Comcast made a deal with Charter.. which is MAYBE available in 1/3rd of Hood River... because of that, this is the screen I get if I wanted to give Paul Allen my money to be able to follow this team.
precisely why he's gotten me to 2 games in the last 3 years as opposed to 15-20/year in the years before comcast.
For about $500 a family of 4 can enjoy decent seats and bad food for about 3 hours, or a fun-filled weekend at the coast or in Beautiful Central Oregon. Easy choice.
It's too early in the season. As far as the casual sports fan goes, it's still football season. Some of that will change in January, after the bowl games, but the casual fan won't really turn to Blazers' basketball until after the Super Bowl. I'd say check back in February and March. That's when people start paying attention to college and NBA basketball. If the Blazers are on pace to making the playoffs at that point, and the arena isn't selling out - then I think the team will see this as a marketing problem (and they may be right). Unfortunately, I doubt we'll like their solution... I would imagine we'll see the next incarnation of "One Team, One Dream" (I'm dating myself).
Trust me I know. Id like to go back some day cause Oregon is beautiful but I can go back to school here a lot cheaper. The only thing Sc has on or is cheaper gas and less liberals
As a mostly country boy everything west of the mountains felt like 1 giant city. Even bend was getting too big for my tastes, I prefer to drive in for a game and return to antisocial internet antics.
Not being a resident of Oregon, I am unfamiliar with the "Comcast" situation. Can someone explain it to me in one sentence and explain what it has to do with the poor attendance?
Comcast northwest is only available on Comcast on a certain package. If you don't have it, you don't get the games. People don't like that.
i was pissed at the comcast situation until i moved, leaguepass rules. there should be a law against comcast blacking out league pass, you are still paying for the fucking games, just not their shitty cable bill.
All companies for NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, Lacrosse, Rugby, Soccer, Curling, Foosball, Darts, Quiddich, etc. Blackout their stellar coverage.
Good thing the players gave hundreds of millions to the owners so the owners could keep fans happy! (Actually, the reason is those fucking Timbertrims, stealing our fans.)
With no ability to watch games, a fan loses interest in the team, and with no interest in the team, said fan loses interest in paying money to go see the team.
Basically, fuck Comcast. What really sucks is, they made that deal with Comcast literally a year before the Sonics left, FSN/Root Sports would have been theirs, man.
