Thursday, March 12, 2020

Soccer Without Fans

I sat and watched about ten minutes of a German soccer game on TV last night.....a 'ghost' game (no fans, because of the virus threat).  It was pretty weird.

The camera guys tried hard to avoid pan shots of the stadium or the stands, but about every 30 seconds, you'd get a good view of empty stands. 

Oddly, they pumped fan-'noise' into the stadium, for the benefit of the players, and you felt kinda faked-out over that part of the situation. 

More of this?  It's a city-by-city, or state-by-state thing.  I get the impression from TV interviews of the public that they are understanding but they question how long you can do this.  The season would end in roughly eight weekends.  Some of the teams are going to have a rough situation with meeting payroll activity if this continues on. 

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