Shaka Hislop
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as a comparison or as a percentage, it becomes lesser and lesser.
And it takes away from that fan experience.
So as those TV rights revenues grow, can't you keep those prices a little more reasonable so the true fan who has traveled halfway across the world to see their team, probably thinking their team is only going to be playing three games in this tournament, can't you make that reasonable?
more accessible to them.
No.
So I've never experienced a Fan Fest myself.
But in 2006, my wife and kids went to Ghibli.
The Fan Fest were free.
Now, Trinidad and Tobago, we were out in the group stage.
As a team, we went back to Trinidad.
I did come back to Germany for the latter stages of the tournament, but at this point, everybody's gone.
The vast majority.
And my wife speaks about that fan fest in the most glowing of terms.
Now, well, certainly in 2006, 32 teams in the tournament.
The vast majority of them
If they get to the group stage, that's a bonus.
They're there for the experience, right?
In any World Cup, you have eight, maybe ten teams who think we might get to semifinal, five or six, maybe we get to final.
Everybody else is just there for the experience.
And my wife talks about going to the Fan Fest, walking, and