http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=a … ;type=lgns
That's a lot of damn money for wearing a freaking hat.
That's a lot of damn money for wearing a freaking hat.
Sports in general has gone too far with sponsorships and I feel the huge amounts of money involved often makes the Sport degrade in Quality. You can see that with Football (Soccer) and even in the current Cricket World Cup, money needs to be less important or more related to actually winning when it comes to Sport imo.
That's nuts.
Professional sports is not what it used to be. Now its just basically a big advertisement corporation.
An athlete can get paid more than what an average joe gets paid. The back up QB for the Colts gets paid 800 grand next year just for being a backup.
Soccer (football) player Beckhem gets paid a fortune to play now in LA.
There are no loyalties anymore, which ever team offers more money gets the best players.
oops, I went a little off topic here
An athlete can get paid more than what an average joe gets paid. The back up QB for the Colts gets paid 800 grand next year just for being a backup.
Soccer (football) player Beckhem gets paid a fortune to play now in LA.
There are no loyalties anymore, which ever team offers more money gets the best players.
oops, I went a little off topic here
Last edited by link52787 (2007-04-18 13:30:57)
Advertisments killed sports
Watch any professional sport and not only do comericals take up more time than playing but also there are adds built into the playing. It sukcs and is why I don't watch sports.
Watch any professional sport and not only do comericals take up more time than playing but also there are adds built into the playing. It sukcs and is why I don't watch sports.
Back to the original post, it sort of depends on who got the money. The money should go to Gatorade, they sponsored the team but aren't getting what they paid for, so they deserve compensation.
Equally, the NFL could have got vitaminwater to sponsor them, but are doing it for free, so that's compensation for potential loss of earnings. If that sounds like crap, an analogy is if you break your leg, you get compensation for lost earnings as you can't work.
Equally, the NFL could have got vitaminwater to sponsor them, but are doing it for free, so that's compensation for potential loss of earnings. If that sounds like crap, an analogy is if you break your leg, you get compensation for lost earnings as you can't work.
This just intensifies my dismay of American popularized sport. It seems, nowadays, that American sports - non college sports, that is - represent the 'pop' of its respective industry. They don't play for fun, or to improve - they play to get paid. It stifles the fun in any sport.
The USA, obviously, isn't the only country with this - but I've only seen it that bad there.
-konfusion
The USA, obviously, isn't the only country with this - but I've only seen it that bad there.
-konfusion
i believe that the size of the fine only promotes more advertising. ask yourselves how much publicity this fine will get/has gotten...and what the logo was on his hat? [/rhetorical question] have him do it 10 more times and it equals 30 seconds of superbowl time. imo: marketing genius
Reminds me of this article I read in Time the other day. It said that in a US Army fiscal document, it showed how much had been spent in some time range (I think 800 million). They had in comparison, "NY Yankee Payroll: 140 million".link52787 wrote:
Professional sports is not what it used to be. Now its just basically a big advertisement corporation.
An athlete can get paid more than what an average joe gets paid. The back up QB for the Colts gets paid 800 grand next year just for being a backup.
Soccer (football) player Beckhem gets paid a fortune to play now in LA.
There are no loyalties anymore, which ever team offers more money gets the best players.
oops, I went a little off topic here
That's the business. If you violate the contract, you get fined. These guys get paid so much that they should at least pay attention to the rules. If he was just drinking vitamin water, that'd be one thing, but the hat...
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-04-18 16:38:17)
And the Mets payroll is like 133m, Boston's is like 124m...Hurricane wrote:
Reminds me of this article I read in Time the other day. It said that in a US Army fiscal document, it showed how much had been spent in some time range (I think 800 million). They had in comparison, "NY Yankee Payroll: 140 million".link52787 wrote:
Professional sports is not what it used to be. Now its just basically a big advertisement corporation.
An athlete can get paid more than what an average joe gets paid. The back up QB for the Colts gets paid 800 grand next year just for being a backup.
Soccer (football) player Beckhem gets paid a fortune to play now in LA.
There are no loyalties anymore, which ever team offers more money gets the best players.
oops, I went a little off topic here
I think it's baseball as a whole.