Tiger Woods out for season

[BlackHitachi]

The same could be said about college hockey!!!...

NO JOKE! by a lot more!

 

[Mr Tony]

The same could be said about college hockey!!!...

nah. College hockey is much better than the NBA.

 

[boomer69]

nah. College hockey is much better than the NBA.

nah. The NBA is much better than college hockey!!!...

Hey, this "my opinion is better than your opinion" thing is pretty easy!!!!...
Too bad it doesn't mean anything...

 

[Mr Tony]

anywho...back to the topic

I wonder how much the ratings will go down now after this?

 

[dantheman77]

darn. i have tickets to the bmw championship. its in st louis this year. would have loved to have seen him (or at least tried, with the huge gallerys). there was a tournement here several years that tiger missed too.

 

[jwfgeol]

anywho...back to the topic

I wonder how much the ratings will go down now after this?

ESPN - Tiger's absence will reverberate throughout golf world - Golf

Not surprisingly, studies have shown that PGA Tour events without Tiger in the field or in contention have had a severe drop in television ratings the past few years. According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, "tournaments in which he finished in the top five had a 171 percent increase in CBS' ratings over those in which he did not play or wasn't in contention. … In similar tournaments on NBC, the ratings increase was 59 percent. … The two-network average showed an increase of 111 percent."

 

[HD MM]

darn. i have tickets to the bmw championship. its in st louis this year. would have loved to have seen him (or at least tried, with the huge gallerys). there was a tournement here several years that tiger missed too.

Yeah, I go to the WGC Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron every year. Tiger has won there 3 years in a row and 6 of the last 9! Needless to say,
he will be sorely missed this year.

 

[SabresRule]

That article on Tiger's impact on golf reminds me of something I read a long time ago.

It was talking about Michael Jordan's impact on TV and ratings, and Ernie Johnson said this:

He eats a tuna fish sandwich and you get a 4.5 rating.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

Lmao!

 

[riffjim4069]

nah. College hockey is much better than the NBA.

I agree....college hockey is just behind behind college football and the NHL. The NBA used to entertaining almost 30 years ago, but the best professional basketball is now played overseas. Winning the Olympics is now the standard for declaring your team World Champions...and not the NBA.