I live for the day the XTL (extreme track league) becomes reality.
Lap-dancing in the stands? Jacuzzi water jump? It could happen.
malmo
>Mr. Oti wrote:
><<...because it took 4 hours to show a game consisting
of 1 hour pure playing time, and 3 hours for shots of bulky players
milling around aim
Tom expressed some good ideas regarding selling T&F as entertainment. But I
would emphasize that the entertainment must stay focussed around the sport.
Thus the ideas about instant replay and educated announcing are great.
But we need only look at the dismal showing of the recent XFL joke to see
Kudos to Tom.
No truer words have been written, lately.
Not an easy task, but these extras need to be added. The number US sport has
added them and so should the lesser sports. Right or wrong, good or bad we
are a society of nanosecond attentions. One blip of down time and you run
the risk of
In a message dated Wed, 21 Feb 2001 9:26:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Conway Hill"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<< If that US meet announcer gave the field event measurement in metrics AND THEN
gave the corresponding feet and inches ... Over time Joe Sixpack would learn the
conversions witho
Garry wrote: You betcha! And I think that the movie industry should stop catering to all those incompetent monolingual Americans and quit subtitling or dubbing movies. If you want to watch "Crouching Tiger," learn Chinese dammit, just like the bulk of the people in the world.OK, a ham-handed analog
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> OK, a ham-handed analogy, but Darrell, get serious. As you HSI people so
well know, we're in the entertainment business here, and no entertainment I
can think of has ever been successful that requred "educating the masses."
>
> Entertainmen
That is nonsense Garry.
Metric measurements are not the reason for the dire straits of track.
Are you telling me that the US is so great that the rest of the world can
adjust to American football yardage, but we cannot adjust to a sport that
uses metrics? That is the type of arrogance that is ho
In a message dated Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:03:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< What does 17 meters mean to the public? It means what we tell them. It
incumbent upon us as track insiders to educate the masses.>>
You betcha! And I think that the movie industry should stop
