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SlyPokerDog said:
Also you're going to have ton more tourists traveling to Vegas to watch their hometown team play there while also having a nice vacation.
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And you can have the tourists pay for the arenas and stadiums with the hotel tax. The Raiders new stadium isn't costing the residents of LV anything, tourists are paying for it.
 
Chris Craig said:
My ass. Now thousands of fans are fucked unless they switch over to Comcast or AT&T
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We have had DirecTV at my house for 19 years. My wife and kids have never been able to watch a Blazer game in our own living room..... until now. I’m sure you will figure out an option.
 
Look at this list
#1 New York - 9 pro teams
#2 LA - 8 pro teams
#3 Chicago - 5 pro teams
#4 Philly - 4 pro teams
#5 Dallas - 4 pro teams
#6 San Francisco/Oakland - 5 pro teams
#7 Atlanta - 4 pro teams
#8 Houston - 3 pro teams
#9 Washington DC - 4 pro teams
#10 Boston - 4 pro teams
#11 Phoenix - 4 pro teams
#12 Seattle - 3 pro teams (counting the expansion NHL team)
#13 Tampa - 3 pro teams
#14 Minneapolis - 4 pro teams
#15 Detroit - 4 pro teams
#16 Denver - 4 pro teams
#17 Orlando - 1 pro team
#18 Miami - 3 pro teams
#19 Cleveland - 3 pro teams
#20 Sacramento - 1 pro team
#21 Portland - 1 pro team

The only cities in that list that are as low as us is Sac and Orlando, but California and Florida are so saturated with pro teams that it's not really the same thing at all. It's fucking stupid that we only have one pro team (and I'm not counting soccer.)
 
SheedSoNasty said:
So, should I get rid of my YouTube TV account? The Blazers were the reason for getting it in the first place.
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I’d wait right before the season starts. You never know they might make a deal with them by then. That’s what Im going to do
 
Titan said:
Wait, what is the media market size now for the blazers? Is it big enough now to draw free agents? Will they get more favorable treatment? Finally part of the big dawgz?
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Good point. I have no idea why the Blazers don’t dominate this whole region from Alaska, Montana, Washington state, Idaho, that’s a huge market to literally be the only NBA team around. Shit even British Columbia.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Nope. Nobody seems to realize that we're not a small market anymore. We have grown a ton in the past 15 years. We're not a large market, but we're also not small.
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Yup. I agree. I think from all the “small” markets we’re definitely on the bigger side of them. I’ll say we’re firmly a mid size market. But definitely not say Salt Lake City
 
SlyPokerDog said:
The list of corporate sponsors and skybox buyers is probably 20 to 1 in Vegas vs Portland.
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Yea I agree on the corporate part goes Vegas but Portland has tons of the food and drink industry companies that can pay for that stuff. Not including the sports wear companies we have.
 
THE HCP said:
We have had DirecTV at my house for 19 years. My wife and kids have never been able to watch a Blazer game in our own living room..... until now. I’m sure you will figure out an option.
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Damn fam why didn’t ya just get Comcast?
 
Natebishop3 said:
Look at this list
#1 New York - 9 pro teams
#2 LA - 8 pro teams
#3 Chicago - 5 pro teams
#4 Philly - 4 pro teams
#5 Dallas - 4 pro teams
#6 San Francisco/Oakland - 5 pro teams
#7 Atlanta - 4 pro teams
#8 Houston - 3 pro teams
#9 Washington DC - 4 pro teams
#10 Boston - 4 pro teams
#11 Phoenix - 4 pro teams
#12 Seattle - 3 pro teams (counting the expansion NHL team)
#13 Tampa - 3 pro teams
#14 Minneapolis - 4 pro teams
#15 Detroit - 4 pro teams
#16 Denver - 4 pro teams
#17 Orlando - 1 pro team
#18 Miami - 3 pro teams
#19 Cleveland - 3 pro teams
#20 Sacramento - 1 pro team
#21 Portland - 1 pro team

The only cities in that list that are as low as us is Sac and Orlando, but California and Florida are so saturated with pro teams that it's not really the same thing at all. It's fucking stupid that we only have one pro team (and I'm not counting soccer.)
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Yea it’s crazy and whoever the owner for the next real pro team we get (nhl, mlb,) will be wondering why they didn’t come here a long time ago.

Portland is a huge sports supporting city. Look at the Timbers. They been sold out for over a decade now! If I was a billionaire I’d do whatever it takes to bring major sports here. It’s guaranteed success
 
Could have sworn there was a thread for this....


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I don't understand not including MLS but counting NHL, just because that's always been the way. MLS draws more fans than NHL does. Why would somehow getting an NHL team make us more of a real sports town.
 
RR7 said:
I don't understand not including MLS but counting NHL, just because that's always been the way. MLS draws more fans than NHL does. Why would somehow getting an NHL team make us more of a real sports town.
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There are more teams, more games, and more history with the NHL, that's probably why it's considered a "big league" over soccer.
 
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RR7 said:
I don't understand not including MLS but counting NHL, just because that's always been the way. MLS draws more fans than NHL does. Why would somehow getting an NHL team make us more of a real sports town.
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The big four pro leagues are a status symbol. MLS isn't even close to being the best soccer league in the world. I can't say that I know much about hockey. Is there a better league than the NHL?
 
HolyBackboard said:
It's 2021 and the Trail Blazers choose a broadcast partner that has zero streaming options available? Just an incredible way to alienate your fan base, especially those young (and middle-aged) fans who cut the cord years ago. What an archaic decision.
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Now you're right where I was for 15 years. I hate to say I love what they did now I can sit back enjoy the next 4 years of blazers basketball.
 
HolyBackboard said:
It's 2021 and the Trail Blazers choose a broadcast partner that has zero streaming options available? Just an incredible way to alienate your fan base, especially those young (and middle-aged) fans who cut the cord years ago. What an archaic decision.
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I don’t know any details, but aren’t the Blazers acquiring more fans through the addition of satellite customers than losing streaming only customers?
 
THE HCP said:
I don’t know any details, but aren’t the Blazers acquiring more fans through the addition of satellite customers than losing streaming only customers?
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They may be acquiring more fans at this current moment, but it's an incredibly short-term gain. Instead of focusing on building that bond with a younger generation of potential fans, those familiar with streaming services, the Blazers added a lot of older fans. I'm in my mid-30s and I feel like a lot of my generation and the generation after me has already cut the cord and has no desire to go back.

Streaming is the current and future means for consuming content. The Trail Blazers failure to grasp and understand that doesn't surprise me one bit.

This decision feels a lot like your favorite sport, baseball. Keeping and enforcing these "unwritten rules" appeases the older generation but by not embracing showmanship or finding ways to speed up the game, the amount of younger fans interested in the game will continue to dwindle.
 
HolyBackboard said:
They may be acquiring more fans at this current moment, but it's an incredibly short-term gain. Instead of focusing on building that bond with a younger generation of potential fans, those familiar with streaming services, the Blazers added a lot of older fans. I'm in my mid-30s and I feel like a lot of my generation and the generation after me has already cut the cord and has no desire to go back.

Streaming is the current and future means for consuming content. The Trail Blazers failure to grasp and understand that doesn't surprise me one bit.

This decision feels a lot like your favorite sport, baseball. Keeping and enforcing these "unwritten rules" appeases the older generation but by not embracing showmanship or finding ways to speed up the game, the amount of younger fans interested in the game will continue to dwindle.
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Dude! Go read the OregonLive article and you'll see that they are working on a streaming option instead of blindly complaining. They arent cutting streaming and just moving on without it.
 
HolyBackboard said:
They may be acquiring more fans at this current moment, but it's an incredibly short-term gain. Instead of focusing on building that bond with a younger generation of potential fans, those familiar with streaming services, the Blazers added a lot of older fans. I'm in my mid-30s and I feel like a lot of my generation and the generation after me has already cut the cord and has no desire to go back.

Streaming is the current and future means for consuming content. The Trail Blazers failure to grasp and understand that doesn't surprise me one bit.

This decision feels a lot like your favorite sport, baseball. Keeping and enforcing these "unwritten rules" appeases the older generation but by not embracing showmanship or finding ways to speed up the game, the amount of younger fans interested in the game will continue to dwindle.
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You are right on with regards to MLB.
 
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