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Yehoodi · 08-18-2012, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Tunescribe

Don't kid yourself. I've been a season ticket holder for 19 years and have missed all of two home games. There is NOTHING like being there. You see 1,000 percent more than on television, and you can't beat tailgating or hanging at Louie's before the game.

sorry but i cant agree with you on this one . . . certainly you see a different perspective (that is a pulled back version of the entire field being in the stands), but not more necessarily . . . what you gain in seeing the entire field (at the game) you loose the close up views, not to mention replays and ones ability to replay it oneself with the DVR,

so sure you can see the entire play develop, but at the expense of the close up views where one can see more interaction between the players . ..also too with the new HD format you see nearly all 22 players anyways, and any plays that are of importance you will get a endzone replay showing the entire field . . . coupled with the fact that you can rewind any play you want you have unlimited viewing at homes . . .

so its not more viewing just a different perspective . . . .

***rjw*** · 08-18-2012, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by lurker1965

Um, don't get me wrong. I love the Patriots.

However, I'm not rich. I can either go to a game and miss most of it looking for the bathroom.

Or save, what $400 total? That is a fifth of Jack and two prostitutes. You can't have prostitutes at the stadium.

"Escorts" are ok though, right?

***Tunescribe*** · 08-18-2012, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Yehoodi

sorry but i cant agree with you on this one . . . certainly you see a different perspective (that is a pulled back version of the entire field being in the stands), but not more necessarily . . . what you gain in seeing the entire field (at the game) you loose the close up views, not to mention replays and ones ability to replay it oneself with the DVR,

so sure you can see the entire play develop, but at the expense of the close up views where one can see more interaction between the players . ..also too with the new HD format you see nearly all 22 players anyways, and any plays that are of importance you will get a endzone replay showing the entire field . . . coupled with the fact that you can rewind any play you want you have unlimited viewing at homes . . .

so its not more viewing just a different perspective . . . .

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Have you ever been to a live game? Each play at the stadium has replay (usually more than once) on HD screens many times bigger than what you have at home. You might see NEARLY all 22 players on TV at home, but that's a poor substitute for seeing ALL 22 players live. Seeing the plays develop -- especially what's happening in the defensive backfield as receivers run their routes -- is an absolute key to the game chopped up and lost on the television feed. You also miss what happens in the offensive backfield and at the line of scrimmage after the pass is released. The TV camera follows the ball, but I can see blocking schemes developing outside that field of view and anticipate where the play is going. I also see the subpackages coming in defensively and substitutions offensively while your television is showing a commercial, so I have a better idea what's about to come.

What you also miss at home (specifically only to view): what's going on at both benches, what's going on when a player is down, what happens to injured players after coming off the field, etc., etc. I knew Fletcher was seriously hurt last week because he was being assisted downstairs to the training room while your TV camera was missing some six or seven players during a play on the field.

Finally, regarding "close-up views," I have this thing called Bausch & Lomb binoculars that shows me Woodhead's hand bleeding, the sweat dripping off Wilfork's facemask, Brady slamming his helmet on the bench and BB blowing into a snotrag after yelling at a linebacker.

Still disagree with me?

***Joker*** · 08-18-2012, 06:51 AM

You had me at Bausch and Lomb....

scout · 08-18-2012, 07:32 AM

All good points. The scene from Goodwill Hunting, when Robin Williams tells Damon "I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel." My brother has not been to a movie theater in decades. He has surround sound and a big screen and an opinion. My family swears by flying in to Providence to get to the Cape, versus Logan. I'll put up with traffic and inconvenience to feel the electricity of Boston, the smell, sights and noise. Just like a ballgame, they cannot be duplicated.

betterthanthealternative · 08-18-2012, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by scout

All good points. The scene from Goodwill Hunting, when Robin Williams tells Damon "I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel." My brother has not been to a movie theater in decades. He has surround sound and a big screen and an opinion. My family swears by flying in to Providence to get to the Cape, versus Logan. I'll put up with traffic and inconvenience to feel the electricity of Boston, the smell, sights and noise. Just like a ballgame, they cannot be duplicated.

I loved this until you reminded me of the smells of Logan.

Hart Lee Chung · 08-18-2012, 08:06 AM

There are ways around facial recognition...(not sure if I like this way though).

***PatsDeb*** · 08-18-2012, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Pujo

There are a lot of good reasons not to go to games, and also some good reasons to go, but this is neither, this is about not being a jackass if you do go. How many people here are getting ejected from games, anyway? I'd think most posters here are too hardcore of football fans to get drunk and get thrown out of the stadium.

I was thinking the same thing. Real football fans don't get thrown out. It's the jerks who get Uncle Joe's tickets for one game every ten years, or buy them off Stubhub and get drunk off their butts. I do hope this policy takes some heat off of Uncle Joe. I think the Pats' policy of revoking season tickets for someone who let someone else use their tickets and that person gets into trouble is a bad one. It punishes good fans the Pats shouldn't want to lose. Focusing on the person, rather than the ticket owner, will be a good policy. There is no mention, however, that this is the way the Pats are going to play it.

***PatsDeb*** · 08-18-2012, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Tunescribe

My mother made pie right, God rest her soul. Rhubarb, cherry, apple, peach, lemon ... Damn, why don't today's women do things like that?

We're too busy working so our menfolk can have their big screen tvs.

***PatsDeb*** · 08-18-2012, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Deus Irae

This isn't about being a jackass. People get ejected for smoking and other things that should be non-issues.

I've never seen anyone get kicked out for a minor infraction. The people I have seen booted are drunk and being abusive to those around them, and everytime there has been a warning beforehand. I have also seen opposing fans kicked out more often than Pats fans (meanining it's likely they aren't coming back anyway).

Although, I will say in the old Fox my brother-in-law got booted for peeing in the sink because the line was too long in the men's room. Would you consider that a minor infraction?