How Will The Way We Consume Sports Continue To Change In 2024?
Will We Revert Back to Tried and True Methods?
There is a time in every sports fan’s life when you have full weekends to dedicate to watching sports. You can prepare all week for the weekend slate, and plan which games you plan to watch. If multiple big games were on at the same time, you have a plan of when you can switch back and forth and keep an eye on the ticker at the bottom of the screen. You have a strategy, and if necessary, can visit the local sports bar if multiple games need to be watched at once. College football needs a particularly robust strategy, especially on Saturday nights when multiple Top-25 teams are playing.
My friends and I had a drill perfected through the years: get together at someone’s house or the local Buffalo Wild Wings, consume unholy amounts of food, and watch college football. But we were limited to the screen in front of us. If multiple games were on that we wanted to see, we needed a location with multiple televisions.
I can’t help thinking about this as I watch four games on the same screen and write this, thanks to YouTube TV’s Multiview feature. It wasn’t that long ago I was watching Saturday Night Football with my buddies, yet it feels like the way we watched football was primitive, and I can’t help but feel like a…
