RE: ADSactly Sports - The sports money machine: Are fans getting left out in the cold?
Sport has become so commercialised that they have literally tried to monetize everything they can get their hands on! Before a fan just paid for his seat and watched the game and bought a jersey to support his team
Now it’s selling naming rights to stadiums, image rights of players, shirt sponsors, training kit sponsors, streaming and pay per view deals, international tv syndication deals, merchandise and memorabilia, stadium tours, team tours, sponsored preseason tournaments and the lists goes on I’m sure there’s more that I’ve missed
Players are still treated like hero’s by fans that relationship hasn’t changed but sports franchises have! They treat players like commodities and the fans the same! They act as if they brought us together and therefore need to be rewarded obscene amounts of money for it! People were watching sports Long before this game along when the players were still part time workers and it wasn’t a viable career
I really feel like there should be more transparency in sport but I’m not really sure how we even get there! Never the less it’s not going to stop me from supporting my teams lol I guess I’m a sucker like that
You are absolutely right. The goal for teams and leagues is to absolutely maximize profits and monetize everything. If they think they can put a dollar value on it then they will. So much of it is advertising and promotional budgets. Between that and the media component, the numbers are unreal. Thank you for the great original comment!!!
can you provide a link to this comment you claim I copied from? Would be interesting and really creepy if it was a word for word match because I swear I didn't copy it from anywhere!
Oh wait nevermind i see it now!
That dude copied my comment! Not sure how he even got upvotes for it thats weird. I tried to go onto Steemd to see if i could find a time stamp or something to prove that its my comment since the were both posted on 7 hours, guess he copied it immediately when he saw it.
You are right, I was just able to find the time stamp. You were 7 minutes before him. His came first in my cue. I will fix the comment to you. Thanks for the great original comment.
No problem, you're post was really interesting and something no one really speaks about much but its important. Im also passionate about sport so and you know how we sports fans get, always vocal
Sorry for the mix up. Copied comments are so frustrating and it sucks that someone took yours. Gave your comment my full upvote. Cheers
No problem, the first time its ever happened to me and yes it is frustrating! At least we got to the bottom of it in the end