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The PGA Tour might be onto something here.
In the past decade, creative media teams across all sports have really worked to give fans unprecedented access. That usually comes in the form of players and coaches being mic'd up for games, allowing for viewers to see and hear what goes on during the competition's biggest moments.
When it was introduced, the inside access was unprecedented. But like how a lot of things work in life, the shininess of "new thing" has worn off a bit. Now, having players and coaches hooked up with a microphone is almost
expected, so leagues are scrambling to try and figure out the next evolution of mic-ing up in sports.
The PGA Tour might have cracked the code.
What do you do when putting microphones on the athletes gets old? You put the mics on the
fans. Let's hear what the people who are paying their hard earned money to attend the sporting event have to say. The PGA Tour had that idea, and the results were magnificent.
Select fans sitting in the stands and by the greens at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee this past weekend were mic'd, and the video the golf league put together after it as all said and done was incredibly entertaining.
You'll have to watch the video below to see all the fan talk of world number ones and corn dogs versus hot dogs. Those little conversations were great, but the best part of the video was undoubtedly when a husband was trying to explain how golf holes work to his wife.
It went about as well as you'd imagine:
Husband: "Hole 14... all of this is 14. All of this."
Wife: "That's what I said, so that's what I mean when I say you got two."
Husband: "There ain't no two nothing."
Wife: "Well you got a tee down there, and this (green) goes with that tee right?"
Husband: "Yes, it's all part of the same hole."
Wife: "Right, so that's what I'm saying, both of these holes are 14."
Husband: "Yeah that's not how you say it. But technically, yes."
This might be recency bias, but I'd love to just have that specific couple mic'd up at various sporting events. But all in all, it was a really unique perspective into the event, and you can go ahead and expect other leagues and teams across the country to play copy cat.
The mic'd up fan just might be the next big thing:
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