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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 1556259, member: 204"] No disrespect to you, but I suspect that you don't really watch football just to watch football. If two teams wearing all black and all white with no names on the back of the jerseys and no program rosters were to play a game in the Carrier Dome I suspect that you would not show up simply because you had the desire to just watch some football. We watch because of the context of the game - or the vast majority of us do. I remember when the NFL players were on strike and they split into two teams and held a game at RFK Stadium. And nobody came to watch. That's because it meant nothing and had no context - no loyalties - no identification. It was just a bunch of players out there in generic and meaningless uniforms. Branding, context, tradition are not "minor" things at all. They are what makes the competition attractive. [/QUOTE]