Re: Re: Re: Re: Some reasons...
You let it go? You let it go? Jesus, that was fkin good of you. I am bleedin relieved.
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QUOTE]Originally posted by Baca Loco
Pumping up pball like the NFL is indeed laughable at this stage
So you believe that at some stage it will be?
but so once upon a time was trying to start a football league when everyone knew America's pastime was baseball which was already established and dominant.
You are comparing watching and playing paintball with Soccer? And comparing the future of paintball with the impact soccer has had in the US.
However, if you went in and said pball could have an audience similar to Arena Football you'd be working in a viable ballpark for consideration and development. Arena football is played indoors with fewer players, modified rules and now has--after around 15 years--two leagues, is on TV in local markets and on cable sports and home teams typically draw 2K-10K spectators.
Ok. Paintball will attract 10,000 spectators for a game. How will they know what's going on? Will they appreciate the skill? Will they stick around long enough to understand it? What kind of audiences is it currently pulling?
Ticket prices are reasonable and player salaries are not huge and it works.
These 10,000 people will pay to watch? On a one-off basis? Will the players enjoy this as a fulltime profession?
Will it ever be as big as the bigtime sports? No, but that's not even close to the point. The point is, with a workable television friendly format and location based teams that can build local support it stands a chance to reach beyond the regular core audience of other players.
Alright. Not NFL - I though I'd read summat about family viewing and national stadiums. I'll go with this. What research have you got to suggest that tens of thousands of people across the US will turn out week-in, week out to watch the local team play a sport that if you don't play yourself is impossible to appreciate.
And actually the only reason some of the extreme sports over here get air time has less to do with actual participants than it does with the demographics of those participants and the fact that over time those involved have been able to introduce the 'flavor' of the youth-oriented lifestyle to the general public.
Have you read that on one of our internal memos? Yep. That and the fact that every kid in the country has a skateboard, and within two seconds of reading this can be off down the street on it.... on their own, at no cost and without Mum's permission.
As pball's participating class skews younger and younger truly intelligent and determined marketing efforts can move pball into the same realm of perception. [/QUOTE]
I truly hope so.
So, we can count on your support.
Dream on. (That's me being facetious.)
Thing is baca, I read your posts with the same degree of incredulity as you do mine. But.... as Sup says, I shouldn't be bringing it down.
What is my objective? Well, I think I should be allowed a view, and I think I've posted this view far less than you and yours. Objective? I'm not really sure....
