Overpriced stadium food is standard at big-time sporting events. If you get hungry, expect to fork over $7 for a hot dog. It’s annoying. It’s also simple economics: Inside a stadium, there’s no competition bringing prices down, so prices stay high. Sports fans are trapped in a captive market.
That’s usually the end of the story. But the Atlanta Falcons are trying something different. They’ve lowered prices. It could change the way stadium economics works.
Today on the show: We send two reporters down to Mercedes-Benz Stadium to eat their way through a radical experiment.
Wyoming Black 14 Football Players Protest against Mormon Racism
Directed by Darius Clark Monroe and executive produced by Spike Lee, this documentary short tells the story of what happened when a group of college athletes decided to protest a long-standing racial injustice.
Lloyd Eaton was the Wyoming coach
The Team That’s Smart Enough to Beat the Patriots
During the Super Bowl, there will be two unusual voices talking in Doug Pederson’s headset.
.. These people are the middle men between Philadelphia’s analytics side and the coaches on the field.
.. “There’s a belief from a lot of the football people that some of the analytics or quantitative people lack the necessary football IQ,”
“In a lot of cases, they don’t trust these guys.”
.. The Eagles’ decision making has drawn praise this season and for good reason: They converted on 17 fourth downs, the most in the NFL during the regular season.
.. Pederson has a security blanket when he makes bold bets. He knows he has support from the person that controls his fate. Earlier this year, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie praised that line of thought and said “smarter teams do it that way.”
.. All of Philadelphia’s five touchdowns in the NFC Championship were scored by players who weren’t on the team a season ago.
U.S. troops can watch NFL championship games, with AFN deemed ‘essential’
American military personnel will be able to watch the NFL’s conference championship games Sunday despite the government shutdown, thanks to a new designation concerning the American Forces Network.
On Sunday morning, with the NFL scrambling to supply the games to troops overseas, the Department of Defense designated TV and radio broadcasts the AFN, whose key personnel were to be furloughed by the shutdown, “essential activities.”
.. the comptroller and legal team were able to turn on a channel based on operational necessity and because funds had already been paid on the contract.