When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
- d.
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
- d.
Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value?
Fred
2009/8/14 Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net:
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value?
Historical, frequently. I believe our coverage of American football on en:wp is quite extensive.
It's that they feel they can take such an openly hostile attitude to their own customers.
- d.
They are happy with fans exactly insofar as they yield profit. But they also need to protect what they get from other fans. Hence no sharing unless it leads to more total spending. If they could figure out how to charge fans for remembering the game (or the logo or the mascot or the faces of their fellow fans), they would.
I hope no one still confuses an organization's being organized as a not-for-profit corporation with its not being run for profit.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/14 Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net:
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value?
Historical, frequently. I believe our coverage of American football on en:wp is quite extensive.
It's that they feel they can take such an openly hostile attitude to their own customers.
- d.
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David Gerard wrote:
2009/8/14 Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net:
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value?
Historical, frequently. I believe our coverage of American football on en:wp is quite extensive.
It's that they feel they can take such an openly hostile attitude to their own customers.
It's a pretty common attitude at the highest levels of sport where so much is tied to contests as media properties. Similar issues have come up in football (soccer), baseball, basketball, and golf - to mention only those where I know of specific instances off the top of my head. Anybody want to send me up the road to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics next year?
--Michael Snow
2009/8/14 Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net:
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value?
Historical, frequently. I believe our coverage of American football on en:wp is quite extensive.
It's that they feel they can take such an openly hostile attitude to their own customers.
- d.
They are called fans, and nobody in show business likes them much.
Fred
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