When I was in Milan, I was home killing time before bed, and I turned on the TV. The shows were all in Italian, of course, so finding something to watch was difficult, but I found a couple of soccer games. Those are something that can be understood without speaking the language. Both Inter Milan and AC Milan were playing games in the Champions League that night, but for some reason I could only find Inter on the TV. AC Milan was playing that night in the San Siro, and their game might possibly not be on the TV to encourage people to attend in person. Maybe they do things like they do in the NFL, where the local game isn't on TV unless it's a sellout?
Anyhow, what I did find surprised me. I found this:
That guy is the radio announcer for the game. They had a TV show where you could watch a locked down camera pointing at the radio announcer as he called the game. You couldn't watch the game itself...but you could watch the radio announcer talk about it. I was really surprised by that. Who would want to watch that? I can understand listening to it on the radio, but if you're going to watch TV of the game...you want to actually watch the game, right? Why would you watch someone else watching the game? If we're going to do that, I ought to take it another level and have a show of me watching this guy watching the game. Or maybe I could start a whole industry of YouTube content reacting to the guy reacting to the game.
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