BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

I can remember pleading with my dad to take us to the local college arena to watch Ali fight on a big screen. "No fucking way we are paying $30 a ticket to watch something on TV that will be on regular TV in a couple of weeks!"

He finally relented and took me and some friends to watch the first Wrestlemania on a closed circuit showing.

I'm sure it's somewhere that I'm too lazy to seek out, but will these theater games not be shown on any TV, I'm guessing? So it's pony up for the mass gathering or you don't get to see it? I can't imagine it being successful any other way.

 

ESPN would be stupid to limit their audience to theaters when all games are available in some manner nationwide. If I'm a theater, I let people in for free and just cash in on concessions.

 

T Swift is showing her concert on movie screens next month. Good luck getting the Wake Forest Alumni Association choice treatment against that force of nature.

 

If they would show cartoons and previews of upcoming games and make the experience like the movies were before all the pre-show commercial schlock took over, it could be fun to watch a game in a theatre on a big screen.

 

I shudder to think what movie theatre candy bars must cost now. I’m still shocked to the bone that they’ve broken past the $2 barrier in convenience stores.

 

+1.
The last film I saw in a theatre was Hollywoodland. Geez, that seems like 2006 or 2007. Wasn't all that long after Hurricane Katrina.

 

$7 to watch closed circuit Indy in 1967.

The minimum wage was $1.40 in 1967.

The minimum wage is currently ...WHAT - THE MINIMUM WAGE IS $7.25 IN MOST OF THE COUNTRY?? Shit, it is $15.50 in California. Anyways, the 1967 ticket was 5x the minimum wage. In California today, a ticket 5x the minimum wage would be $77.50.



As a side note, when I worked in Maryland in high school in the early 80s, the minimum wage was $3.35. That the federal minimum wage is only 2.16x that 42 years later is insane.

 

But damn, the Fighting Serpentines would be a pretty intimidating nickname.

 

I just checked the website of the local Cinemark Theater/Theatre.

Popcorn and soda combo: $14.40
Small drink: $4.75
Bottled water: $5.65
5-ounce bag of Nerds: $5.30
XL refillable popcorn: $9.95

 

I can live with getting raped by the pricing, but our Alamo Drafthouse, with to-your-seat service, adds an automatic 18 percent gratuity, then has a spot for an additional tip when you settle your check.

Fuck that noise.

 

Equivalent to $64 today.

Indy has a such a rich history and an estimable group of people who write about it. Here's a good and exhaustive piece on how the race was broadcast and the difficulty of the 1967 rain delay on the closed circuit theater showings.

https://doctorindy.com/2023/03/09/indy-500-on-television-part-2-1964-1970/

 

Pet peeve of mine is Square/Clover/Toast, etc., automatically adding in tip requests when I buy an ice cream or pick up a sandwich. Dude, I did this for 35 years without needing to tip anyone. Businesses can override it, and those are the places I love.