven't been following the politics this year but i'll check in on the story.

before i do, i'm thinking maybe it's not necessarily about preserving their dominance but being able to afford stadium tickets.

after all roma is not in the bundesliga and got spanked 7-0. (and the same players did the same thing to brazil). so maybe they're on to something that's not about money (i'm not saying this 100%, i'm saying "maybe").

(paderborn btw is a minnow that was recently promoted.)

when i watched the damned united i also looked at the special features and they had interviews with fans-- they were talking about how they'd run into the players at the pub, etc.

the story that came across those interviews was that TV made fans irrelevant for the team's survival, and priced them out of matches.

right now you can get tickets for any bundesliga game for 10 euros. what happens when they do it the way you guys to it? prices go up 50? 100? 200? can you afford to watch west ham at the stadium on a regular basis?

there's a downside to every story. and if tv rights was the great equalizer then it would follow that before tv the premier league was dominated by one team-- which it wasn't.

then you say the bundesliga is unwatchable because of bayern, as if bayern was the whole of the bundesliga. but wolfsburg-berlin play in a couple of hours and it's guaranteed to be a PACKED stadium.

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eta:

found this and looks to do with schedules:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/bundesl...6643--sow.html

ps - looks also that there's currently pretty good parity in the distribution of tv money:
http://bundesligafanatic.com/the-bun...ace-in-europe/

^ that article also points to germans being used to free tv not like the hellish cable packages that you guys have to live with. so why would german fans be allies of their own gravediggers?

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i'm not saying i wouldn't like to see more competition for the top bundesliga spot but i don't know that control of the sport by some behemoth media conglomerate is the solution.

02.22.2015, 09:49 AM	#6370
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	i haven't been following the politics this year but i'll check in on the story. before i do, i'm thinking maybe it's not necessarily about preserving their dominance but being able to afford stadium tickets. after all roma is not in the bundesliga and got spanked 7-0. (and the same players did the same thing to brazil). so maybe they're on to something that's not about money (i'm not saying this 100%, i'm saying "maybe"). (paderborn btw is a minnow that was recently promoted.) when i watched the damned united i also looked at the special features and they had interviews with fans-- they were talking about how they'd run into the players at the pub, etc. the story that came across those interviews was that TV made fans irrelevant for the team's survival, and priced them out of matches. right now you can get tickets for any bundesliga game for 10 euros. what happens when they do it the way you guys to it? prices go up 50? 100? 200? can you afford to watch west ham at the stadium on a regular basis? there's a downside to every story. and if tv rights was the great equalizer then it would follow that before tv the premier league was dominated by one team-- which it wasn't. then you say the bundesliga is unwatchable because of bayern, as if bayern was the whole of the bundesliga. but wolfsburg-berlin play in a couple of hours and it's guaranteed to be a PACKED stadium. -- eta: found this and looks to do with schedules: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/bundesl...6643--sow.html ps - looks also that there's currently pretty good parity in the distribution of tv money: http://bundesligafanatic.com/the-bun...ace-in-europe/ ^ that article also points to germans being used to free tv not like the hellish cable packages that you guys have to live with. so why would german fans be allies of their own gravediggers? -- i'm not saying i wouldn't like to see more competition for the top bundesliga spot but i don't know that control of the sport by some behemoth media conglomerate is the solution.
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