Posts Tagged ‘NFL’
Junior Seau’s Suicide: Not Just a Typical “Tragic Event”
I suspect I’m not alone in hating the way “tragic deaths” are handled in the media. It’s overplayed; it’s maudlin; people who hardly knew the person in question existed before they were dead feign a whole bunch of feelings about the deceased. It’s dumb and unbecoming for everyone involved. But alas, I doubt there’s much [...]
NFL: Distant Early Warning Part 2
A while back, I said that the NFL, while being the strongest entertainment property in the world, should be picking up trouble on the Distant Early Warning system. The point I made then was that the in-stadium experience was so rough, so savage that eventually it would change the perception of the non-stadium goer and [...]
NBA and NFL Locked Out
It’s not a surprise, but now it’s official: the NBA has locked out its players. And to quote the article I just linked, it’s bad news: “The NBA… is about to show the NFL how to conduct a truly contentious labor war and stage a lockout likely to do real damage in terms of dollars, [...]
Is it Always Good to Have an Open Kitchen?
One trend over the last 10 or 20 years in the restaurant business is toward having an open kitchen. This is a setting, like you’ve seen in a million places, where all the cooking happens in plain sight of you, the diner. It works because food is very personal: It goes in your body; it’s [...]
Will There Be an NFL Season? And What Does That Mean to You?
I have to say that I’m spectacularly uninterested in the ups and downs of what’s going on between the NFL Players and the League and Owners. That’s not because I don’t like football. I’m a big fan. It’s just that the only thing I want to hear is “the lockout’s over. Football starts again as [...]
NFL: Distant Early Warning
Back in the Cold War, there was a system set up in northern Canada to give the United States the earliest possible warning of a Soviet nuclear attack. It was called the Distant Early Warning system. Right now, the NFL is as close to invulnerable as an entertainment property may be. It was the most [...]
3 Things the NFL Can Teach the Rest of the Live Business
The grizzly bear has crawled out of its winter hibernation chamber as of tonight. All the creatures, great and small, in its domain must once again acknowledge its benevolent but certain rule. The National Football League is back in action tonight, with its first regular season game of the year. Many of my readers in [...]
“Slowly Strangling the Golden Goose”
If ever there was a Golden Goose in live entertainment, it’s professional football. This sport is a gold mine. People by the tens of thousands per game spend hundreds of dollars per ticket, happily. Almost every game (at least until recently) sells out. Teams like the Washington Redskins have literally hundreds of thousands of people [...]
Pretendinitis in the NFL?
I’ve been on this topic a lot lately, but this is too important to ignore. (As a refresher, go back and look at what I mean by Pretendinitis here and here.) The Washington Redskins claim to have sold out every game for the last 70 years, and all you have to do is look at [...]
The Future is a Niche Market, Contd. (The ‘But How?’ Edition)
We talk all the time about the future being a niche market, and in our inaugural Edition, Stewart Copeland of The Police said this: “There is no otherwise. Unless you are selected by the titans of industry to be the next iPod icon like U2 or something, you’ve got to find a niche. Niches are [...]
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