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August 19, 2016Happy Friday WFNY. I’m writing to you as someone who has not watched the Cleveland Browns pre-season game because I hung out with Paul McCartney last night. Seems like a pretty fair trade, to be perfectly honest, but I do have a Browns complaint to lead off this week…
Browns pre-season home schedule kind of stinks…
It’s an old story about how unfair it is to have to pay full price for pre-season NFL tickets. I won’t run that through the ringer again, but I’m still going to complain. If I have to pay full price for pre-season tickets, I’d love to be able to take my young kids to a game that has little value, and is ripe for leaving early. I am not above leaving a regular season Browns game early if the situation dictates it. However, I’m not going to risk a young kid begging to leave starting in the second quarter by taking said kid to an NFL regular season game. Pre-season would be perfect, except it’s nearly impossible the way the schedule works out.
The Cleveland Browns’ home games are Thursday night games at 8 PM. Both take place on weeknights, at or near kid bedtimes, after kids have already gone back to school, for the most part. And it’s not just the Browns with this kind of scheduling.
A gander at the NFL’s Week 2 pre-season schedule shows all but two games being difficult for families. The Panthers play the Titans on Saturday at 3:00 PM and the Giants play the Bills on Saturday at 4:00 PM. Other than that, the earliest game on Thursday is the Steelers and Eagles at 7:00 PM and the earliest game on Friday is 7:30 PM with the Jets and Washington.
I’m not out here to say that the NFL needs to be family friendly or that they need to cater the schedule to children, but the pre-season probably should line up better. To charge full price and then put games at inconvenient attendance times is painful. I’m sure these are the best TV times for the games, and I’m sure they make more money by getting people to watch this garbage football on TV, but it’s not right. If that’s the reasoning, then it’s greedy.
Not shocking to see the NFL potentially acting greedy.
LeBron James on The Daily Show…
It’s been a nice break for LeBron as he’s sent out videos via social media all summer of him alternating between relaxing and working out on his own terms. Now, with a TV show ready to hit the air, he’s doing some media rounds and the first thing he had to discuss was his social activism. Noah’s first questions revolved around LeBron’s statement at the ESPY’s and his foundation in the Akron area.
In case you missed it…
Your weekly moment of soccer anti-zen…
I was scrolling through clips and videos to find the weekly moment of soccer Zen, and I decided to go the opposite route. These are the Top 10 worst open goal misses. Everyone has highlights, including this site most weeks. So this time, we go with lowlights!
Music of the week, Paul McCartney…
As I said in the open, I’m missing the Cleveland Browns pre-season Game 2 because of Paul McCartney. As a result, that’s all I’m thinking about and thought I’d head us into the weekend with some classic material from one of the world’s most phenomenal songwriters.
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I would have loved to see Sir Paul McCartney in concert, 50 years ago!
note: more power to the man to be able to still tour and do concerts. I mostly wrote the above because I could. Crazy that 50 years ago, the Beatles were just becoming a supergroup and McCartney can still sell-out big venues.
Not only does he still tour…he plays 3 straight sets without a break! Still an indefatigable performer in his mid-70s.
It’s sometimes interesting to think about how much you’d be willing to pay to see a live Beatles concert today – what is the quantitative value of an experience like that?
I don’t know. I’m not sure Lennon would be much of a stage presence in his current condition.
George might have some difficulties putting on a good show, too.
Naw, they’d just prop him up and no one would notice.
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Beat me too it. lol
It’s so impossible to answer the question. The fuel to the longing to see a reunited Beatles was supplied so much by the impossibility after Lennon’s death. If they’d all made it to Paul’s age, who knows how much more or less anyone would care?
C.R.E.A.M.
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Thank you for the soccer anti-zen, I really needed that. We had a charity soccer tourney at work earlier this week, and in the championship game, score was tied 1-1 with ~1 min to play. We had a corner kick and my teammate put a perfect pass to my head on the back post…but it just skimmed off my forehead and kept going. If my head is just an inch or two forwards, the ball is in the back of the net and we win the cup, instead of losing in PKs. But nooope, I flat out missed it. Good to see it happens to the rest of the best of us.
Perhaps it would help if I rephrase the question: How much would you pay in today’s dollars to see the 1965 concert at Shea Stadium? How about to see the Beatles in the Cavern Club in Liverpool? As you say, it’s nearly impossible to put value on experiences like that, but still a fun exercise
that is an entirely different question though – being able to go back and see them at the height of their performing prowess would be amazing.
my answer:
1/2 as much as I would pay to see similar shows from the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin
1/3 as much as Jimi Hendrix
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Though I’m a man of admittedly modest means, I’d probably be willing to pay north of $1,000 to see the greatest band of all time perform at the height of their powers. Insane? Perhaps…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1G6W863ppU
First game of the season my senior year, on the road, against a conference foe. Game tied midway through the second half. Opposing keeper gets drawn out to the edge of the box, then slips and is flat on the ground. Ball is crossed to me, running all alone down the center of the field. With the keeper now recovering, I hammer a shot at the open goal from 30 yards out…and it sails right over the crossbar, the sounds of me yelling “NOOOOOOOOOOO” echoing through the stadium. Thankfully we managed to hold on for the tie, but I remained stunned for days after.
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