Things are looking worse for college football. It started with the bowl games being renamed to include corporate sponsers e.g. Nokia Sugar Bowl and The Rose Bowl by AT&T, but, for those of the opinion that this is bad, sponsership has hit a new low
As a devout Michigan fan and college football enthusiast I am disappointed. It shouldnt affect the fans since they will still refer to the game as just UM-OSU, but it will be annoying to hear tv personalities call it the SBC Michigan-Ohio State Classic.
Well i guess UofM needs to raise funds for their next stadium expansion somehow.
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Well, that's not so bad. It could be the Preparation H Cup or the Vagisil Tournament of Champions.
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I've been kinda wondering how long it'll be until all sports teams of any sort get to be like nascar. Having people running down a basketball court that has a bunch of tampon ads on the ground as they dribble a ball with trojan condoms logo stickers on it as they go for the score dunking the ball into the basket that has a backboard with ads for playboy magazine.
Yay.. Way to take a **** all over the traditional Mich/Ohio st. match-up.
It's only a matter of time before they get their hands on other rivalries (YAHOO SEARCH ENGINE proudly Presents: USC/UCLA!!!!!!!!!). And NFL stadiums are going to hell as well.
Vensuvio: It wont be long now. MLB already allowed Spiderman logos on bases which opens up the possibility to add more **** all over the field.
It's only a matter of time before they get their hands on other rivalries (YAHOO SEARCH ENGINE proudly Presents: USC/UCLA!!!!!!!!!). And NFL stadiums are going to hell as well.
Vensuvio: It wont be long now. MLB already allowed Spiderman logos on bases which opens up the possibility to add more **** all over the field.
I haven't watched any sports much ever really since it mostly seems like a big corporate joke, since the teams seem to be made up by simply paying people huge amounts to lure in better players in a system that makes rich citys have better players than citys that don't end up paying as much. But hearing they even have ads on the bases in baseball makes the big sports teams thing just seem more ridiculous. Though I guess we can always try taking bets as to how many feminine products will be advertised on a single football players back.
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haven't watched any sports much ever really since it mostly seems like a big corporate joke, since the teams seem to be made up by simply paying people huge amounts to lure in better players in a system that makes rich citys have better players than citys that don't end up paying as much
Yeah but this has to do with college football.
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haven't watched any sports much ever really since it mostly seems like a big corporate joke, since the teams seem to be made up by simply paying people huge amounts to lure in better players in a system that makes rich citys have better players than citys that don't end up paying as much
Yeah but this has to do with college football.
I know but seems like there is getting to be less and less diffrence between college and major football. Hell I remember hearing of people giving serious thought to putting ads on fire trucks and ambulances in Houston, TX. I don't see much diffrence between someone slapping an ad on a college football player rather than a major league player.
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I don't see much diffrence between someone slapping an ad on a college football player rather than a major league player.
College athletes are not alowed to profit off of their athletic ability and professional athletes are. No one is allowed to profit off of the image of a college athlete either. The NCAA has held fast on this area and i hope that they continue to do so, but they let it go too far with these sponsored games.
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College athletes are not alowed to profit off of their athletic ability and professional athletes are. No one is allowed to profit off of the image of a college athlete either. The NCAA has held fast on this area and i hope that they continue to do so, but they let it go too far with these sponsored games.
Learn something new everyday I guess. Its always seemed like if the colleges are really going into making money selling tickets and video of the game or whatnot that things are going to end up going downhill though and I guess I figured it probably had already happened. Guess we'll have to wait a few years to have rules about college sports change so things can get more kooky.
There is nothing saying that the college cannot profit, merely the players. I don't think you'll see a rule change anytime soon.
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I'm just keeping my fingers crossed to have more commercialization in college sports so that the texas longhorns can have ads from dominos about their buffalo wings.
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Ugh, and I'm a Cubs fan.
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