Bay53 wrote: ↑April 29, 2021, 1:06 pm
I am against the conference idea per se, but if you were going to do it,
it would have to be mixed up between teams in different locations and change regularly.
No, no, no, no!...
Man, that's just the worst idea i've seen on this yet!
You don't build marquee match ups and rivalries, which are the key match ups that drive attendance and ratings by having teams chop and change around like that...
You build them by making a smaller group of teams play each other more often and in games with higher stakes... right now raiders fans really couldnt give a **** about say Brisbane... there is no real rivalry there, if we played them tonight, losing the game matters but we're not really bothered about losing to Brisbane, because who **** cares?... but if we're the same conference, losing to them is HUGE. That's an inter conference game, the stakes automatically bigger...
The way sports typically work playing in big stakes games frequently creates rivalries... rivalries create marquee/showcase games, and those games the ones that drive revenue likes crowds, ratings, TV money etc...