Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The day of the Super Bowl we were in Ireland. Ireland teams were playing rugby and soccer games during the day. I watched both games and loved how fast everything moved. The Super Bowl came on late that night. I found myself turning it off before halftime. Way too many timeouts and commercials compared to Euro sports. It looked so stupid and meaningless. I ended up cleaning Leicas at 12:30am. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay" Subject: RE: [Leica] The United States Grand Prix - this is a long post > Quite a few years ago, I was a shooter for ESPN doing behind the scenes for > boxing and got to sit with Greenberg (spelling?) then a honcho with the > group. > I was an avid soccer player in Calif and wondered why soccer with the > largest audience fan base in the world could not make a go of it in the > States. > I was told that since soccer is played with no time outs - it is continuous > for 45 minutes with breaks only for injuries, that networks could not see a > way to advertise during a game. In spite of most foreign TV being able to > run ads around the periphery of the image, US networks felt that there was > no way to make money. > And advertising is where the nets generate their revenue. > With the current interest slowly but surely increasing here in the States, > maybe it is time to rethink? > > Jay Ignaszewski