Rules Changes?

[jtwcornell91]

I can't wait for the new, three-man college basketball season to reopen. Wait! is 3-on-3 college basketball  only in case of ties after regulation play expires? Anyway, expectations are that swarms of new spectators who never cared for 5-on-5 basketball will flock to games due to the possibility they could watch some 3-on-3. Rumor has it the NBA is considering going to a game of HORSE to settle ties, to the delight of many potential fans.

Try discussing Twenty20 with a fan of Test Cricket sometime. ::uhoh::

[French Rage]

I can't wait for the new, three-man college basketball season to reopen. Wait! is 3-on-3 college basketball  only in case of ties after regulation play expires? Anyway, expectations are that swarms of new spectators who never cared for 5-on-5 basketball will flock to games due to the possibility they could watch some 3-on-3. Rumor has it the NBA is considering going to a game of HORSE to settle ties, to the delight of many potential fans.

Try discussing Twenty20 with a fan of Test Cricket sometime. ::uhoh::

2020 has a way of pissing off all sports fans.  

[Trotsky]

Nicely done.

[ugarte]

it is inevitably always true that the people with money invested in the game - owners, tv networks, advertisers - spend more time thinking about what people who are hockey-curious but not hockey fans care about than hockey fans do. if you asked those people what you would probably find is that they hate ties. you can put a value judgment on it or on america, but ties are basically anathema to american sports. games that can last forever are also kind of anathema to televised sports. the businesses are bigger than the desires of hardcore fans, and if you think that sucks, well, a lot of things suck when they are ripped from their original environments. the olympics are a festival of sports excellence that is also a grotesque political operation and a pathos factory where the struggles of the athletes get 30x the airtime that the sports themselves do.

3x3 hockey is a different thing than hockey but if the sport is going to treat ties as a bad outcome - something everyone involved financially clearly agrees on - i'd rather have a 3x3 before a shootout instead of proceeding right to the shootout, which is an even more egregious bastardization of the sport than a wide open OT. Also 3x3 is fun.

[Scersk '97]

the olympics are a festival of sports excellence that is also a grotesque political operation and a pathos factory where the struggles of the athletes get 30x the airtime that the sports themselves do.

One of the few consolations of the march of time is how one can now—at least, if one has enough money to wring coverage out of NBC's grubby hands or is sufficiently savvy to employ a VPN—watch the Olympics without mediation. When the real Olympics are on, it's non-stop cross-country skiing, nordic combined, biathlon, and alpine skiing for me.

What a difference in this generation!

[Trotsky]

The 2 iron laws of aesthetics:

1. Quality and broad appeal are mutually exclusive.

2. The only way to keep a good thing good is to keep money out of it.

[Rita]

NHL playoffs off to a great start - OT HOCKEY.

In the 5th OT for all the purists out there .

[osorojo]

We got to see a couple hours of great competition decide an ice hockey game instead of a few minutes of 3-on-3 pond hockey. The money people - television programmers and team owners - probably disliked that game?!

[upprdeck]

everyone on knew who was watching was fed up with the game once it got beyond 2 OTs. The majority of people watching a game are the fans of the teams, bettors, fans of hockey.

bettors were not happy
fans of teams were happy mostly
hockey fans probably didnt watch the whole thing mostly

[abmarks]

everyone on knew who was watching was fed up with the game once it got beyond 2 OTs. The majority of people watching a game are the fans of the teams, bettors, fans of hockey.

bettors were not happy
fans of teams were happy mostly
hockey fans probably didnt watch the whole thing mostly

I remember some four or five OT games in the past with full 5v5 20 minute OT, and those were so dramatic to watch even though it kept me up late into the wee hours of the morning to watch. No idea who teams were, and I wasn't a fan of those particular teams either it was just fascinating.

[Tcl123]

everyone on knew who was watching was fed up with the game once it got beyond 2 OTs. The majority of people watching a game are the fans of the teams, bettors, fans of hockey.

bettors were not happy
fans of teams were happy mostly
hockey fans probably didnt watch the whole thing mostly

I remember some four or five OT games in the past with full 5v5 20 minute OT, and those were so dramatic to watch even though it kept me up late into the wee hours of the morning to watch. No idea who teams were, and I wasn't a fan of those particular teams either it was just fascinating.

Devils-Sabres in 1994 playoffs game 6 went 4 ot. I wasn't happy with the outcome, but it's one of the games I enjoyed watching the most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeQaOlz22Fk

[Trotsky]

Caps-Isles 4-ot Easter Morning game the best Game 7 I've ever seen.  God bless Pat LaFontaine.

[Tom Lento]

everyone on knew who was watching was fed up with the game once it got beyond 2 OTs. The majority of people watching a game are the fans of the teams, bettors, fans of hockey.

bettors were not happy
fans of teams were happy mostly
hockey fans probably didnt watch the whole thing mostly

I remember some four or five OT games in the past with full 5v5 20 minute OT, and those were so dramatic to watch even though it kept me up late into the wee hours of the morning to watch. No idea who teams were, and I wasn't a fan of those particular teams either it was just fascinating.

Devils-Sabres in 1994 playoffs game 6 went 4 ot. I wasn't happy with the outcome, but it's one of the games I enjoyed watching the most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeQaOlz22Fk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Stanley_Cup_Finals

The 3OT Game 4 from that series was the game I'd say started me out as a hockey fan. I just remember that game being thrilling, and even though I didn't care about hockey, didn't care about either of the teams involved, and barely knew what was happening I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

[Rita]

Caps-Isles 4-ot Easter Morning game the best Game 7 I've ever seen.  God bless Pat LaFontaine.

I remember that - bill clement and gary green on the tv call. I think bill clement was wearing the tie on his head by OT #4. I remember some very strange things.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Caps-Isles 4-ot Easter Morning game the best Game 7 I've ever seen.  God bless Pat LaFontaine.

That was a great game.  I remember one of the announcers (Bill Clement?) wearing his tie like a head band by the end of the game.

Edit:  Hadn't read Rita's post when I wrote this.