Hockey teams do it on the glass. The Toronto Raptors super impose a sign on the baseline.

Why don't the Cubs super impose billboards. Above the last rows in the bleachers. Granted, it's only TV viewers seeing it, not the 30k in the ball park so they won't be able to bill as much. Still, it's something until they fight through the legalities of putting up actual billboards. I'm sure it would be worth tens of millions per season. They could probably get 8 to 10 different signs for sponsors. Hell, they could super impose on the vines as well.

It takes me to figure this out? Nobody with the Cubs can think of this? It's so simple and there can't be a law against this. You're not doing anything to the stadium.

They could do this and still agree to the deal with the roof top owners where they would put up billboards behind their seats. So that's more money.

Yeah. Why do the Raptors just put their team name in that space. Why not a sponsor? It's so stupid. That space would be worth a lot of money cuz you see it all game long. They could rotate different sponsors.

You can't put an advertisement on the baseline. It's actually just a camera trick.


That's how it's applied.

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Why would the NBA impose such a rule? No ads on the baseline? Why? Why would you limit your teams revenue streams? That's dumb.

It probably has to do with naming rights having exclusivity on the playing surface and also David Stern having some vestigial shred of decency. Stop RPing as Dan Bernstein.

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But they have rotating ads at mid court. The NBA can do what they want. A super imposed banner like the one we see in Toronto is no different than the rotating ads at the mid court scorers table. They're both off the court. Only difference is you would see the baseline ad more cuz it would always be in the picture. Baseball has this behind home plate. It would be the same thing.

Really? I'm sure they could super impose ads, though. Blackhawks do it on the glass behind the net. They super impose the 1st down line in the NFL.

I'm bringing it up cuz Ricketts spoke today and he was crying about restrictions on his park.

Ironically, tried to find such an example of what Beardown is talking about as they do it in Tennis and it pops up with a Cubs Billboard....right over a building I was trying to buy for 6 months! Yeah it's a shithole!

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