TV Ratings Quash Soldier Field Party

Very few Bears fans, relative to their overall following, actually heading to the Super Bowl on Sunday, the Chicago Park District made plans to show the game on the enormous video screens at Soldier Field.  It would’ve been a festive gathering, almost like a home-away-from-home game for Bears’ fans.

However, the NFL nixed that idea, and their stated reason was that having so many thousands of fans watching the game on one television could harm overall television ratings.  On its face, that reasoning is somewhat ridiculous.  Hundreds of millions of fans all over the world will watch the game, so whether or not 50,000 people in Chicago all watch it in one place should not affect the ratings and resulting advertising rates.  Regardless, the NFL has spoken, so Bears fans will have to find some other way to watch the game together.

One of those ways would be to see the game in-person simply by logging onto StubHub.com and choosing any of their Super Bowl tickets.

Posted in General on January 30, 2007

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