Comments about ‘Super Sunday another holiday’

Another thing about the Mtn's coverage of the the Utah-BYU game... a whopping 15 million people had the chance, if they had the right cable company, or the right satellite company, and the right package on that satellite, to watch the one of the biggest MWC games of the year between two of the MWC's marquee teams. Remember this in March when the MWC only gets two teams into March Madness. March Madness indeed!

The Mtn covers basketball? Uh, by the way, what is the Mtn? I live outside of Utah and have never heard of the Mtn. Also, what is the MWC and who are these teams Utah and BYU? Do they play basketball? I've never seen them. You see, I have this network called ESPN and all they show is Big East, Big Ten and ACC games over and over and over and over. They have this loud mouthed clown named Dick Vitale who I think is related to Bozo. He makes the games so enjoyable. I love him!!!! Good luck with that Mtn thing. Maybe some day I'll hear a conversation about it outside of your beautiful state!

Scott, I doubt that many people would pay $35 to watch the Super Bowl. If it migrated to pay-per-view, the event would fall out of favor with the general public. After all, most of the people who tune in are in for the "event," not the game itself.

If you did your research, you would know that people were saying the same things about pay-per-view televised sporting events back in the late 1940s. you can read old issues of The Sporting News and see articles about how teams considered switching baseball games to all pay-per-view back in 1948. There's a reason they didn't, and it's the same reason boxing isn't the sport it once was.