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Date Posted: 01:24:19 01/31/03 Fri
Author: Jonathan
Subject: Re: THE SUPER BOWL
In reply to: Anton Spivack 's message, "Re: THE SUPER BOWL" on 14:33:33 01/27/03 Mon

I hadn't thought of it from that angle, I guess advertising is a huge element that is considered in sports.

I'm into cycling a little, it's such a different sport, mostly a European thing though certainly not exclusively. I think it's great. The riders still make a decent amount especially the better ones, but not nearly that of say football players. There's the sense that they're there for the fun of it, crowds of people line the roads cheering them on. I think there is still a bit of a tendency to do things to make the sponsors happy, like if you can't win a race try to show off in some other way. The French rider Laurent Jalabert road in a very flashy way in 2002 Tour De France giving him the lesser title of King of the Mountains, though he didn't stand a chance of winning the race overall. On the last day he was riding a new bicycle that his sponsors gave him and painted on the side it said "Thanks Jaja." (Jaja is his nick-name)





>I got this from an anti-tv website,
>http://www2.localaccess.com/hardebeck/killtv6.htm
>
>"I am a huge sports fan, and I agree that TV is the
>only way that a lot of people can attend a game. But I
>am also convinced that TV has done moreto hurt amateur
>and professional sports than anything else. Listen to
>some of the major complaints that sports fans have
>today: The athletes are over-paid crybabies who don't
>love the game as much as their big-money contracts;
>ticket prices are outrageous; the games are too
>commercial now; etc. Why do you think all these things
>have happened? It is because sports are controlled by
>the advertisers and the networks, who are out to make
>money. Ultimately, who pays for the multi-million
>dollar contracts and the new stadiums? The fans pay -
>in their taxes, their ticket purchases, but mostly,
>they pay in the form of over-priced goods which are
>advertised on TV during the games.
>
>You may hate the greed and commercialism in sports
>today, and you may think there is nothing you can do
>about it. But each time you turn on the TV and watch a
>game, the ratings go up, and you are sending a little
>message to the networks, the advertisers and the team
>owners that it is OK for them to take the sport down
>the road it is going."
>
>They didn't really have much to support their claim.

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