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Originally Posted by Prometheus
That's silly. If we used such logic, we would have to conclude that the NHL is about as popular in the United States as the NFL, which only has 16 games per season.
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NBC's nationally televised Sunday night football game averaged 22 million viewers in 2010. NBC's nationally televised NHL game of the week averaged 1.6 million viewers.(09-10) Pro rated, that still leaves the NFL with nearly triple the audience of the NHL. Sounds about right.
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Originally Posted by Prometheus
Your notion of "pro rating" a season (just like your notion of counting total attendance instead of average attendance) has no validity when comparing an 18-game season with a 36-game season. One of the biggest complaints of many football fans is that there are not more games. Your premise that attendance and viewership would decline if 18 more games were mixed into the season is preposterous.
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Double the games would mean much higher season ticket prices, which would certainly reduce the number of season ticket buyers. I'm sure you agree that the laws of supply and demand apply to professional sports.
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Originally Posted by Prometheus
What the closeness of the BC Lions' ratings to the Canucks' ratings likely shows us is that the BC Lions have become a much closer second to the Canucks (in terms of fan base) than we realized.
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The Canucks are #1 by a long shot. Everybody knows this.