[Leica] F1 and soccer

[lrzeitlin at aol.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

<<Soccer and Formula One do not fit the current
USian paradigm:  either can be made to work here, but they need a far more
patient and developed business plan than either has yet produced.>>

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I agree about Formula 1 but not about soccer. F1 is BORING unless you are 
intimately familiar with the drivers and the car manufacturers. What is 
exciting about a race where Michael Schmacher wins most of the races, where 
the team in the lead at the start generally stays in front till the end, 
where the order of finishing for a team is predetermined by the driver's 
contracts, and where the cars have almost no relevance to those the average 
fan drives. Give me NASCAR with Chevrolets, Dodges and Fords. Where drivers 
are good old boys who are not above running competitors off the track, where 
the winning driver squirts champagne instead of drinking it. It's almost as 
exciting as driving in Boston.

Soccer, on the other hand, has almost made it in the US. Fox TV has a 
channel devoted primarily to soccer. You can watch a game almost any time, 
day or night on the foreign language TV stations. Liverpool winning the 
European championship had a TV audience in the US nearly as big as the 
average baseball game.

Remember, this is a country of Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads. F1 is nowhere to 
be found.

Larry Z