can know two things
- half the country will not give a crap and wouldn't even know it was
happening (even worse for hockey)
- half the country will wonder why the other half isn't glued to their TV's
You'll get a thousand explanations but one of the major themes from
the thousand sportscasters, newsmakers, talk show guys will be about
how late it starts. World Series games that end after midnight on a
school night can't possibly be the best way to attract young baseball
fans and NBA finals games which don't tip off till 9pm probably don't
have the average 9 year old in mind Even this 36 year old has a
hard time staying up for playoff game after playoff game knowing my
alarm clock (i.e. two year old) gets up at before 6AM. And although
the Superbowl starts at a reasonable time with all the commercials and
halftime flashes there are many nights that it doesn't end till 11pm
not to mention Monday and Sunday night football which routinely ends
around midnight
But the argument is always that in order to placate to the West Coast
you can't start earlier because an 8pm start would mean that some
surfer has to cut out of work a bit early. The most ridiculous part
is that California fans are notorious for showing up late, so if you
started a game at 5pm and they turned the game on at 6pm they'd feel
righty at home.
But really how many people are we doing this for? I looked up
population per time zone and found this link
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=714986 which says that
in 2004 the total population in the eastern and central time zones was
roughly 226 million people while the pacific and mountain timezones
are only 66million
So I'm grouchy for a month straight because of lack of sleep so that
AC and Zack can catch the first quarter
Those guys already get great weather, a bunch of hot chicks prancing
around and their sports fans get a great bight sleep. It is just not
fair
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