Sure. I watch for the game. The crowd adds to the atmosphere a little on tv but I don’t tune in to watch crowd shots.

They are going to have to mute the players or put it on cable because we will hear all the language.

Good point. The crowd noise drowns out a LOT.
I will gladly watch whatever is on. I hope golf is first.

I’m a huge SF Giants fan and rarely miss a game. The two broadcasters, Kruk and Kuip (Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper affectionally known as Kruk and Kuip) both payed for the Giants, both are in their 60's and are best friends and like to have fun with the crowd. A year or two ago a fan in the upper deck botched catching a foul ball and it went to the lower deck. He was wearing a Duane Kuiper shirt, so during the commercial break, Kuiper grabbed a ball, went down and sat next to the fan and said “is this seat taken”. The fans jaw dropped. He handed the fan the ball and headed back to the broadcast booth before the end of the commercial break. Without the fans, the MLB won’t be the same. I don’t know how much I’ll watch and what about the Seahawks 12th man?

Yeah, gotta admit I will.

Sure. The sports I love and have watched for 22 years, MotoGP and WSBK, the riders aren’t going to care and battle for every inch of the track from the green light to the checkered flag. Sadly neither will start until August at the earliest, if they race at all. And my favorite rider, Valentino Rossi, is at the end of his career so 2020 will be sorely missed by me. VR|46

Never watched before the virus. So I'm not missing a thing. Lost interest in pro sports years ago mainly because of the arrogance of those involved.

Motor sports will make zero difference to me. Team sports would be pretty boring with no home field advantage. I can't imagine being interested in say watching the Chiefs playing in Arrowhead stadium with no crowd noise.

On tv? Doesn’t matter to me, but I don’t watch sports on tv much.

It can be electrifying to be in the stands during a game, though, if it’s a full house and the crowd is invested.
It’d be a real shame if that doesn’t return. I’m glad I got my kid to as many games as we could so he could “feel” the crowd.

Yes. I watch baseball game reruns. I did watch on TV a European soccer league match shortly before they shut everything down with empty stands. Not only did it look strange, it sounder stranger with the lonely echoes of whistles stirring high up in the stands... But we'll get used to it until we can fill up the stands again.

Obviously, for some sports, the crowd matters more than others, e.g. college football vs. motor racing. I’m starting to feel a bit confident that some sort of football season will occur; no idea what form it will take. Personally, I think we need to accelerate the return to normalcy. I understand that it’s unlikely things will be they way they were before, but this can’t go on.

The only sport I watch, if I watch any, is golf and the gallery has little effect on the game.

I said "doubtful" earlier but to clarify I would initially at least see what it looks like.
I detest the shows that have converted an episode to those "isolated" or "quarantined" version where one part is talking from a "webcam" view.
I almost always turn the channel and will do the same if sports are like that.
No NEW NORMAL for me.

I'll listen to baseball on radio or stream audio from mlb.com. I haven't watched regularly in years.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
I'll listen to baseball on radio or stream audio from mlb.com. I haven't watched regularly in years.

This is how I 'watch' most games too. A big part of the experience is the crowd reaction. Luckily it's on local radio broadcast for me though.

No!

But then I don't watch sports anyway!

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Originally posted by holdem:
Whatever your sport, will you watch it if there is no one in attendance?

Anyone who watches 75% of NCAA College Football Bowls has already done this, multiple times.

Those early weekday "George Costanza Cheese Bowls" pretty much only have player's family in attendance.

Most crappy sitcoms play with laugh tracks, simulating an audience reaction that never happened.

Maybe sports broadcasts will do the same thing, and provide old/recorded crowd noise, orchestrated by staff to correspond with the action on the field.

I listen to baseball on the radio so I would watch it on tv for certain.

I'm mixed but leaning toward a no.

Even when my favorite team is on the road and I listen on the radio or stream the audio, I can't see the game and it still holds me. The one caution is that on away games, the roar of the crowd build the moment, the play, the save and every part of the game that makes in enjoyable.

Players feed off fans and you can't duplicate that in a sterile environment. I would still listen but know I'm getting a santized product that I wouldn't thoroughly like.