Crap? Naive? Hardly. True, we as of present don't have a guy who by himself 75 million in hand at the time (Maurice Gibb might have and perhaps could have done so, but regrettably we don't have him anymore.) , but collectively as much has been put in or in a couple of years will be, and as to anyone at a glance still yet for naught. The point of it being that with motivation, some funding, and most of all competence and clear goal orientation ANYTHING, YES ANYTHING can be put on TV and in front of the public and they'll take it. It's pretty darned obvious that the American public will gobble up whatever is given to them. Look at most of today's TV programming: unoriginal garbage, but in a cool enough package to sell. Plastic surgery. Britney Spears. Pokemon. Sponge Bob Squarepants. NASCAR. American Idol. How many examples of utter moronity and total lack of substance do you need to realize that even the utterly miserable when well marketed make billions? WTF is next, an animated pickled broccoli? Now if all that can be done with total garbage, why not one of the most fun and photogenic sports on Earth?
As for someone's needing to play a sport to identify with it on TV, what percentage of people who watch NFL or MLB on TV or at the stadium play either? Not a large number at all. Golf is probably the #1 viewed sport by people who also happen to play it, and still yet even many, many more people recognize the more popular names from it. NASCAR fans obviously don't at all emulate their heroes: immediately after an event, they don't get in the car and drive 180 mph home, but something like 10 mph
I think someone should exploit that market by selling see-thru washing machine lids so that they can watch identical action without having to sit through commercial breaks.
It's the defeatist attitudes that get us nowhere, but then if you're content to go nowhere then enjoy sitting in the shade, I won't waste my time dragging you. I'm making quite good money off of paintball photography at even the small market fields, so don't tell me it can't be done.
