johnnyangryfuzzball wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:03 pm4th&long wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:30 pmjohnnyangryfuzzball wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:04 pmAnd to think, we were squeamish in 2020 when NY, LA and Tampa Bay were consistently getting those numbers.
Personal note: I definitely feel like in most places (obviously not counting St. Louis, which comes out in Hades or high water to support the Battlehawks) that the spring football timeline seems to hurt attendance. You're not only competing with pretty much every other sport but also nice weather.
Arena football works in the spring and summer because you have air conditioning and it mainly serves to fill dates at unused arenas during the summer. But if you're looking to get fans in the stands, winter in warmer-climate cities and indoor stadiums is the way to go.XFL 2020 never saw these low #'s officialy, they were papering a bit of course, but they did better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_XFL_season
At these tix prices I'm not squeamish. Let's see what the ratings are this week.The lowest attended games in the XFL in '20 were around 12,000—and that's slightly ahead of what the highest attended game was this week.
Yes that's why I wished VM repurchsed the XFL - this group is more cost conscious, both from the RBC and Fox side. Of course that translates into lower results in both viewers and attendance. It is what it is. But we are in our 6th year of spring FB so something is working.
