I think you maybe said something even more prescient than any of us now realize.
It may well be that so called "spectator sports" are nearing a fork in the road with a choice between either a major overhaul in how the product is marketed or obsolescence.
Why watch 3.5 hours of commercial larded "coverage" of the NFL when you can see a summary of the impactful plays in 15 minutes?
I think the die hard fans will still attend games in person for a few decades yet but maybe Jomez-esque post produced viewing options are the future.
When I used to care about the major spectator sports, I preferred to tape the games on VHS and got real good at watching them in FF mode, cutting the time down to like 1/3. Didn't miss a thing. It was a little more difficult with modern DVR type situations because the skip button often doesn't time well.
Now that I've lived both sides of the coin (caring deeply about baseball and football, and now not), I find it fascinating to ponder why these sports got SO big with SO much money. Why do people care so damned much in the first place? I sure did for many years.
I think acculturation is a giant percentage of it, much more so than an intrinsic love of the sport and/or interest in the outcome. Before my brain was fully cooked, I could tell you the batting averages and ERA's of all the 1984 Chicago Cub starters because my Dad had every game on wherever we were and his emotional investment naturally translated over to me, his offspring, just like it often does for politics and religion and whatnot in every family's house. Monkey see, monkey do. And for the big ones (NFL, MLB, NBA, NCAA football) it's gotten crazy, like the fans are members of a giant cult or something along those lines.
The reason I'm going on and on about this is because it seems to me an attempt is made to go this route with Disc Golf, where instead 30-minute Jomez videos the next day are probably more in line with the level of enthusiasm it could ever have. I just don't see this being like the NFL, ever, where millions who don't play the sport at all care stupidly deeply. In fact, someday there might not be such a thing as three or four gargantuan sports if humans are free to branch out and pay attention to smaller things that interest them more. We have more than three TV channels now. We've only started acting like it in the last couple of decades. I'll be surprised if the NFL and especially MLB is near as big as it is now in fifty years.
It's not my place to say "we don't need live PPV". I'll just be surprised if the efficacy and reach of it is one tenth as good as the promotors and diehard enthusiasts hope it will be. Power to everybody who want to do it and consume it, of course. And my kid has a chance to be one of the benefactors for this in ten or fifteen years, so for his sake...YEAH, I'd like to see players who aren't in the top 5 make millions when he's in his twenties.
In the meantime, I'm quite satisfied where Disc Golf is right this minute. Easy for me to say, though. I've been an enthusiast since the Cyclone was the best driver on the planet and you were lucky to have one course to visit often.
). I did, several times, consider league pass to be able to watch games whenever I want - but I never spent the money because the stream was just not good enough and there were too many technical issues. Time is the other issue - even though a basketball game is way shorter than a round of discgolf...
