"Going Off The Grid" is a weekly survey of sports execs and personalities offering their thoughts on a handful of pressing (and trivial) issues in sports and pop culture. This week, our panelists look into the future of season ticket sales and the new meat alternative craze.
- A-B InBev VP/Partnerships, Beer Category & Community Nick Kelly
-- Was an extra in the movie "We Are Marshall."
- Drone Racing League Chief Partnerships Officer Bryce Townsend
-- Has never had a drop of coffee in his life.
- Prodigy Search Partner Mark Gress Jr.
-- Got cut from his high school golf team four years in a row.
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Traditional season-ticket sales in 10 years? |
Number of TVs during football games |
J-Lo & Shakira's SB Halftime Show will be... |
Number of subscription services you pay for |
Thoughts on Impossible Burgers/Beyond Meat? |
 Kelly |
Important, but will look nothing like today
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Two and a tablet
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Electric
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8
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Two years from "fad" or "forever"
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 Townsend |
Nothing about them will be traditional
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One projector will do, along with my phone
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Fuego
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More and more until Disney ingeniously bundles them all
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I'll give them a shot
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 Gress |
Less vital. Ticket departments will look much different
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Two + a mobile device. One used to keep kids/wife happy
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Less than 5 but that could be growing
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Don't eat burgers enough to substitute, but cow > lab grown
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