Fans paid to watch boring National Championship media day

College football fans are so excited about Monday’s National Championship that they paid to watch Saturday’s media day.

With the National Championship between Ohio State and Oregon just two days away, media and some fans flocked to Saturday’s media day session. For the fans, they had to pay to get in to watch something more boring than watching paint dry.

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The $17 admission allowed patrons to get an earpiece with five radio channels. Those different channels had various interviews of OSU and Oregon players and coaches. However, the event only lasted one hour and no one said anything groundbreaking or new. The players and coaches offered up very little that the media didn’t know about.

I understand that fans may want to attend the media day instead of the actual game due to the major price difference. However, the game is 1,000 times better and more interesting than media day. Anything is possible during an actual competition, but most media days are highly scripted and the expected happens. Yes, sometimes a player or coach says something they shouldn’t, but both sides in this case have been directed by their respective public relations teams on what they can say and what not to say.

At the same time, 17 dollars isn’t a lot of money to throw down for something, but it is for an event that only lasts an hour. Yet, I guess these fans have nothing else better to do on their weekend leading up to the game than sit in a building and watch players and coaches talk to the media. I guess they are a fan of fancy cameras and reporters doing their job. If they want to do that, why not just sit in your house and watch ESPN all day. Likewise, most of the time the players aren’t being interviewed by the media, rather they are playing on their phones like the teenagers some of them are.

All in all, it’s amazing that fans think it’s worth $17 to watch their team be interviewed. I guess it’s the next best thing when you can’t afford the tickets at AT&T Stadium for the National Championship Game. Hopefully, Monday’s game will be more interesting and exciting than both the 2014 Rose Bowl and Saturday’s media day combined or else there will be some angry fans in attendance asking for a refund and those watching will quickly grab for their remote to change to something else on tv.

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