Remember when middle-class people could afford a ticket to the game?

Maybe it’ll become the custom that you only go once to a game as a child, like only once do you have to see the Grand Canyon or have a First Communion. It’s intriguing, for example, that although the National Football League is more popular than ever, the actual live attendance for NFL games has declined every year since 2007.

So it’s understood that going to a game to see a game isn’t sufficient anymore. You need that so-called experience. That means constant noise and lasers and bosomy cheerleaders and mascots shooting T-shirts into the crowd and massive scoreboards that tell you everything you need to know, except the price of concessions.

But not only that, sports promoters have to provide another sensation altogether. Besides giving you an experience at the stadium, they also have to make you feel like you’re still comfortably at home with a cheap beer, watching the game on TV, with replays and analysis and highlights of other games.