To me, it is the advertising. It is EVERYWHERE. I feel less like at a football or baseball game and more like I am being sold a product or service the entire time. Take baseball, the beautiful new stadium is non-stop advertising. Even the cup holders have ads. Everywhere you look there is something somewhere being sold to you. Inbetween innings and plays we get bombarded with crappy commercial after commercial. The same is true with Tiger Stadium. Just about every available surface for advertising is being utilized. Having been to games for 30 years I can tell you this is sucking the experience out of the game. I feel less part of the environment and more of a "theater goer" or bystander.

Ads are part of sports so I am not suggesting we get rid of them altogether. They play an important part in generating revenue. Perhaps the athletic department should find a better balance and seek alternative avenues of revenue.

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Posted by Oyster

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Posted on 6/8/14 at 10:39 am to Tony The Tiger

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To me, it is the advertising. It is EVERYWHERE. I feel less like at a football or baseball game and more like I am being sold a product or service the entire time. Take baseball, the beautiful new stadium is non-stop advertising. Even the cup holders have ads. Everywhere you look there is something somewhere being sold to you. Inbetween innings and plays we get bombarded with crappy commercial after commercial. The same is true with Tiger Stadium. Just about every available surface for advertising is being utilized. Having been to games for 30 years I can tell you this is sucking the experience out of the game. I feel less part of the environment and more of a "theater goer" or bystander. Ads are part of sports so I am not suggesting we get rid of them altogether. They play an important part in generating revenue. Perhaps the athletic department should find a better balance and seek alternative avenues of revenue.

I feel like I'm in sensory over load at LSU events now. The advertising is well past my ability to ignore it. They are invading our mental private space. The advertising overload does distance us from being part of the real event. It's no longer our beloved school's sporting events we attend. We attend a corporate sports event. Simple fact is LSU Sporting events as we knew them have ceased to exist.
It's not just LSU, this involves the whole of the NCAA. The "college sporting world" has changed.

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