BleedGopher
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If you spend time posting on a message board you can’t really complain about tech use by young people
His point is perhaps more nuanced. I'd say PF is touching on how multi-tasking can cause present yet absent moments during life experiences/relationships. Young people do not have sole ownership of this practice. All people can come up with all sorts of reasons to not give all their attention to someone or something.
Get off my lawn!
Good points by Pat.
But $$$ always plays a factor.
Sounds like Pat has been looking for ways to make it a better experience, but he has neighborhood concerns he has to be aware of.
Maybe they need to pair each game with a concert.
His point is perhaps more nuanced. I'd say PF is touching on how multi-tasking can cause present yet absent moments during life experiences/relationships. Young people do not have sole ownership of this practice. All people can come up with all sorts of reasons to not give all their attention to someone or something.
Yeah Chicago / inner burbs are hardcore about event noise. Cubs almost never play Friday night home games because of city ordinance and outdoor bars and dining mostly all close at 11 even in the middle of downtown. I’m guessing it’s worse in older and quieter Evanston.
I would say folks who live next to those things knew what they were signing up for when they moved in. None of these things were recently built.
You can’t shift the entire game day experience to cater to TV with long TV timeouts, odd start times, 8 minutes instant replay reviews over 7 yard catches that they never show replays in the stadium of etc...and then complain that people are staying home to watch on TV because they’re addicted to phones and TV.
i guess you can complain about it, but to me you look like a fool and a hypocrite. Let’s blane the kids rather than acknowledging the game has changed and thus how and where people watch games has also changed. Meanwhile, in 2000 you could get a gopher season ticket for 100 bucks upper deck endzone....today the cheapest season ticket would cost 148 adjusted for inflation....I guess I can get a digital ticket deal for 199 and go watch Maryland.
Someone replied to his speech by saying yea--if you coaches didnt make so much money tickets would be cheaper and students could afford to come to games.
The last time I went to Evanston I get in for five bucks and moved down to the 40 yard line at the start of the second quarter. Very cheap experienceSomeone replied to his speech by saying yea--if you coaches didnt make so much money tickets would be cheaper and students could afford to come to games.
The last time I went to Evanston I get in for five bucks and moved down to the 40 yard line at the start of the second quarter. Very cheap experience
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True but I'm just saying it's not an issue thereThe question wasn’t specific to northwestern. It was about how across all of college footballs attendance is down
More like, "Don't stumble into my fence because you're walking while staring into your phone".
The phone zombie phenomenon is depressing to watch. <b>Fitzgerald's observation about people out at a restaurant and not interacting because they're all staring at their phones is all too true.
Sad.</b>
But I'm afraid this particular genie is never going back in the bottle.
Back to the issue of phones:
I attend a lot of HS athletic events. During time-outs, if I look in the stands, I would say almost every fan 50 or younger is staring at their phone - not interacting with each other.
and with younger people - let's say 25 and younger, it's getting to a point where you could arguably call it an addiction. these people literally cannot function without their phones. I work with a kid who is a couple of years out of college. he honestly spends the entire day staring at his phone -except for the rare times when he actually pays attention to his job.
it has changed society. I appreciate the information it can provide, but I also see the potentially negative impact of having people withdraw from human interaction and spend all day gazing into a 5" or 6" screen.
More like, "Don't stumble into my fence because you're walking while staring into your phone".
The phone zombie phenomenon is depressing to watch. Fitzgerald's observation about people out at a restaurant and not interacting because they're all staring at their phones is all too true.
Sad.
But I'm afraid this particular genie is never going back in the bottle.
Countless times I've seen people out together at a restaurant without phones not interacting...either staring at their food or just past each other.
Honest Question. Let’s assume the bolded is true. Why is that sad and wrong? If everyone at the table prefers it that way, why is that bad? We tend to decide something is wrong based on how we were taught. Doesn’t make it right. I think there needs to be two spaces after a period, but that is no longer how it is taught. Is that wrong or do times just change?
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