Ratings For Christmas Day NFL & NBA Games Discussion

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Yeah but the teams who have the most continuity are not really rivals aside from maybe the C's and Heat. The C's and Bucks/Sixers could be a rivalry I guess.... The Heat and Bucks are somewhat rivals.

The Nuggets and Warriors aren't really rivals. The Nuggets and Lakers aren't really rivals.
no Division rivalries is just bad for your regular season. It’s the only sport that doesn’t have them

players not building their brands and creating a fanbase through college is another big problem but y’all have heard me say a million times that the g league is stupid
 

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what assisted them this year was the writers and actors strike.


They're still regularly scheduled on 3 networks and Ravens vs 49ers was announced as an ABC game when the schedule dropped anyway along with the also originally planned ABC/ESPN Monday night doubleheaders earlier in the season.
 

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The NFL is as American as apple pie, 17 games so every game matters, fanbases actually put team above all instead of one or two players, there are actual division rivalries, etc. It makes sense most of America will turn on an NFL game over an NBA game, yes, even on Christmas.

Now compare those instances in the NBA and you got a lot of player movement, every other week it seems a player is disgruntled and might want to go elsewhere, “rivalries” if you want to call them that only really materialize in the postseason and that’s if they match up more than once, even then you never know because the team may look completely different from year to year. Lakers Celtics don’t even seem to have the juice it once did, and even then they only play twice a season. In the NBA some of the best players are foreign, and as much as people don't seem to think that matters it does if you want a big national reach here in the US. You could also add most if not all teams play the same, which has made the game more efficient, but you can't blame people for not wanting to tune into a 3pt shooting contest. There's not much variety in the game anymore.
 

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no Division rivalries is just bad for your regular season. It’s the only sport that doesn’t have them

players not building their brands and creating a fanbase through college is another big problem but y’all have heard me say a million times that the g league is stupid
This. Literally because each division must have a play-off team representing them it makes kind of a "sub-tournament" every season and these fanbases having animosity towards each other.
 
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Fans don't really argue about fukking Sam Howell and Jalen Hurts lol.... It's Washington and Philly. Will always be a rivalry. Fans will always care.

Fans don't argue about Goff and Cousins. It's the Vikings and Lions. Will always be a rivalry.

NBA chose to put players above teams and it cost them.
 

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NFL did a 'Black Friday' game this year on a Friday afternoon. :beli:


Of course they're gonna find a way to have a game on Wednesday. Prob will name it "a special edition of TNF" or something. They greedy like that.


Oh shyt I forgot about that :dead:





 
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The NFL generated 18 billion dollars in revenue. I’m not trying to hear about no middle class. Having more players doesn’t negate contract guarantees or force the dreaded franchise tag that’s just greedy
The NFL players have QBs making 55 million a year and receivers getting like 28 and elite defensive ends and OLBs getting like 30 and then every else gets in where het fit in. It’s not remotely the same. The NBA has non guaranteed contracts and all sports of clauses as well. Zion literally has a fat clause in his contract that just voided his guarantees.
 

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The NFL is as American as apple pie, 17 games so every game matters, fanbases actually put team above all instead of one or two players, there are actual division rivalries, etc. It makes sense most of America will turn on an NFL game over an NBA game, yes, even on Christmas.

Now compare those instances in the NBA and you got a lot of player movement, every other week it seems a player is disgruntled and might want to go elsewhere, “rivalries” if you want to call them that only really materialize in the postseason and that’s if they match up more than once, even then you never know because the team may look completely different from year to year. Lakers Celtics don’t even seem to have the juice it once did, and even then they only play twice a season. In the NBA some of the best players are foreign, and as much as people don't seem to think that matters it does if you want a big national reach here in the US. You could also add most if not all teams play the same, which has made the game more efficient, but you can't blame people for not wanting to tune into a 3pt shooting contest. There's not much variety in the game anymore.

Lakers vs. Celtics has really only been big on a national scale in the 60s, 80s and late 2000s/early 2010s and it was predicated on those two teams playing each other in the Finals.

Basically the formula for an NBA rivalry is they have to play each other in the playoffs multiple times, each team get a victory, and have starpower and/or play in a large market

In no other league is it that complicated
 
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