Space Time and DVR

The author of this article talks about what live sports are like in comparison to recorded sports events when you’re rewatching them. You get much more excited when watching them live instead of running it back. There are 5 reasons why this happens. The first is with commercials, there is less drama and less of a cliffhanger. The second reason is that because its not happening live, the person watching gets out of touch with it being actually real because it already happened. The third reason is that the rewind and fast forward gives the person watching power over what they’re watching. They can fast forward to spoil what happens to release the drama. The fourth reason is that there’s no superstitions or anything the fans can do to get involved, because the events have already transpired. The last reason is that spoilers ruin the reason to even watch the sporting event.

I love football and my favorite college team is the University of Texas since I’m from Austin. I have friends who play for UT and opponents I played against in high school, such as Sam Ehlinger, the current quarterback. His mom is a good friend of my dads through work, so I got to witness first hand his whirlwind of popularity after his sophomore year in high school. I have a personal interest in many of the players on the team, either because I know them or have played against them, so I wanted to watch all of the games even though they had already passed. We had games on Saturdays so I would often miss the UT football games, but I would rewatch them.

My situation is different from a normal audience member watching sporting events. Even huge sporting events I’ll miss like the World Series or other events like that that I miss I won’t rewatch them, I’ll just watch the highlights. It’s different with UT however. Below is Sam’s Junior highlight film where he broke multiple records and beat my high school 77-3. We are often featured in that highlight video because he made us look terrible.

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/3185948/5721e5710dcb0d12f888ee6f