(01-23-2016 02:30 PM)_C2_ Wrote: Those contracts some players get are still bloated. That's the thing, you have to overpay to get talent because the market drives it.
Football won't go away, but games will be much shorter. It'll be the reverse of today's format, with each school's band and flag-wavers taking the field for one fifteen-minute quarter in the first half, followed by a short football (or maybe flag-ball?) game at halftime. Then, each band will perform another fifteen-minute routine before time runs out. Spectators will vote to determine which band outplays the other, and nobody will care about the silly little halftime football game. As now, that's when folks will hit the concession stands and restrooms so they can get back in their seats before the bands resume marching about and playing in the second half.
Bands will be judged not only on musicality, but also on their marching ability and the kinds of formations they make. Expect mission creep. The immense Buckeye band, for example, will no longer be content to spell out the script OHIO. Instead, the musicians will be spelling out THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, OHIO, ON THE BANKS OF THE SCIOTO RIVER. Of course, at the expense of their rivals, they'll demand more than their allotted time to complete that large and complex maneuver. Some things never change.
In the event of a tie, when the spectators can't decide which band is best during regulation time, each band will get to perform for another fifteen minutes, and gates will be locked so observers can't escape before they take a final vote. It'll be glorious.
I can't even imagine what bowl games will be like, but I do know that all of us will be so sick of hearing musical tributes to Jerome Kern and the like during the regular season that we'll want to shoot ourselves. Once that crap gets in your head...