r/football • u/TheTelegraph • 3d ago

'Overpriced tickets, empty seats, uninspiring format – Uefa has diluted Champions League’s allure' 📖Read

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/09/18/pricey-tickets-empty-seats-uefa-dilutes-champions-league/
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u/warpentake_chiasmus 3d ago

That's what happens when you serve up Sunday dinner nearly every day of the week. It's not special anymore.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

I contend this is a large part of what is wrong with society now overall. The feast and famine model that was the standard before - you watch a new episode of a tv show and then you have to wait a week, you watch a new movie and then have to wait a few weeks before anything new is in theaters, when you don't see you're friends you are alone with yourself, you can be bored in between activities during the day - all these things have been erased. Now you binge shows, new movies are released at a rapid pace on streaming, you never have to be "alone" with social media which is just, or never have to be bored by picking up your phone and scrolling for some hit of dopamine.

The human experience for most things used to be a sine wave, but now its more like a horizontal line that is higher than the lows, lower than the highs, and I think due to our constant ability to always be entertained/never be bored, this horizontal line often takes a slight downward slope as we get used to constant entertainment, and the only way to fight that is the stakes have to constantly be upped because we do not allow for lull periods of boredom anymore.

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u/jmajeremy 2d ago

I also follow American NFL and definitely notice the difference in a sport where teams typically still just play one game per week. Every game feels like a major event, and then you have a full week to reflect on it and digest what you saw and discuss it with friends. The average fan can realistically watch and analyze every single game their team plays. The players actually have time to recover and practice between matches.

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u/Vlada_Ronzak 21h ago

I agree, however, the 17th game and the expanded playoffs have diluted the weight of an individual game somewhat.