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I think of football as one of the killer apps for tv. Baseball is one for radio: baseball is almost always better over radio; there’s lots of space to do something else at the pace of most baseball games.
What’s the sport for short form video?
I'd be interested in what kind of eSports game is condusive to VR spectating. I tried doing Dota spectating before, and rigged up a mod for Minecraft vlogging/spectating, and concluded it wasn't quite like being at a stadium, or watching it on Twitch in a way that was interesting.
To me, this is the only real football game: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football . (No spoilers please!)
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> The Oscars usually manage to claw onto the list and in election years a couple presidential debates make it, displacing a few regular season games. the oscars audience is shrinking all TV broadcast is growing like 1/10th the rate as Netflix did in the past decade. That's my benchmark.
> the oscars audience is shrinking Yes, but NFL viewership is growing. > all TV broadcast is growing like 1/10th the rate as Netflix did in the past decade. Okay, but that undermines your earlier point. The NFL isn't tied to or limited by 'broadcast television'. NFL football is simply 'video content', but not just any video content, it's the hottest video content of all time - no matter how its distributed. Streaming…
I think of football as one of the killer apps for tv. Baseball is one for radio: baseball is almost always better over radio; there’s lots of space to do something else at the pace of most baseball games.
I spent a summer building a car in a garage with baseball on the radio. That was the most I’ve enjoyed the game by far.
This guy is not totally wrong but he is also way off about pretty much everything even just simple basic facts. He writes "Michigan Stadium, the third‑largest sports venue on earth." which is not even remotely true. Michican Stadium isn't even in the top 5 of venues in the US never mind globally[0]. And thats if you just take capacity counts at face value and don't try to include places that have huge standing room c…
I’ve only ever seen Klosterman do friendly interviews. I think his work would improve if it was challenged more.
He's kind of on the 3rd or 4th act of his career...I think he started on sports, really made his name in music/pop culture, moved on to be New York Times Ethicist for a while (!) and is back to sports. IMO he asked good occasionally hard questions of pop stars. One thing I love about him is at heart he is a true superfan of the disciplines he covers so is not a "critic" per se, but that may steer things more toward t…
I can totally see the appeal.
No evidence or supporting material, just continued insistence that the author is correct. “I can’t crawl inside your skull and prove you wrong. But this is how it works for most people, including most who insist it does not.“ Consider this direct excerpt of 2 back to back sentences and how 1 contradicts the other. You can’t crawl inside my skull, but you can crawl inside everyone else’s?
The essay is a great example of a mindset that devalues the subjective and strives to rebrand it as objective. Paradoxically it shows insecurity. "My experience doesn't count unless it's The Truth." You like a thing. That's fine. That's enough . There's no need to prove the worth of your own enjoyment by fantasizing that it conquers everyone else's brain too. You're the adult now. You're allowed to like it just becau…
Nah. I mean I like you and that's fine. Who wants to hear about your qualities. They probably don't or wouldn't like you anyhow.
I think of football as one of the killer apps for tv. Baseball is one for radio: baseball is almost always better over radio; there’s lots of space to do something else at the pace of most baseball games.
And just like killer apps of other technologies there were supplementary instruction books: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/chris-schenkel/...
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Baseball is killer in-person but it's also pretty nice to just have on TV. There is nothing else like the tension of a critical at-bat. Football is actually really really weird for a spectator sport and, I think, is generally presented very poorly. 80% of the game is deciphering opposing formations to determine what they each are predicting the opposing formation is about to try to do.
Football is so unique in that the way it’s presented makes it almost impossible to understand what’s going on. There are a million rules, which even die-hard fans don’t understand. And the broadcast doesn’t even make an attempt to explain or even show the offensive or defensive formations and plays being chosen. It feels like what we’re shown on tv is a very narrow slice of what’s going on. We see the ball moving dow…
No idea if it's true or not