… it’s another sport that America dominates. {{ LOL }}
We have farm clubs in almost every town.
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The Olympics is all, and only, about money. If I ran it, it would be track and field, only. No-one would watch. There would be little money. There would be little corruption.
Steve
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I liked how the horse riding in the men’s modern pentathlon was replaced with an American Gladiators-style obstacle course.
Apparently they told the Pentathlon Society that if they didn’t make it more appealing to viewers, they were going to dump it from the Olympics.
I think a Survivor-style scorpion eating contest would garner even better ratings.
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AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR JUNIOR | Paxton from Ninja Kidz TV Hangs on for the Win! - YouTube
There are many “obstacle courses” that would be entertaining to watch and fun for any age. I can’t wait for an Olympic overall champion to be only 9 years old.
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I am waiting for the Coffee Drinking competition. Now that is a sport I would be willing to watch.
Pickle Ball anyone? Almost as silly a name as Ping Pong. (I do love ping pong and watching champions play)
Maybe name it “Smaller Tennis” . . .
The local NBC affiliate (NBC covered the Olympics this year) noon “news” provided a very self-congratulating “report” on how great NBC’s ratings were.
In other advertising, dressed up as “news”, last week, the ABC national “news” provided a lengthy “report” on new attractions coming to Disney theme parks. ABC is owned by Disney.
Steve
That is something that might interest those considering a Disney park visit. It is not yet available, but you never know what will interest kids until they get to the age appropriate for each attraction.
Disney can buy time in advertising breaks. It’s not like ad time during the national news is hard to come by. About 10 minutes out of the 30 are advertising. In the second half of the program, the cadence is about 3 minutes of adverts, 30 seconds of content, another 3 minutes of adverts, another 30 seconds of content. I don’t know how long the “news” fawned over Disney. I turned the “news” off at 6:50, because I was not interested in wasting 10 minutes of my life watching advertising, dressed up as “news”.
Steve
Nothing new here.
Disneyland basically started in the 1950s as a TV show about Disney building the park
Mike
Yes, and it was a TV show, not being passed off as “news”.
Steve
Yes, including segments about how to use entry ramps onto the newly built “Freeways” (a Disney advised marketing name) to safely merge with traffic and so Take the Family to Disneyland!
Then after Disneyland opened they sold off the name of the show to the TV industry as “The Wonderful World of Color!”
Walt Disney was usually two decades ahead of his fellow JC’s.
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In Motown, they were called “expressways”. The roads around the newly built Willow Run airport, in 1941, all used merge/exit ramps, rather than intersections, to smooth the flow of traffic in and out of the B-24 plant that Ford Motor ran at the airport.
Here is a pic of the original road layout on the west side of the plant.
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I support pole dancing in the Olympics, if it would help get it out of the strip clubs, where I find it very annoying
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